{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2818568,"song":"Pearly Little Red","artist":"Gordon Bok","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11640155-pearly-little-red-chords-by-gordon-bok/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2818568?type=chord","rating":0.1961,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\n[ch]D[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nDown in the dark and the doom of the city[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThere's a monstrous old gathering hall[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd a man there making a windy long speech[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo the lords and ladies all[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFifteen thousand, twenty thousand people[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMilling and murmuring there[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"And this ain't the place,\" says I to myself[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\"For a fellow that needs the fresh air\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo I asked for directions to get me outside[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I followed them all for sure[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I ended up down, ten floors underground[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I never saw an exit door[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe first live soul I saw was a policeman[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe was long, he was leaning on a rail[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI says \"I'll get to him before he sees me[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd ferries me off to the jail\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo I ease myself up on his starboard quarter[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI says \"Excuse me, your honour, for sure[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut if you've got a minute and nothing to do[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nCould you head me out toward the air?\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell, he pointed his finger back over me shoulder[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I peered away through the gloom[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd there, sure enough, was an exit sign[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nBright as the crack of doom[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell, I thanked him as nicely as ever I knew[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I eased my way toward the door[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut he fell into step with me, right alongside[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI could hear his heels on the floor[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell, he smiled like the sharks out off Little Green Island[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe had teeth all over his face[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe says, \"You know there's folks'd give an arm and a leg[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nJust to get inside this place\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Oh boy!\" thinks I, \"I've got my foot in it now[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI never should have come to this town\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I don't know what I'm doin' here now[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut I'm sure I'm doin' it wrong[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe says, \"There's people travel all over the country[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nJust to come and see this thing[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut if I know your type, you'd rather sit around home[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd listen to Little Red sing\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Little Red,\" I said, \"I'll be damned,\" I said[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\"I got a friend by that name back home\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd he smiles and says, \"Look, in this crazy world[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou got to call them like they come\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"And I can tell a Maine man any-damn-where[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI can tell him by his tongue[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd you ain't that far from the exit door[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut you're a damn long way from home\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]Em[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell, he laughs till the echoes laugh again[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe says \"Okay, hold out your paws\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo I closed my eyes, and I held out my hands[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLike my fingers were breaking the laws[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd there was blueberries, blackberries[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTumbled into my hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nRosehips bright with the smell of the night[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFrom off of the summer land[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe says, \"Little sister stayed home on the island[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe visits us now and again[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBrings us all she can pick from the hills[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd it sure does taste like home\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\n[ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell, we stood in the darkness chomping them berries[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nEating them our of our hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd my heart went away to the rocks and the bays[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd my friends in that lonesome land[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe says \"Tell me, speaking of our mutual friend[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHow that tough little fast picking fool[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nCan find his way through the brambles and rocks[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOf a homesick Maine man's soul\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Ah, but I guess he knows when the days get too long[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the morning comes too soon[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere's nothing will knock off the edge of your troubles[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike picking an old-time tune\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]Em[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell, he stowed the empty bag away in his pocket[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTurned on his heel to go[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd he says, \"Well, good luck, and if you see Little Red[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTell him Pearly says 'Hello'\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nG    C  G    D\nD       G\nC       G\nG    D    G\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nG    C  G    D\nD    G  D  G\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nC     G       D   G\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nC     G       D   G","chords":["G","C","D","Em","D7"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}