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Hello Mary Lou

Words and Music by Gene Pitney - 1960

Ricky Nelson version reached No. 9 on the Billboard music charts in 1961

Verse:
C               Em	Am              C	F	-
C	-	G7	-
C               Em	Am              C	F	-               F#dim
C               Am	Dm7            G7	C	-
Chorus:
C	-	F	-
C	D7	G7	-
C	-	E7	Am
D7	G7	C	-       (G7 repeat all)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

Play Verse, Chorus, Verse, Chorus.

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Verse:

You passed me by one sunny day,  Flashed those big brown eyes my way,
And ooh I wanted you for ever more.
Now I'm not one that gets around, I swear my feet's stuck to the ground,
And though I never did meet you before.  I said:

 

I saw your lips, I heard your voice, Believe me I just had no choice,
Wild horses couldn't make me stay away.
I thought about a moonlit night, My arms around you good and tight,
That's all I had to see for me to say.  I said:

 

Chorus:

Hello Mary Lou, goodbye heart,
Sweet Mary Lou I'm so in love with you.
I knew Mary Lou, we'd never part,
So Hello Mary Lou, goodbye heart.

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Performer Links:

(webpage)

 

Watch Jan and Kjeld perform "Hello Mary Lou" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com