Susi: G major
Verse 1
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D
Em
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C
Em
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My
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grandmother wrote poetry
Em
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C
Em
That she rarely let other people read
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D
An d the words were sweet
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Of critical acclaim
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But the ones who read it
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Well, they often said,
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Em
this ought to be published,
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D
this ought to be read.
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C
An d they said it was a shame
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Bm
C
that the world could continue to turn,
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G
and never even knowing
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D
Em
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C
Em
a poet in her own time.
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Bm
Em
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From the time she was a gangly girl,
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Em
her books took her off to
another world.
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Bm
D
Ivanhoe, Henry David Thoreau,
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G
and Edgar Allan Poe.
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don't gen erally read,
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Em
they just look at pictures in magazines.
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D
So it's not a surprise
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G
and spent her time alone.
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A
She went to teacher's college too.
Em
G
But the teachers didn't know it.
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D
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C
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A poet in her own time.
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D
But she met and she married
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G
a railroad man
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Em
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C
She didn't do so much riding then
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D
Southern serves the South
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D
Em
Oh, and the Great Depression swept on in
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C
like a cold unexpected northern wind.
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Bm
He forgot to come home one day.
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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.
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G
a poet in her own right.
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C
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
Em
Bm
C
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
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La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
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Em
G
C
Am
D
Bm
D
C
G
La, la, la, la, la.
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Em
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C
Em
Am
D
Bm
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C
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D
Now my grandmother lies
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C
Em
And at night she hears voices in her head
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D
She's got her religion right
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D
Em
Oh, it's a hardening of the arteries
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Em
It's a softening of the mind
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Em
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D
An d I mean to go and see her
Bm
D
But I cannot ever seem
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G
to find the time
by the switchboard light
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C
Grandma was a poet,
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a poet in her own time
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Em
D
The nurses don't know
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G
a poet in her own time
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Em
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C
La la la la la la la la
Bm
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D
La la la la la la la la ba la la la la la
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La la la la la la, ooh
Em
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C
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G
La la la la la la, La la la la la,
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Em
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C
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oh guitar solo
Thank you, thank you very much,
and thank you
Fast Folks for letting me play with you.
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