6/8, tempo 60, Rock 12/8, harmonika A
D# Fm
1. Come over to the window, my little darling,
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I'd like to try to read your palm.
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I used to think I was some sort of gypsy boy,
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before I let you take me home.
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R. Now so long, Marianne, It's time that we began
Bb Bbsus4 Bb Bb7 Bb Bbsus4Bb Bb7 D# D#sus4 D#
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
D# Fm
2. Well you know that I love to live with you,
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but you make me forget so very much.
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I forget to pray for the angels
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and then the angels forget to pray for us.
D# Cm
R. Now so long, Marianne, It's time that we began
Bb Bbsus4 Bb Bb7 Bb Bbsus4Bb Bb7 D# D#sus4 D#
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
D# Fm
3. We met when we were almost young
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deep in the green lilac park,
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you held on to me like I was a crucifix
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as we went kneeling through the dark.
D# Cm
R. Now so long, Marianne, It's time that we began
Bb Bbsus4 Bb Bb7 Bb Bbsus4Bb Bb7 D# D#sus4 D#
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
D# Fm
4. Your letters they all say that you're beside me now
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then why do I feel so alone.
C# G#
I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
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is fastening my ankle to a stone.
D# Cm
R. Now so long, Marianne, It's time that we began
Bb Bbsus4 Bb Bb7 Bb Bbsus4Bb Bb7 D# D#sus4 D#
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
D# Fm
5. For now I need your hidden love,
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I'm cold as a new razor blade.
C# G#
You left when I told you I was curious
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I never said that I was brave.
D# Cm
R. Now so long, Marianne, It's time that we began
Bb Bbsus4 Bb Bb7 Bb Bbsus4Bb Bb7 D# D#sus4 D#
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
D# Fm
6. Oh, you are really such a pretty one,
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I see you've gone and changed your name again,
C# G#
and just when I climbed this whole mountainside
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to wash my eyelids in the rain.
D# Cm
R. Now so long, Marianne, It's time that we began
Bb Bbsus4 Bb Bb7 Bb Bbsus4Bb Bb7 D# D#sus4 D#
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.