Walt Whitman's Niece chords by Billy Bragg and Wilco
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Verse 1
(G major) Last night or the night before that
I won't say which night
A seaman (C major) friend of mine
I'll not say which seaman (G major)
(C major) Walked (G major) up to a big old building
I won't say which building
And would (D major) not have walked up the stairs
Not to say which stairs
(G major) If there (C major) had not been two girls
Leaving out the names of those two (G major) girls
(C major) I re
Verse 2
(G major) call a door, a big long room
I'll not tell which room
I re (C major) member a deep blue rug
But I can't say which rug (G major)
(C major) A (G major) girl took down a book of poems
Not to say which book of poems
(D major) And as she read, I laid my head
And I can't tell which head
(C major) Down in her lap
I can mention which lap (G major)
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Verse 3
Well, my seaman buddy (G major)
and his girl moved off
After a couple of pages and there I was (C major)
All night long, laying and listening
And forgetting the poems (G major)
And as well as I could recall
Or my seaman buddy could recollect
(D major) The girl had told us that she was
a niece of Walt Whitman
But not which niece (C major)
And it takes a night and a girl
And a book of this kind
A long long time to (G major) find its
Interlude 1
way back
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(G major) (D major)
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Verse 4
(G major) Last night or the night before that
I won't say which night
A seaman (C major) friend of mine
I'll not say which seaman (G major)
Walked up to a big old building
I won't say which building
And would (D major) not have walked the stairs
Not to say which stairs
If (C major) there had not been two girls
Leaving out the names of those two girls
Verse 5
I re (G major) call a door, a big long room
I'll not tell which room
I re (C major) member a deep blue rug
But I can't say which rug
A (G major) girl took down a book of poems
Not to say which book of poems
And (D major) as she read, I laid my head
But I can't tell which head
(C major) Down in her lap
Outro 1
I can mention which lap
(G major) (C major)
(G major) (D major)
(C major)
Walt Whitman's Niece
Billy Bragg and Wilco
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