Flower Lady chords by 
Phil Ochs 
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Key: F# major•
Intro 1
B
G#m
C#
G#m
B
G#m
B
G#m
D#
G#m
B
D#m
B
D#m
G#m
F#
C#sus4
C#
F#
B
Million aires and
Verse 1
F#
B
F#
B
paupers walk the hungry streets
F#
B
Verse 2
F#
B
Rich an d poor compan
F#
B
D#m
C#
ion s of the restless beat
A#m
Bm C
B
Strangers in a foreign land
A#m
Bm C
B
Strike a match with trembling hand
A#m
Bm Em C D
D#m
B
C#
Learn too much to ever under stand
C D G C G
B
C#
But nobody's buying flower
F#
B
s from the flower lady
F#
Verse 3
B
Lover 's quarrel,
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
F#
snarl away their happi ness
B
F#
Kissed crumble in a
D#m
C#
web of lonliness
A#m
It's written by the
B
A#m
poison pen
B
Voices break be fore they bend
A#m
The door is slammed
D#m
B
C#
It's over, once again
B
C#
But nobody's buying flower
F#
B
s from the flower lady
F#
Verse 4
B
F#
Poet s agon ize,
B
F#
B
they cannot find the words
F#
B
F#
B
F#
And the stone stares at the sculptor
D#m
C#
asks "are you absurd?"
A#m
The painter paints his
B
A#m
brushes back
B
A#m
Through the canvas runs a crack
D#m
B
C#
Portrait of the pain nev er answers back
B
C#
F#
But nobody's buy ing flower s from
B
the flower lady
Interlude 1
F#
B
G#m
C#
F#
B
Soldier s, disil
Verse 5
F#
lusioned,
B
F#
B
F#
B
come home from the war
F#
B
F#
Sarcastic students tell them
D#m
C#
A#m
not to fight no more
B
A#m
And they argue through the night
B
A#m
Black is black and white is white
D#m
B
C#
Walk away both knowing they are right
B
C#
But nobody's buying flower
F#
B
s from the flower lady
F#
Verse 6
B
F#
B
Smoke dreams of es caping souls
F#
B
F#
B
F#
are drifting by
B
F#
D#m
Dull the pain of living
C#
as they slowly die
A#m
B
Smiles change in to a sneer
A#m
B
washed away by whiskey tears
A#m
In the quicksand of their
D#m
B
C#
mind they disap pear
C#sus4
B
C#
Still nobody's buying flower
F#
B
s from the flower lady
F#
Verse 7
B
Feeble, aged,
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
people almost to their knees
F#
B
F#
Com plain about the present
D#m
C#
A#m
using memories
B
A#m
Never found their pot of gold
B
Wrinkled hands pound weary holes
A#m
D#m
Each line screams out you're old, you're old,
B
C#
you're old
B
C#
F#
But nobody's buy ing flower s from
B
the flower lady
Interlude 2
F#
B
G#m
B
C#
F#
Verse 8
F#
And the flower lady hobbles home
B
F#
without a sale
Tattered shreds of petals leave a
G#sus4
G#m
C#sus4
C#
A#m
fad ing trail
B
A#m
Not a pause to hold a rose
B
Even she no longer knows
A#m
D#m
The lamp goes out the evening
B
C#
A#m
now is closed
C#
B
C#
F#
B
And nobody's buying flower s from the flower lady
Outro 1
F#
B
G#m
B
C#
F#
D#m
B
G#m
C#
D#
G#
A#
D#
G#
D#
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ChordsB G#m C# D# D#m...
B
G#m
C#
D#
D#m
F#
C#sus4
A#m
G#sus4
G#
A#
Capo: 4
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