[Riff A]
e|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|
G|-----------8--8h10-p8----|
D|-8-8-h10---8--8h10-p8----|
A|-8-8-h10--------------10-|
E|-------------------------|
 
 
[Verse 1]
[C]             [B]   [A#]                 [F]
  After all the jacks are in their boxes
        [C]      [B]    [A#]          [F]
And the clowns have all gone to bed
        [C]             [B] [A#]              [F]
You can hear happiness    staggering on down the street
[G]          [A#]            [D#] [E]  [F]
Footprints dressed in red
        [G]    [A#]       [D#] [E]  [F]     [D#/G] [E/G#]  [F/A]
And the wind whispers Mary
 
[Verse 2]
[C]         [B]  [A#]            [F]
  A broom is drearily sweeping
       [C]             [B]  [A#]              [F]
Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life
    [C]     [B] [A#]       [F]
Somewhere a Queen is weeping
    [G]       [A#]          [D#] [E]  [F]
Somewhere a King has no wife
        [G]       [A#]    [D#] [E]  [F]     [D#/G] [E/G#]  [F/A]
And the wind it cries Mary
 
[Lead]
| [F]   [D#]  | [A#]  [G#]  |
| [F]   [D#]  | [A#]  [G#]  |
| [F]   [D#]  | [A#]  [G#]  |
| [G]       | [A#]      |
| [C#]      | [F]       | [F]       |
 
[Verse 3]
[C]                    [B]    [A#]             [F]
  The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow
    [C]                    [B] [A#]           [F]
And shine their emptiness    down on my bed
         [C]      [B] [A#]        [F]
The tiny island   sags downstream
          [G]                 [A#]     [D#] [E]  [F]
Cause the life that they lived is dead
        [G]    [A#]      [D#] [E]  [F]     [D#/G] [E/G#]  [F/A]
And the wind screams Mary
 
[Verse 4]
[C]          [B]  [A#]          [F]
  Will the wind ever remember
    [C]         [B]  [A#]            [F]
The names it has blown in the past
              [C]           [B]   [A#]           [F]
And with this crutch, its old age, and its wisdom
               [G]           [A#]         [D#] [E]  [F]
It whispers “No, this will be the last”
        [G]    [A#]    [D#] [E]  [F]     [D#/G] [E/G#]  [F/A]
And the wind cries Mary
 
[Outro]
[D#] [E]  [F]     [D#/G] [E/G#]  [F/A]
[D#] [E]  [F]     [D#/G] [E/G#]  [F/A]
[D#] [E]  [F]