Standard (EADGBE)
Pretty Mary K walks along the dock
with some sailor's pay shoved down in her sock.
Pretty Mary K, with some little boy in blue
Who can't stay away from you.
Pretty Mary K took him back to town.
I'm down here by the bay,
where the water pounds.
Up against the wall, crying black and blue
Keeps me away from you.
Pretty words that you whisper, (riff)
Maybe I misunderstood.
Somebody's not paying attention when they promised and their word
Isn't good.
Oh, Mary K, I can see your face.
Down there in the waves, painted and erased.
But I know it's just
a reflection of the moon,
A big fake resembling you.
(riff) (riff)
Gonna go down in the water, fill my mouth up full of sand.
(riff)
I'll be waiting still impatient with my dead imagination
while you're with some other man.
Pretty Mary K, off in somebody's room.
I'm down here by the bay
with my arm around the moon.
But I'll be with you soon,
just as soon as I've paid.
I walk across the water with Pretty Mary K.
Walk on the water with Pretty Mary K.
(Thanks for this song, Elliott.)