Lyr/Chords Req: Mary Skeffington (Gerry Rafferty)

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mary Skeffington (Gerry Rafferty)
From: GUEST,Andy in Hamilton
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 07:07 PM

Mary Skeffington was the name of Gerry's mother. There's a story of how she had to keep him out of the house on Saturday nights so his Dad wouldn't come home drunk and beat up on Gerry.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Mary Skeffington (Gerry Rafferty)
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 02:00 AM

Skeffington was Gerry Rafferty's mother Mary's maiden name

Subject: RE: lyr/chords ADD: Mary Skeffington (Gerry Rafferty)
From: alex s
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 07:25 AM

It's "And make believe....."

Subject: Lyr Add: MARY SKEFFINGTON (Gerry Rafferty)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 12:07 AM

Can somebody post the complete lyrics for this song?

-Joe-

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Oh, I found them, and verified them by listening to the recording.

MARY SKEFFINGTON
(Gerry Rafferty)

Mary Skeffington, close your eyes
I may believe (??) that you are just a girl again
Go to sleep tonight, dream of days
When you had something there to light the way

Remember a holiday in a north-of-England town
You slept in a room upstairs on a bed of eiderdown

Mary Skeffington, when you wake
You mustn't be afraid to face another day
Think of what you have, you'll get by
You've always been a lady, so hold your head up high

Look back on a home where you spent the best years of your life
Remember the man who asked you if you would be his wife

Mary Skeffington, close your eyes
I may believe that you are just a girl again
Go to sleep tonight, dream of days
When you had something there to light the way

The transcription I found online says I may believe in the first and last verses, and that's what I hear - but and make believe would make a lot more sense.

Source: http://www.lyrics007.com/Rafferty%20Gerry%20Lyrics/Mary%20Skeffington%20Lyrics.html

Subject: RE: Mary Skeffington
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Oct 10 - 11:46 PM

was their a real Mary and if so whom was she?

Subject: RE: Mary Skeffington
From: GUEST,ARCHIE COMRIE
Date: 19 May 10 - 03:51 PM

Yes. Ten years later nearly and the same probs. Awfi guid. A big ta fae Scotland.

Subject: RE: Mary Skeffington
From: Will Bakker
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 01:36 PM

Yes Franz, that's what I needed. I had trouble finding the chords on : 'look back on your home' and so on. I asked for these chords some months ago and there was no reaction at all. I refreshed the thread and now it worked. Thank you and greetings from Holland.

Subject: Chords Add: MARY SKEFFINGTON
From: Franz Lemmermeyer
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 12:59 PM

Hope that works.

  intro: 
  
  |-4--7----4--2---4---0-----2--4-----------0---2---4-----2---| 
  |--------------------------------2-----4--------------------| 
  |-4--8----4--2---4---1-----2--4-----------1---2---4-----2---| 
  |--------------------------------2-----4--------------------| 
  |-----------------------------------------------------------| 
  |-----------------------------------------------------------| 
   
  |-4--7----4--2---4---0-----2--4--5-----5--4-----2-----0-----| 
  |-----------------------------------------------------------| 
  |-4--8----4--2---4---1-----2--4--6-----6--4-----2-----1-----| 
  |-----------------------------------------------------------| 
  |-----------------------------------------------------------| 
  |-----------------------------------------------------------| 
    

 E  
  Mary Skeffington, close your eyes,  
     B7                              E 
  I may believe that you are just a girl again. 
   E   
  Go to sleep tonight, think of days  
        B7                                   E  
  When you had something there to light the way.  
    

 Em                A                      Em                  A 
  Look back on your home where you had the best years of your life 
   Em            A                   Em               B7 
  Remember the man who asked you if you would be his wife. 

Subject: RE: Mary Skeffington
From:
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 03:48 AM

Subject: Mary Skeffington
From: Will Bakker
Date: 22 Feb 99 - 02:25 PM

Not really folk, but a very nice song by Gerry Rafferty. I have the lyrics, but can't find out the chords.