Chord/Tab song: Cross-Eyed Mary

Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 14:42:55 -0500
From: Brian Peters
To: [email protected]
Subject: TAB: j/jethro_tull/cross-eyed_mary.tab

Cross-Eyed Mary by Jethro Tull.
Writen By Ian Aderson. Found on the album Aqualung.

Transcribed by Brian Peters.

Cross-Eyed Mary

Intro:

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Nice Litte Flute Ditty. For Guitar It's something like this.

e ------------------------------
B -3/20-17-16-15--3/20-17-16-15- s the Robin Hood of Highgate -- helps the poor man get along.

SOLO:
[-----][Play Bridge Licks]
Hey
[Lick 2] [Lick 2] [Lick 2] [Lick 2]
[Lick 3] [Lick 3] [Lick 3]

e ------------------------------------------------
B ------------------------------------------------
G -6b-----6-8b-6-8b-6---6---------------8p6-------
D ----8-6-----------------8-6-8-8p6---6-----8p6---
A --------------------8-------------8-----------8-
E ------------------------------------------------

Verse 2/3:

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[Lick 4]
Laughing in the playground -- gets no kicks from little boys:
would rather make it with a letching grey.
[Lick 4]
Or maybe her attention is drawn by Aqualung,
who watches through the railings as they play.

Bridge 1/3:

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[Lick 2] [Lick 2]
Cross-eyed Mary, goes jumping in again.
[Lick 2] [Lick 2]
She signs no contract, but she always plays the game.
[Lick 3] [Lick 3]
Dines in Hampstead village, on expense accounted gruel,
[Lick 3] C D B
and the jack-knife barber drops her off at school.

Outro:

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[Em] Cross-eyed Mary
[C] [flute thingie]
[D] [guitar thingie G -11b11b11b11b11b11b11b- hit string hard]
[Am] [Bbm] [Em]
[Bb]oh Mar[C]y [D] ohhh[Em]h Cross-eyed Mary

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