|
B
- |
C Oh Polly, Pretty Polly, would you take me
unkind? (x2) C G C You just sit beside me and tell me you’re
mine. |
|
J
- |
Well,
my mind is to marry and never to part. (x2) The first time I saw you, you wounded my heart |
|
B
- |
Oh
Polly, Pretty Polly, come and go along with me. (x2) Before we get married some pleasure we’ll see. |
|
L
- |
Well,
he led her over mountains and valleys so deep. (x2) Polly mistrusted and then began to weep. |
|
J
- |
Saying
Willie, Little Willie, I’m afraid of your ways. (x2) The way you’ve been rambling, you’ll lead me
astray. |
|
B
- |
Well
Polly, Pretty Polly, your guess is about right. (x2) I dug on your grave the best part of last
night. |
|
L
- |
Well,
he led her a little farther, and what did she spy, (x2) A new-dug grave, with a spade lying by. |
|
L
- J
- |
She
knelt down before him pleading for her life. (x2) Let me be a single girl if I can’t be your
wife. |
|
B
- |
Oh Polly, Pretty Polly that never can be. (x2) Your
past reputation's been trouble to me. |
|
L
- |
Then he opened up her bosom as white as any snow. (x2) Stabbed
her through the heart, and the blood did overflow. |
|
L
- B
- |
He
went to the jailhouse and what did he say. (x2) I killed Pretty Polly and tried to get away. |