Allison Mooreer – Melancholy Polly chords

[VERSE 1]
D5          E5              B5           E5  D5*Melancholy Polly spills her guts on stage
D5                Em          Bm        D5She can't get her jollies any other way
C5              D5            G       D5* E5Safe inside the music and the melody
A5                           B5*          D5Polly gets to lose it and no one can see


[VERSE 2]
G*           Em             Bm         DShe is not a starlet with a red guitar
G*           Em           Bm          DJust an easy target for a broken heart
C            D              G          Em*Peddling her story up there all alone
C          D        G               Gsus4 GIs another allegory carved in stone


[BRIDGE]
          FShe would ransom her fate
       EIf she had some escape
        Am          AdimBut her words are a curse
      Am7         DEvery rhyme every line and verse


[INSTRUMENTAL]
Am D
Am Am7 D


[VERSE 3]
G*              Em               Bm          DIn front of the footlights Polly takes a bow
G*                 Em               Bm            D Dsus4 D Dsus4 DWaves and says her goodnight to the drunken crowd
C                 D                  G            Em*When the house is clapping she knows what it means
C             D                G         Em Bm D GHer life only happens for a song to sing