Nobody Knew She Was There chords by Peggy Seeger
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Verse 1
(D major) Ewan wrote this song
for his mother. (B minor)
(D major) She went out office cleaning.
She walks (G major) in the cold, dark hour
before the (D major) morning
The (G major) hour when wounded
(D major) night begins (G major) to bleed
Stands (D major) at the back of the patient queue
The (G major) silent, almost sleeping few
See (D major) ing no (G major) one and not being (D major) seen
Working shoes are (G major) wrapped in
working apron (D major)
(G major) Rolled (D major) in an oilcloth bag across her (G major) knees
The swaying tram as
(D major) saults the (G major) morning steely
Blue -grey day is dawning
Drain (D major) ing (B minor) the last few
(G major) dregs of (D major) sleep away
Over the (G major) bridge and the writhing
foul (B minor) black water
(D major) Down (G major) through empty
cor (D major) ridors of (G major) stone
Each of the blind (D major) glass walls she passes
(G major) Shows her twin in sudden flashes
Which is (D major) the mirror (G major) im age,
(D major) which is real?
Crouching hooded (G major) gods
of word and (D major) number
Ac (G major) cept her bent -backed (D major) as her due
(G major) The bucket steamed (D major) like incense coils
(G major) Across the endless floor she toils
Clean (D major) ing the (B minor) same wide (G major) sweep
each day (D major) anew.
Glistening sheen (G major) of new
washed floor is (D major) fading.
(G major) There where (D major) of his clocks are marking time, (G major)
Night's black tide (D major) has ebbed away
Past (G major) cliffs of glass awash with day.
She (D major) hurries from (G major) her labors, still unseen
(D major) He (G major) who lies beside her does
not see her
Notice the child (D major) that once lay (G major) at her breast
The shroud of self (D major) -denial cover (G major) s
eager girl and tender lover,
(D major) only the (G major) fated servant now (D major) is left,
how (G major) could it be
that no one saw her (B minor) drowning,
(G major) how did we come (D major) to be so un (G major) aware,
at what point did she cease (D major) to be her,
(G major) when did we cease to see her,
how (D major) is it no one (G major) knew
That she was (D major) there
Nobody Knew She Was There
Peggy Seeger
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