Biography:
Ruston Kelly is an American singer-songwriter based in Nashville, TN. He was married to Kacey Musgraves from 2017 to 2020.
Kelly writes and performs the kinds of songs that inspire novels and movies. You could call him a bastard disciple of Kurt Cobain and Townes Van Zandt, and he’d be totally cool with that. He’s just as comfortable wearing a cowboy hat as he is in a Slayer t-shirt. His story so far twists and turns through heartbreak and triumph
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Intro part changed to include the changing bass notes and the chords Ruston plays before the verse.
Pretty much every time the Am7 is played he plays the riff thing.
[Intro]
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----3----3-------3------3--------------------3----3-----3-----3----------|
G|-----2----0h2--- -0h2----0h2--2p0-------------2----0h2---0h2---0h2---2p0--|
D|--0-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------3----------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Am7 riff
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----3----3------3-------3------------------------1-------------3-------------5------------7---------|
G|-----2----0h2----0h2-----0h2h4----4p2p0----------0-------------0------------0-------------0----------|
D|------------------------------------------------2-----------2-4---------4-5------------5-7-----------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--3--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C G D Em D x2
C G D Em D Am7
[Verse]
D
Pretty wings, you're the prettiest thing
C
You're like Parker Posey in a magazine
G Am7
With faded jeans and a crop top back in '93
D
I wanna be your dressed-in-black
C
Your dark star with a backwards hat
G Am7
I'm gonna write a book and put your name on every page
C
Every page
[Chorus]
C G
Hey pretty little mockingbird
D Em D
Keep singin' them sad, sad songs
C G
There's already rain on my window
D Em D
I'm dyin' when the morning comes
C G
Flew away in the night with the raven
D Em D
Now I'm underneath the willows hangin'
C G D
I'm too strung out to be upside down
C D Am7
Pretty little mockingbird, sing me a song
[Verse]
D
I was the desert, honey, you were the sand
C
I was a bird, baby, you were the branch
G Am7
And I flew into the blue and watched those flowers dyin'
D
It wasn't much, just everything
C
You could've sat right there and got high with me
G Am7
But you fell asleep and your dreamin' brought the nightmares
C
Brought the nightmares
[Chorus]
C G
Hey pretty little mockingbird
D Em D
Keep singin' them sad, sad songs
C G
There's already rain on my window
D Em D
I'm dyin' when the morning comes
C G
Flew away in the night with the raven
D Em D
Now I'm underneath the willows hangin'
C G D
I'm too strung out to be upside down
C D Am7
Pretty little mockingbird, sing me a song
C G
Hey pretty little mockingbird
D Em D
Keep singin' them sad, sad songs
C G
There's already rain on my window
D Em D
I'm dyin' when the morning comes
C G
Flew away in the night with the raven
D Em D
Now I'm underneath the willows hangin'
C G D
I'm too strung out to be upside down
C D C D
Pretty little mockingbird, pretty little mockingbird
Am7
Sing me a song
Pretty much every time the Am7 is played he plays the riff thing.
[Intro]
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----3----3-------3------3--------------------3----3-----3-----3----------|
G|-----2----0h2--- -0h2----0h2--2p0-------------2----0h2---0h2---0h2---2p0--|
D|--0-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------3----------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Am7 riff
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----3----3------3-------3------------------------1-------------3-------------5------------7---------|
G|-----2----0h2----0h2-----0h2h4----4p2p0----------0-------------0------------0-------------0----------|
D|------------------------------------------------2-----------2-4---------4-5------------5-7-----------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--3--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C G D Em D x2
C G D Em D Am7
[Verse]
D
Pretty wings, you're the prettiest thing
C
You're like Parker Posey in a magazine
G Am7
With faded jeans and a crop top back in '93
D
I wanna be your dressed-in-black
C
Your dark star with a backwards hat
G Am7
I'm gonna write a book and put your name on every page
C
Every page
[Chorus]
C G
Hey pretty little mockingbird
D Em D
Keep singin' them sad, sad songs
C G
There's already rain on my window
D Em D
I'm dyin' when the morning comes
C G
Flew away in the night with the raven
D Em D
Now I'm underneath the willows hangin'
C G D
I'm too strung out to be upside down
C D Am7
Pretty little mockingbird, sing me a song
[Verse]
D
I was the desert, honey, you were the sand
C
I was a bird, baby, you were the branch
G Am7
And I flew into the blue and watched those flowers dyin'
D
It wasn't much, just everything
C
You could've sat right there and got high with me
G Am7
But you fell asleep and your dreamin' brought the nightmares
C
Brought the nightmares
[Chorus]
C G
Hey pretty little mockingbird
D Em D
Keep singin' them sad, sad songs
C G
There's already rain on my window
D Em D
I'm dyin' when the morning comes
C G
Flew away in the night with the raven
D Em D
Now I'm underneath the willows hangin'
C G D
I'm too strung out to be upside down
C D Am7
Pretty little mockingbird, sing me a song
C G
Hey pretty little mockingbird
D Em D
Keep singin' them sad, sad songs
C G
There's already rain on my window
D Em D
I'm dyin' when the morning comes
C G
Flew away in the night with the raven
D Em D
Now I'm underneath the willows hangin'
C G D
I'm too strung out to be upside down
C D C D
Pretty little mockingbird, pretty little mockingbird
Am7
Sing me a song
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