BYRDS - "Mae Jean Goes To Hollywood" Tablature

From: RICKL1@IX.NETCOM.COM
Subject: Re: Mae Jean Goes To Hollywood Chords/Words The Byrds
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:46:10 GMT



In alt.music.byrds, RICKL1@IX.NETCOM.COM wrote:

The Byrds Mae Jean Goes To Hollywood written by Jackson Browne

F Bb F
Honey when I brought you here you said that you would sing(?)
Bb G7 Bb F
You said that you would win(?) your way to fortune and fame
F Bb F
Now I've given everything to keep you warm and clean
Bb G7 Bb F
I didn't bat an eye when you changed your name
Bb C7 Bb F
I'm getting tired of hearing people call you someone else
Bb
I'm getting tired of seeing you go to work in the morning and eating
C7
supper by myself
F Bb F
Now this Hollywood producer has offered you the world
Bb G7 Bb F
He lets you drive his sporty new Camero
F Bb F
Wonder just how many girls he's told that story to
Bb G7 Bb F
How many dreams have gone away in sorrow
Bb C7 Bb F
I'm getting tires of biting my nails and pumping gasoline
Bb C7
I'm getting tired of waiting for you to figure out why this city is

unclean
Bb F Eb Bb C7
Mae Jean run back home with me and I'll go back to working on your
F
daddy's farm
Bb F Eb Bb
Mae Jean run back home with me
Bb G Bb
This wicked cities bound to do us harm
F Bb F
Now all this time I helped you with your promising career
Bb G7 Bb F
I never said one word about your singing
F Bb F
I just want to let you know that you'll still be my star
Bb G7
If you say goodbye to Hollywood
Bb F
And do your singing in the shower
Bb F Eb Bb C7 Bb F

Mae Jean run back home with me back to where the air is clean + free
Bb F Eb Bb
May Jean run back home with me
G7 Bb F
If this city doesn't get us first it's gonna sink into the sea

From The Byrds Box Set Columbia/Legacy Records 1990
out-take from the Ballad Of Easy Rider
recorded 6/23/69