D        G             D         G

     D        A             D         A2
On a Saturday night all the girls run free
         Bm      F#m        Bm        F#m
Singing "bury me not on the lone prairie"
    D            A           D             Esus
But where do you go when you finish broken-hearted?
  A           F#             Bm
E|--ba| ck to the dust where you started

[Verse 1]
D             G          A        F#
Jenny cut her teeth in a mid-west shack
     Bm         G           A                F#
As a shantytown girl on the wrong end of the tracks
     Bm             G                A            F#
Her mama taught her everything she'd need to get along
        Bm            G                  F#sus           F#
And her Sunday School teacher taught her right and wrong
 A                           G
Raised to be respectable but born to be poor
       Bm             Bm/D          Em                F#     F#
It was all she'd ever known but she figured there was more
Bm               G         A              F#
When she came of age Jenny made herself a vow
     Bm        G         F#sus      F#     F#  F#
"I'm gonna get out and I don't care how"

      Bm       G         A2         F#7
      Bm       G         A          F#7

[Verse 2]
     D            G             A          F#
It appeared every Autumn on the courthouse lawn
        Bm           G             A            F#
And the leaves never fell till the carnival was gone
Bm            G             A      F#
Michael was a barker for an arcade ride
       Bm          G            F#sus     F#
With a smooth-talk tongue and a wandering eye
 A                             G
"Get your tickets here for the Halls O'Mirrors maze
       Bm        Bm/D  Em            F#     F#
If you can't get out I know a couple ways"
   Bm             G           A               F#
He caught Jenny's eye but her thoughts looked down
        Bm           G            F#sus       F#
All she wanted was a ticket going out of that town


[Chorus]
F#        F#
She cried, she cried,
Bm    Bm       G         G
Oh how I wanna bury you
Bm  Bm          G         A
Oh bury you and run away--done away
Bm    Bm       G         A       Bm
Oh how I wanna bury your memory
Em   F#                 F#         
          Why don't you let me be?

Bm    G    A2    F#7
Bm    G    A     A

[Verse 3]
        D            G             A            F#
Michael stole a kiss first then he whispered at last
          Bm         G               A              F#
"you're a little old-fashioned so forget about your past
      Bm         G           A           F#
These Bible belt folks think living is a sin
        Bm        G              F#sus             F#
So they all start dying from the day they're born again"
    A              A                G              G
And there atop the Ferris wheel the colours were a blur
    Bm              Bm/D              Em            F#
The morning said he loved her but she wasn't really sure
   Bm               G              A              F#
He made her promise not to leave until he came to get her
    Bm           G                   F#sus         F#   
She promised him but she should have known better

[Chorus]
F#        F#
She cried, she cried, 
Bm  Bm         G         G
Oh how I wanna bury you
Bm  Bm          G         A
Oh bury you and run away--done away
Bm    Bm       G         A       Bm
Oh how I wanna bury your memory
Em   F#                 F#           
          Why don't you let me be?
Bm    G    A2    F#7     

[Bridge]
Bm        G        A2         F#
                               Oh, Jenny...

C#m       A        B          G#

C#m       A        B          C#m7 B/D#  
                              On   a     

E     E     Amaj7  Amaj7
train--stowaway
C#m             C#m            B              B
Jesus loves you still and your mama wants you home
    E   E         Amaj7  Amaj7
But oh    bridges burn
         C#m        C#m           B2        B2        G#
When you carry your shame and you think you can't return

[Chorus]
C#m   C#       A         A
Oh how I wanna bury you
C#m  C#         A         B
Oh bury you and run away--done away
C#m   C#       A         B      C#m
Oh how I wanna bury your memory

F#        G#   G#   G#   G#

[Verse 4]
          C#m               A         B        G#m
When they finally found her body on a cold dog day
       C#m         A   B             G#
It was in a cattle car buried in the hay
  C#m         A             B      G#m
A note in the pocket of her calico dress
          C#m       A         G#m      G#m
Said "I'm guilty as sin but I can't confess"
B2                B2            A2           A2
Once you know the truth you can hide it on a shelf
      C#m               C#m/E          F#            G#m   G#m  G#m  G#m
But unless you bring it down you can't live with yourself
       C#m        A              B2           G#m    G#m   G#m
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
C#m         F#m           G#     G#   G#   G#  
Jenny had a pistol in the other

[Outro]
     D        G             D         G
     D        A             D         A2
On a Saturday night all the girls run free
         Bm      F#m        Bm        F#m
Singing "bury me not on the lone prairie"
    D            A           D             Esus
But where do you go when you finish broken-hearted?
A           F#             Bm
Back to the dust where you started