Intro Tab:

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Chords after intro:


A G Dadd4 G tab to A

A                
Everyone when she was young,

      A/F#                 
They said she was the pretty one

      Asus2/C           Asus2/G           A
She’s pretty now, just watch her as she goes

A
Waiting for the bus to come

     A/F# 
She holds the hands of someone young

      Asus2/C              Asus2/G           A
Whose mother comes and she sees her and she smiles

              Asus2/C     A
Thank you Loui-----------se

         Asus2/C     A
Mary Loui------------se

              a/F  Asus2/C  G  Dadd4   A
Mother of thre-------------------------e



A
Waiting in the check-out line

     A/F#     
The supermarket, Christmas time
     
    Asus2/C            Asus2/G          A
She helps someone who doesn’t have the change

A
Takes a dollar from her purse

     A/F#
She pays and doesn’t say a word

     Asus2/C             Asus2/G           A
And winks and grins and ‘Merry Christmas, friend’

              Asus2/C     A
Thank you Loui-----------se

         Asus2/C     A
Mary Loui------------se

              a/F  Asus2/C  G  Dadd4   A
Mother of thre-------------------------e




A
In Baltimore, the freezing cold,

       A/F#
That chills her daughter to the bone

     Asus2/C            Asus2/G             A
She walks from work and cops the drugs and leaves

A
Her brother lay upon the bed

      A/F#
With busted teeth and broken head

   Asus2/C             Asus2/G              A
He hears the phone and knows his brother’s dead

              Asus2/C     A
Thank you Loui-----------se

         Asus2/C     A
Mary Loui------------se

              a/F  Asus2/C  G  Dadd4   A
Mother of two--------------------------o