The Kindness of Strangers Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[C][Am][G][F][G]

[Verse 1]
[C]They found Mary Bellows
[Am]cuffed to the bed[Dm]
With a rag in her mouth
[G]and a bullet in her head
[F]Oh poor [G]Mary [Am]Bello[C]ws[G]

[Verse 2]
She'd [C]grown up hungry,
she'd [Am]grown up poor
She [Dm]left her home [G]in Arkansas
[F]Oh [G]poor [C]Mary [G]Bellows

[Verse 3]
[C]She wanted to see the dee[Am]p blue sea[C]
[F]She traveled acr[G]oss Ten[F]nessee
Oh poor [G]Mary [C]Bellows[G]

[Verse 4]
[C]She met a man alo[Am]ng the way
[Dm]He introduced himself as R[G]ichard Slade[F]
Oh [C]poor [G]Mary Bellows
[C][G]

[Verse 5]
[C]
Poor Mary thought that she [Am]might die
[Dm]When she saw the ocean
[G]for the first [F]time
Oh poor [G]Mary [C]Bellows[G]

[Verse 6]
[C]She checked into a c[Am]heap little pla[C]ce
[F]Richard Slade carried in [G]her old sui[F]tcase
Oh [G]poor Mary[Am][G]
[C]Bellows
[G]

[Verse 7]
[C]
"I'm a good girl, sir", [Dm]she said [Am]to him
[Dm]I couldn't possibly permit y[G]ou in[F]
Oh poor [G]Mary [C]Bellows[G]

[Verse 8]
[C]Slade tipped his hat [Am]and winked his eye
[C]And tur[Dm]ned away wit[G]hout goo[F]dbye
Oh poor [G]Mary Bel[C]lows[G]

[Verse 9]
She [C]sat on her bed [Am]and thought of home
With [G]the sea [F]breeze whi[G]stling all alo[F]ne
Oh [G]poor Mary Bel[C]lows
[G]

[Verse 10]
[C]
In hope and loneliness
[Am]she crossed the floor
[Dm]And undid the latch on h[G]er front door[F]
Oh [G]poor Mary [C]Bellows[G]

[Verse 11]
[C]They found her the next day
cuffed [Am]to the bed
[Dm]The rag in her mouth and a
[G]bullet in her head
[F]Oh [G]poor Mary [C]Bellows[G]

[Verse 12]
[C]So mothers keep your gir[Am]ls at home
[Dm]Don't let them journey all a[G]lone
[C]Tell them this world is [Am]full of dang[F]er[Am]
[Dm]And to shun the comp[D]any of s[G]trangers
[F]Oh poor Mary [G]Bellows
Oh [C]poor Mary [F]Bel[G]lows[C]