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