A Black Horse Bends Its Head To The Stubble chords by Allen Ginsberg

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Verse 1
Em 
 (E minor) A black horse bends its
head to the stubble
Beside the silver stream winding
Am 
 (A minor) through the woods
Em 
By an antique  (E minor) red barn on the
outskirts of
C 
Beatrice  (C major) 
G 
 (G major) Quietness,
Em 
 (E minor) quietness over this countryside
A 
Except  (A major) for unmistakable
Am 
 (A minor) signals on the radio
C 
followed by  (C major) the honky -tonk
G 
Em 
 (G major) tickle of a city pi (E minor) ano
to calm the nerves of tax -paying
Am 
Em 
 (A minor) housewives of a sum (E minor) mer morn?
A 
Has any (A major) one looked
Am 
 (A minor) in the eyes of the dead?
Em 
 (E minor) U .S.
C 
 (C major) Army
Recruiting
G 
Em 
Service signed ca (G major) reers with a  (E minor) future.
A 
Am 
Is any (A major) one living  (A minor) to
look for future forgiveness?
Water hoses frozen on the street,
G 
Em 
 (G major) the  (E minor) crowd gathered to see a strange happening near the garage.
A 
Am 
 (A major) Red flames  (A minor) on
Em 
Sunday morning in a quiet town.  (E minor) 
Am 
A 
 (A minor) Has anyone looked in the  (A major) eye
Am 
s of the  (A minor) wounded?
Em 
Have we seen  (E minor) but paper faces?
G 
Life  (G major) magazine?
Em 
 (E minor) Are screaming faces made of dots?
Am 
Electric  (A minor) dots on television?
C 
Fuzzy decibels  (C major) registering the
Em 
 (E minor) mammal -voiced howl
From the outskirts of
Am 
Saigon to console  (A minor) -model picture
tubes in
Beatrice
In
Hutchinson
In
El
G 
Dor (G major) ado
In historic
Abilene
Em 
 (E minor) Oh, inconsolable