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To Aunt Rose chords by
Allen Ginsberg
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Verse 1
Em
G
Em

Donald
G
Em
G
Em
D
G

Rose, now might I see you with your thin face and
Em
D
G

buck -toothed smile and pain of rheumatism
D
G

and a long black heavy shoe for your bony left leg,
Em

limping down the long hall in

Newark on the running carpet
G

past the black grand piano in the day room,
B
Em
G
Em

where the parties were, and I 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
G

Sam, a stranger with a cloth

arm in his pocket,
D

and huge, young, bald head of

Abraham

Lincoln
Em

Bri gade.
D
Em

Your long, sagged face,
G

your tears of sexual frustration,
Em
G

what smothered sobs and bony hips

under the pillows of

Osborne

Terrace.
A

The time I stood on the toilet seat,
Em

na ked,
G

And you powdered my thighs with calamine against the poison I ate,
Em
G

my tinkered and shamed first black curled hairs.
Em
G

What were you thinking in secret of art then,

knowing me, a man already?

And
B
Em
G

I, an ignorant girl, a family silence on the thin pedestal
Em
G
Em
G
Em

of my legs in the bathroom.
G
Em

Hitler is in eternity, is with
G

Chamberlain and

Emily

Bronte.
Em
G

Oh, I see you walking still, a ghost on
Em

Os borne

Terrace, down the long

dark hall to the front
G
A
G

door, limping along with a pinched smile in what must have been the silken flower dress,


welcoming my father,
A
Em

the poet, on his visit to
G

Newark.
Em

See you arriving in the living room,
D
G

dancing on your crippled leg and clapping hands as
Em

a woman had been accepted by the

Demirite.
G
Em

Hitler is dead and the

Marites are not a business.
G
Am

The attic of the past and everlasting
Em
G
B

minute are out of print.
G

Uncle

Harry sews his last silk stocking.
D

Clare quit interpretive
Em

dancing school.
G

Bubba sets a wrinkled monument.
Em
A

old ladies won't plead for their
G
F#sus4

new babies.
G
B

Last time I saw you was the hospital,
B
G

pale skull protruding under ashen skin, blue -veined
B

unconscious girl in an oxygen tent.

The war in

Spain has ended long ago, at
Fdim
G
Fdim
G
Fdim

Rose.


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  • Em

  • G

  • D

  • B

    2
  • A

  • Am

  • F#sus4

    2
  • Fdim

    3

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