Title : Bow to the sad lady (alt. Mara Lisa) Artist : Ryan Adams Album : Suicide Handbook Transcribed by : Johan Sigurdson (johan.sigurdson@gmail.com) #-------------------------------------------------------------------------# Ryan Adams - Bow to the Sad Lady (Mara Lisa) ------------------------------- Standard tuning. Chords used: A D/A E E7 F F# e --0-- --2-- --0-- --0-- --1-- --2-- B --2-- --3-- --0-- --3-- --1-- --2-- G --2-- --2-- --1-- --1-- --2-- --3-- D --2-- --0-- --2-- --2-- --3-- --4-- A --0-- --0-- --2-- --2-- --3-- --4-- E ----- ----- --0-- --0-- --1-- --2-- G B Am Bm D/F# e --3-- --2-- --0-- --2-- --2-- B --3-- --4-- --1-- --3-- --3-- G --0-- --4-- --2-- --4-- --2-- D --0-- --4-- --2-- --4-- --0-- A --2-- --2-- --0-- --2-- --0-- E --3-- ----- ----- ----- --2-- (I'll keep it simple and let you figure out the picking yourselves... pick between A and when it says A for a start and make your way from there.) Intro: A, D/A... (A few times) A Mara Lisa waves her hand at the car E E7 A With a stick and a rose-colored shawl F A Fighting of tears of a dull and a deafening pain F# G They'll repay every senseless act A G F# They ever borrowed from you (G, A) B E E7 A Oh, just wait and you will see, won't you, Mara Lisa? Am G F# Through the curtains, sees the town and the parades (G, A) B E E7 A Oh, you know how innocence fades, don't you, Mara Lisa? A Marching softly through the weeds in her front yard E E7 A Up onto the porch to a sip of tea F A Wounded soldier with a cane and a bitter remedy F# G You'll repay every senseless act A G F# To the boys who were dead in the field (G, A) B E E7 A Oh you know they're were already killed, don't you, Mara Lisa? F# G You'll repay every trick you pulled A G F# On the boys that were lost out at sea (G, A) B E E7 A Oh they drowned in your memory, didn't they, Mara Lisa? Am G F# Through the curtains, sees the town and the parades (G, A) B E E7 A Oh, you know how innocence fades, don't you, Mara Lisa? Bm E Were you even capable of love? A G F# If you were, then how do you know Bm E Innocence keeps tabs on the ones it can't see Bm G D/F# E E7 It wet it's lips, and it said "Mara Lisa" A Marching softly through the weeds in her front yard E E7 A Up onto the porch to a sip of tea F A Wounded woman with a cane and a sad remedy F# G You'll repay every senseless act A G F# They ever borrowed from you (G, A) B E E7 E A Oh, just wait and you will see, won't you, Mara Lisa?