Old Aunt Eliza chords by Anne Kirkpatrick

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: BB

♫ Intro:

BB  B6B6  BB  B6B6


♫ Verse:
  BB            E MajorE     BB
As long as I remember Aunt Eliza was around
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Walking by herself about the yard
   BB              E MajorE       BB
Maybe sitting in the saddle room, staring at the floor
             F#F#       BB
Where the dusty earth was beaten down so hard.

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    E MajorE                  BB
And her faded eyes looked past you, for they didn't seem to see
    E MajorE        A augmentedA    F#F#
not of care about what happened today
    BB             E MajorE         BB
Oh, the only that mattered was the time when she was young
             F#F#       BB
And she didn't know that all had passed away


♫ Chorus:
E MajorE          BB
Old Aunt Eliza in your sun bonnet blue
     E MajorE            A augmentedA       F#F#
And your long skirts of cotton so old fashioned too
 BB          E MajorE         C#C#
A augmentedA figure of fun to the heartless and the young
    F#F#              BB
but you often made me sad, old Aunt Eliza.


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BB                E MajorE      BB
Then one day I found her sitting in her quiet room
                   F#F#
with a mirror and a lock of chestnut curls
  BB                 E MajorE       BB
She couldn't quite believe her hair so bonny now was grey
             F#F#      BB
And the mirrored face no longer was a girls

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    E MajorE              BB
So, she let her long hair down and I brushed it soft and fine
    E MajorE         A augmentedA      F#F#
And she talked as though I wasn't even there
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Of the parties and the ballrooms and the Bo's she had in line
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Oh, the fairest of the fair, they called Eliza


♫ Interlude:
BB  B6B6  BB  B6B6


♫ Verse:
   BB                  E MajorE       BB
So, I wondered just what happened in those days of long ago
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To make her mind refuse to face the years
 BB              E MajorE       BB
although Aunt Eliza would be ninety in the spring
           F#F#        BB
oh, her memories were fresh enough for tears


♫ Verse:
 E MajorE              BB
I suppose I'll never know and perhaps its better so
   E MajorE       A augmentedA       F#F#
but I wish I made a little time to spare
   BB             E MajorE        BB
for a sad and lonely shadow left behind our busy lights
           F#F#     BB
but perhaps old aunt Eliza didn't care


♫ Chorus:
E MajorE          BB
Old Aunt Eliza in your sun bonnet blue
     E MajorE            A augmentedA       F#F#
And your long skirts of cotton so old fashioned too
 BB          E MajorE         C#C#
A augmentedA figure of fun to the heartless and the young
    F#F#              BB    BB
but you often made me sad, old Aunt Eliza.