Here's Marysville chords by Allen Ginsberg
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Verse 1
(E minor) Here's Maryville,
a black railroad engine
in the children's park at rest,
and the track crossing with
cotton -belt (G major) flat cars
carry (E minor) ing autos west from Dallas, Delaware
and Hudson gondolas filled with power stuff,
a line of (B minor) boxcars far east as (E minor) I can see
carrying battle goods to cross (C major) the Rockies
into (E minor) the hands of rich longshoremen
loading ships on the Pacific, Oakland, Harmony,
(C major) Terminal, Lights, Blue, Illumined (E minor) all night now. (E major)
(E minor) Crash of couplings
and the (G major) great American (C major) train moves on carrying
its cushioned (E minor) load of metal doom.
(G major) Union Pacific linked together
with your Hoosier (E minor) line,
followed by passive Wabash
(C major) rolling behind.
(E minor) All eerie, carrying cargo in the rear,
Central Georgia's (B minor) rust -colored
(E minor) truck
proclaiming the right way,
concluding the awesome poem
written (B minor) by the train across northern (E minor) Kansas,
land which gave right of way
to the massing of metal
meant for explosion in Indochina.
Passing (G major) through Waterville,
electric machinery
and the bus humming (C major) with prophecy,
(G major) paper (D major) signs blowing in (E minor) cold wind,
mid -Sunday's afternoon silence in (G sharpdim) town,
un (E major) der a frost (C major) -gray sky
that covers the horizon,
(E minor) that the rest of Earth is unseen,
an outer universe invisible, unknown,
except (A minor) through language,
(E minor) air print, magic images,
or prophecy of the (G major) secret heart
the same (B minor) in Waterville as Saigon,
(E minor) one human (E major) form.
When a woman's heart bursts
in (E minor) Wa terville,
a woman screams equal in Hanoi.
On to Wichita to prophesy,
Oh, frightful bard,
(G major) into the heart of the vortex,
where anxiety rings the university
(D major) with million air (E minor) pressure.
Lonely, cranked telephone voices
sigh (C major) ing in dread.
(E minor) And students,
waken, trembling (E minor) in their beds
with dreams of a (E minor) new truth,
warm as (D major) meat.
Little girls suspecting their elders of
murder committed by remote (E minor) con trol machinery.
Boys with sexual bellies aroused,
chilled in the (D major) heart by the mailman with a letter from (C major) an aging,
white -haired general,
director of selection (E minor) for
service in death war.
(E minor) Oh, this black language (C major) written by machine.
Oh, hopeless fathers
and teachers in Hue.
Do you know the same woe,
(C major) too?
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