Old Aunt Eliza chords by Anne Kirkpatrick

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: B

♫ Intro:

B   B6   B   B6


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

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


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



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


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


♫ Interlude:
B   B6   B   B6


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


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


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