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From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Mae Jean Goes To Hollywood Chords/Words The Byrds
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:46:10 GMT
In alt.music.byrds, [email protected] wrote:
>The Byrds Mae Jean Goes To Hollywood written by Jackson Browne
>F Bb F
>Honey when I brought you here you said that you would sing(?)
> Bb G7 Bb F
>You said that you would win(?) your way to fortune and fame
> F Bb F
>Now I’ve given everything to keep you warm and clean
> Bb G7 Bb F
>I didn’t bat an eye when you changed your name
> Bb C7 Bb F
>I’m getting tired of hearing people call you someone else
> Bb
>I’m getting tired of seeing you go to work in the morning and eating
>C7
>supper by myself
> F Bb F
>Now this Hollywood producer has offered you the world
>Bb G7 Bb F
>He lets you drive his sporty new Camero
>F Bb F
>Wonder just how many girls he’s told that story to
> Bb G7 Bb F
>How many dreams have gone away in sorrow
> Bb C7 Bb F
>I’m getting tires of biting my nails and pumping gasoline
> Bb C7
>I’m getting tired of waiting for you to figure out why this city is
>unclean
> Bb F Eb Bb C7
>Mae Jean run back home with me and I’ll go back to working on your
> F
>daddy’s farm
> Bb F Eb Bb
>Mae Jean run back home with me
> Bb G Bb
>This wicked cities bound to do us harm
>F Bb F
>Now all this time I helped you with your promising career
> Bb G7 Bb F
>I never said one word about your singing
>F Bb F
>I just want to let you know that you’ll still be my star
> Bb G7
>If you say goodbye to Hollywood
> Bb F
>And do your singing in the shower
> Bb F Eb Bb C7 Bb F
>Mae Jean run back home with me back to where the air is clean + free
> Bb F Eb Bb
>May Jean run back home with me
> G7 Bb F
>If this city doesn’t get us first it’s gonna sink into the sea
>From The Byrds Box Set Columbia/Legacy Records 1990
>out-take from the Ballad Of Easy Rider
>recorded 6/23/69