Marie Provost

Marie Provost did not look her best The day the cops bust into her loneli-ness In the cheap hotel up on Hollywood West July Twenty Nine She'd been lying there for two or three weeks The neighbours said they never heard a squeak While hungry eyes that could not speak Said even little doggies have got to eat She was a winner that became a doggie's dinner She never meant that much to me Who oh oh oh oh poor Ma-rie Marie Provost was a movie queen Mysterious angel of the silent screen And run like the wind the nation's young men steamed When Marie crossed the silent screen Woah she came out west from New York But when the talkies came Mar-ie just couldn't cope The public said Mar-ie take a walk All the way back to New York She was a winner that became a doggie's dinner She never meant that much to me But now I see poor Mar-ie (instrumental) E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| G|-4--4--2--0-2-0-|-5--5--4--2-4-2-|-7--7--5--4-5-4-|-9--9--7--5-7-5-| D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| Those quaalude bombs didn't help her sleep As her nights grew long and her days grew bleak It's all downhill once you've passed your peak Marie got ready for that last big sleep The cops came in and they looked a-round Throwing up everywhere over what they’d found The handiwork of Marie's little dachs-hund That hungry little dachshund! She was a winner that became a doggie's dinner She never meant that much to me Who oh oh oh oh poor Ma-rie Poor Ma-rie Poor Ma-rie Poor poor Ma-rie Poor Ma-rie Poor Ma-rie