Pretty Mary K - Alternate Version from Either/Or Sessions, by Elliott Smith

This is an awesome song and the only similarity between it and the song
on Figure 8 is the name of the song.
Thanks goes to Charlie for making it available to us all at
http://www.sweetadeline.net/audio

There is a picking pattern throughout the song but you'll have to listen
to it to get it right.  I've just transcribed the chords.  Listen to the
song a few times and you'll find the picking and bass line are not hard.

Standard Tuning

Intro						Fm/B


Pretty Mary K walks along the dock		Fm/B	Fm	G	D

With some sailor's pay shoved down in her sock	Fm/B	Fm	G	D

Pretty Mary K with some little boy in blue	D	Fm	C	Em

Who can't stay away from you			D	G	D/F# A	D


Pretty Mary K took him back to town		Fm/B	Fm	G	D

I'm down here by the bay where the water pounds	Fm/B	Fm	G	D

Up against the wall crying black and blue	D	Fm	C	Em

Keeps me away from you				D	G	D/F# A	D


Pretty words that you whispered			G/B	Bb	D

Maybe I misunderstood				G/B	Bb	D

Somebody's not payin attention			G/B	Bb	D

What they promise and their word isn't good	C#	G	Gm


Oh Mary K, I can see your face			Fm/B	Fm	G	D

Down there in the waves, faded and erased	Fm/B	Fm	G	D

but I know it's just a reflection of the moon	D	Fm	C	Em

A big fake resembling you			D	G	D/F# A	D


I'm gonna go down in the water			G/B	Bb	D

Fill my mouth up full of sand			G/B	Bb	D

I'll be waiting still impatient			G/B	Bb	D

with my dead imagination while you're with 	C#	G	Gm
some other man


Pretty Mary K is off in somebody's room		Fm/B	Fm	G	D

I'm down here by the bay my arm around the moon	Fm/B	Fm	G	D

But I'll be with you soon just as soon as I pay	D	Fm	C	Em

A walk 'cross the water with pretty Mary K	D	G	D/F# A	D

Walk on water pretty Mary K			D	G	D/F# A	D


chords used
Fm/B	x24222
Fm	244222
G	355433
D	x57775 I think xx0232 is used in some places (the end of the verses)
D/F#	2x0232	(I use my thumb - but I  have big hands)
C	x35553
Em	x79987
A	x02220
G/B	x20003
C#	x46664
Gm	355333



I hope this was helpfull to someone.  If there's any errors or anything
that you want to suggest or if you have any questions, feel free to
e-mail me at mmmn_jmh@hotmail.com

-John