To Aunt Rose chords by Allen Ginsberg
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Verse 1
(E minor) (G major) (E minor) Donald
(G major) Rose, (E minor) now (G major) might (E minor) I see you (D major) with your (G major) thin face and
buck (E minor) -toothed smile and (D major) pain of (G major) rheumatism
(D major) and a long black heavy shoe for your bony (G major) left leg,
(E minor) limping down the long hall in
Newark on the running carpet
past the black grand piano in the day (G major) room,
(B major) where the (E minor) parties were, (G major) and I (E minor) sang
Spanish
boyless songs in a high squeaky voice,
hysterical.
The committee listening,
or who lived around the room,
collected the money.
Aunt
Honey,
Uncle
Sam, a stranger (G major) with a cloth
arm in his pocket,
and huge, young, bald (D major) head of
Abraham
Lincoln
(E minor) Bri gade.
(D major) Your (E minor) long, sagged face,
your tears of sexual (G major) frustration,
(E minor) what smothered sob (G major) s and bony hips
under the pillows of
Osborne
Terrace.
The time I stood on the toilet (A major) seat,
(E minor) na ked,
And you powdered my thighs with calamine (G major) against the poison I ate,
my (E minor) tinkered and shamed first (G major) black curled hairs.
What (E minor) were you thinking in (G major) secret of art then,
knowing me, a man already?
And
(B major) I, (E minor) an ignorant girl, (G major) a family silence on the thin pedestal
(E minor) of my legs in the bathroom. (G major) (E minor) (G major) (E minor)
(G major) Hitler is in eternity, is (E minor) with
Chamber (G major) lain and
Emily
Bronte.
Oh, I (E minor) see you walking still, (G major) a ghost on
(E minor) Os borne
Terrace, down the long
dark hall to the front
door, limping (G major) along with a pinched smile in what must have been (A major) the silken flower (G major) dress,
welcoming my father,
(A major) the poet, (E minor) on his visit to
Ne (G major) wark.
See you arriving in (E minor) the living room,
dancing (D major) on your crippled (G major) leg and clapping hands as
a woman had been accepted (E minor) by the
Demirite.
(G major) Hitler is dead (E minor) and the
Marites are not a business.
(G major) The attic of the past and ever (A minor) lasting
minute are (E minor) out of (G major) print. (B major)
(G major) Uncle
Harry sews his last silk stocking.
(D major) Clare quit interpretive
(E minor) dancing school.
Bubba set (G major) s a wrinkled monument.
old ladies (E minor) won't plead (A major) for their
(G major) new babies. (F sharpsus4)
(G major) Last time I saw you was (B major) the hospital,
pale skull protruding under (B major) ashen skin, (G major) blue -veined
unconscious (B major) girl in an oxygen tent.
The war in
Spain has ended long ago, at
Rose. (Fdim) (G major) (Fdim) (G major) (Fdim)
You
To Aunt Rose
Allen Ginsberg
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