Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

  After all the jacks are in their boxes

  And the clowns have all gone to bed

  You can hear happiness staggering on down the street

  Footsteps dressed in red

  And the wind whispers Mary

  A broom is drearily sweeping

  Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life

  Somewhere a queen is weeping

  Somewhere a king has no wife

  And the wind cries Mary

(Solo)

You can strum verse chords as a background

  The traffic lights turn blue tomorrow

  And shine the emptiness down on my bed

  The tiny island sags downstream

  Cause the life that lived is dead

  And the wind screams Mary

  Will the wind ever remember

  The names it has blown in the past

  With its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom

  It whispers no, this will be the last

  And the wind cries Mary

Outro