Intro
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[Verse 1]
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When I was a young boy, my papaw played me songs
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He’d sing that Pretty Polly, and I’d listen all night long
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Those sounds went straight into my soul, sitting on his cabin floor
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But I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
[Verse 2]
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When Granny was a young girl, she had to hold her own
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She told my little sister, don’t get with a man alone
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Down in the Willow Garden, wasn’t some old metaphor
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So I ain’t playing Willow Garden anymore
[Chorus]
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I ain’t playing Pretty Polly or Rosalie McFall
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I ain’t playing Knoxville Girl, no, none of them at all
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No more tales of women killed by drunken violent men
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They don’t deserve their stories told, I won’t raise my voice again
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I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
[Verse 3]
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Cause I know some stories, men like my Uncle Clyde
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He spent seven decades at my Aunt Myrtle’s side
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Kentucky teens who fell in love in 1934
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They had to leave the mountains to find work in Baltimore
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She tended their young family while he fought for them in the war
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And she still holds his picture and looks for him at the door
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Though she just turned 100 and he passed 12 years before
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So I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
[Chorus]
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I ain’t playing Pretty Polly or Rosalie McFall
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I ain’t playing Knoxville Girl, no, none of them at all
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No more tales of women killed by drunken violent men
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They don’t deserve their stories told, I won’t raise my voice again
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And I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
[Outro]
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I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
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I ain’t playing Pretty Polly anymore
- 1. Chord Gitar Dirk Powell - I Aint Playing Pretty Polly Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar D)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Dirk Powell - I Aint Playing Pretty Polly Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar D)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan