Тональность: G major
Verse 1
G
D
Em
G
C
Em
C
G
My
D
G
grandmother wrote poetry
Em
G
C
Em
That she rarely let other people read
A
D
An d the words were sweet
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C
Of critical acclaim
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G
D
But the ones who read it
Em
G
Well, they often said,
C
Em
this ought to be published,
A
D
this ought to be read.
D
C
An d they said it was a shame
G
Bm
C
that the world could continue to turn,
Em
G
and never even knowing
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G
D
Em
G
C
Em
a poet in her own time.
G
Bm
Em
G
From the time she was a gangly girl,
C
Em
her books took her off to
another world.
D
Bm
D
Ivanhoe, Henry David Thoreau,
C
D
G
and Edgar Allan Poe.
Em
G
don't gen erally read,
C
Em
they just look at pictures in magazines.
A
D
So it's not a surprise
D
C
G
and spent her time alone.
G
A
She went to teacher's college too.
Em
G
But the teachers didn't know it.
D
G
D
Em
G
C
Em
A poet in her own time.
G
D
But she met and she married
Em
G
a railroad man
C
Em
D
G
C
She didn't do so much riding then
C
D
Southern serves the South
G
D
Em
Oh, and the Great Depression swept on in
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C
G
C
like a cold unexpected northern wind.
D
Bm
He forgot to come home one day.
D
C
G
She was left with three kids to raise.
Bm
C
Yeah, and there was nothing
else a woman could do
teach her in school.
Em
G
And the pupils didn't know it.
D
G
a poet in her own right.
D
C
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
Em
Bm
C
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
D
C
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
D
Em
G
C
Am
D
Bm
D
C
G
La, la, la, la, la.
D
Em
G
C
Em
Am
D
Bm
D
C
D
G
D
Now my grandmother lies
D
C
Em
And at night she hears voices in her head
D
C
D
She's got her religion right
G
D
Em
Oh, it's a hardening of the arteries
D
C
Em
It's a softening of the mind
Am
Em
A
D
An d I mean to go and see her
Bm
D
But I cannot ever seem
C
G
to find the time
C
And at the nurse's station at night
by the switchboard light
G
C
Grandma was a poet,
D
G
a poet in her own time
D
Em
D
The nurses don't know
D
G
a poet in her own time
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Em
D
C
La la la la la la la la
Bm
C
D
La la la la la la la la ba la la la la la
C
D
C
A
La la la la la la, ooh
Em
D
C
D
G
La la la la la la, La la la la la,
D
Em
G
C
D
G
oh guitar solo
Thank you, thank you very much,
and thank you
Fast Folks for letting me play with you.
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