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