Jimmy Hendrix
The Wind Cries Mary

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After all the 

            
jacks are in t

     
heir boxes
             
And the clowns

           
 have all gone

    
 to bed
             
You can hear h

           
appiness stagg

         
ering on down 

the street
           
Footsteps dres

        
sed in red
            
And the wind w

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hispers Mary

          
A broom is dre

      
arily sweeping
             
Up the broken 

       
pieces of yest

erday's life
          
Somewhere a qu

       
een is weeping
           
Somewhere a ki

            
ng has no wife
            
And the wind c

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ries Mary

Solo Time (Same chord progression as the verses)

          
The traffic li

          
ghts turn blue

 tomorrow
             
And shine the 

           
emptiness down

       
 on my bed
             
The tiny islan

    
d sags downstr

eam
             
Cause the life

            
 that lived is

      
 dead
            
And the wind s

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creams Mary

          
Will the wind 

     
ever remember
           
The names it h

        
as blown in th

e past
             
With its crutc

           
h, its old age

          
, and its wisd

om
             
It whispers no

            
, this will be

        
 the last
            
And the wind c

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ries Mary

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