Tom: Bm
D G D G
D A D A2
On a Saturday night all the girls run free
Bm F#m Bm F#m
Singing "bury me not on the lone prairie"
D A D Esus
But where do you go when you finish broken-hearted?
A F# Bm
E|--ba| ck to the dust where you started
[Verse 1]
D G A F#
Jenny cut her teeth in a mid-west shack
Bm G A F#
As a shantytown girl on the wrong end of the tracks
Bm G A F#
Her mama taught her everything she'd need to get along
Bm G F#sus F#
And her Sunday School teacher taught her right and wrong
A G
Raised to be respectable but born to be poor
Bm Bm/D Em F# F#
It was all she'd ever known but she figured there was more
Bm G A F#
When she came of age Jenny made herself a vow
Bm G F#sus F# F# F#
"I'm gonna get out and I don't care how"
Bm G A2 F#7
Bm G A F#7
[Verse 2]
D G A F#
It appeared every Autumn on the courthouse lawn
Bm G A F#
And the leaves never fell till the carnival was gone
Bm G A F#
Michael was a barker for an arcade ride
Bm G F#sus F#
With a smooth-talk tongue and a wandering eye
A G
"Get your tickets here for the Halls O'Mirrors maze
Bm Bm/D Em F# F#
If you can't get out I know a couple ways"
Bm G A F#
He caught Jenny's eye but her thoughts looked down
Bm G F#sus F#
All she wanted was a ticket going out of that town
[Chorus]
F# F#
She cried, she cried,
Bm Bm G G
Oh how I wanna bury you
Bm Bm G A
Oh bury you and run away--done away
Bm Bm G A Bm
Oh how I wanna bury your memory
Em F# F#
Why don't you let me be?
Bm G A2 F#7
Bm G A A
[Verse 3]
D G A F#
Michael stole a kiss first then he whispered at last
Bm G A F#
"you're a little old-fashioned so forget about your past
Bm G A F#
These Bible belt folks think living is a sin
Bm G F#sus F#
So they all start dying from the day they're born again"
A A G G
And there atop the Ferris wheel the colours were a blur
Bm Bm/D Em F#
The morning said he loved her but she wasn't really sure
Bm G A F#
He made her promise not to leave until he came to get her
Bm G F#sus F#
She promised him but she should have known better
[Chorus]
F# F#
She cried, she cried,
Bm Bm G G
Oh how I wanna bury you
Bm Bm G A
Oh bury you and run away--done away
Bm Bm G A Bm
Oh how I wanna bury your memory
Em F# F#
Why don't you let me be?
Bm G A2 F#7
[Bridge]
Bm G A2 F#
Oh, Jenny...
C#m A B G#
C#m A B C#m7 B/D#
On a
E E Amaj7 Amaj7
train--stowaway
C#m C#m B B
Jesus loves you still and your mama wants you home
E E Amaj7 Amaj7
But oh bridges burn
C#m C#m B2 B2 G#
When you carry your shame and you think you can't return
[Chorus]
C#m C# A A
Oh how I wanna bury you
C#m C# A B
Oh bury you and run away--done away
C#m C# A B C#m
Oh how I wanna bury your memory
F# G# G# G# G#
[Verse 4]
C#m A B G#m
When they finally found her body on a cold dog day
C#m A B G#
It was in a cattle car buried in the hay
C#m A B G#m
A note in the pocket of her calico dress
C#m A G#m G#m
Said "I'm guilty as sin but I can't confess"
B2 B2 A2 A2
Once you know the truth you can hide it on a shelf
C#m C#m/E F# G#m G#m G#m G#m
But unless you bring it down you can't live with yourself
C#m A B2 G#m G#m G#m
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
C#m F#m G# G# G# G#
Jenny had a pistol in the other
[Outro]
D G D G
D A D A2
On a Saturday night all the girls run free
Bm F#m Bm F#m
Singing "bury me not on the lone prairie"
D A D Esus
But where do you go when you finish broken-hearted?
A F# Bm
Back to the dust where you started
