Turn Right Next Corner chords by Allen Ginsberg

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Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
Em 
Wichita  (G major) Vortex  (E minor) Sutra,
D 
Em 
1,  (D major) Wichita, Kansas to Lin (E minor) coln, Nebraska.
America.
Turn right next corner,
the biggest little town in Kansas,
McPherson.
D 
Red  (D major) sun setting flat planes west
Em 
 (E minor) streaked with gauzy veils.
Fm 
Chimney mis (F minor) t spread around
Em 
Christmas tree bulb refiner (E minor) ies.
Aluminum white tank
squat beneath winking
Fm 
C 
signal  (F minor) towers bright plane  (C major) lights.
G 
Orange gas flares beneath pil (G major) lows of smoke.
Em 
 (E minor) Flames in machinery.
D 
A 
 (D major) Trans (A major) parent towers
Em 
 (E minor) at dusk.
In advance of the cold waves,
Em 
snow was spreading eastward  (E minor) to
ward the Great Lakes.
C 
News broadcast (C major) s and old clarinets.
Em 
D 
 (E minor) Water  (D major) tower dome
lighted on the flat plain.
Em 
Car ra (E minor) dio speeding
across railroad tracks.
Kansas! Kansas!
Bm 
Shudder (B minor) ing at last.
A 
Em 
 (A major) Person ap (E minor) pearing
in Kansas.
Angry telephone calls to the
A 
univer (A major) sity.
Police dumbfounded leaning
C 
Em 
A 
 (C major) on their radio  (E minor) car hood (A major) s,
D 
Em 
while  (D major) po ets  (E minor) chant to Allah
Bm 
in  (B minor) the roadhouse showboat.
Em 
C 
 (E minor) Blue -eyed children dance  (C major) an
d hold thy hand,
Am 
A 
D 
O aged Walt,  (A minor) who came  (A major) from Lawrence to  (D major) Topeka to
Am 
A 
envision iron  (A minor) interlaced upon the city  (A major) plain,
Em 
telegraph wires strung from  (E minor) city to city,
O Melville, television bright
A 
C 
 (A major) ening thy  (C major) rills of Kansas lone.
G 
C 
Em 
I  (G major) come,  (C major) lone man  (E minor) from the void,
riding a bus,
B 
Em 
 (B major) hypnotized  (E minor) by red taillights
Bm 
G 
 (B minor) on the straight space  (G major) road ahead,
Fm 
G 
 (F minor) and a Methodist  (G major) minister with
Em 
cracked  (E minor) eyes
leaning over the table quoting
Kierkegaard.
Bm 
 (B minor) Death of God.
Em 
D 
Em 
 (E minor) A   million  (D major) dollars in his  (E minor) bank.
A 
D 
Owns  (A major) all West  (D major) Wichita.
C 
Come to noth (C major) ing.
D 
Em 
 (D major) Prajnaparamita  (E minor) Sut ra over coffee.
C 
 (C major) Vortex of telephone, radio, aircraft,
assembly frame, ammunition, petroleum,
nightclub, newspaper,
Em 
streets illuminated  (E minor) by bright emptiness.