Song For Molly chords by Lucy Kaplansky

Chords with lyrics

Lucy Kaplansky - Song For Molly


CAPO: 3rd Fret


INTRO: G+G C majorC G+G C majorC

    G+G
Molly's sitting on her bed
   C majorC
It's Sunday afternoon
A minorAm
Radio's playing outside
  C majorC
TV bleeds from the next room

  G+G
Antiseptic in the air
    C majorC
Nurses laughing down the hall
    A minorAm
Crooked feet in crooked shoes
      C majorC
Her wooden cane against the wall


   G+G
It's Sunday, but her Sunday clothes
  C majorC
Are packed away somewhere
      A minorAm
She doesn't need them anymore
      C majorC         G+G C majorC G+G
Nothing to look her best for


I'm thirteen, I'm with my mother
  C majorC
She doesn't know my name
  A minorAm
I remind her I'm Lucy
    C majorC
But she looks at me the same


      G+G
Like I'm a stranger she should remember
    C majorC
From a place she can't return
   A minorAm
We've only just walked in
  C majorC
She says we've stayed too long
  A minorAm
Too proud to be remembered
   C majorC           G+G  C majorC  E minorEm
As a mother without a home

  D MajorD          E minorEm
Oh oh, it's time to go
  D MajorD          C majorC
Oh oh, it's time to go

It's a dirty trick
       G+G   C majorC
This growing old


  G+G
We walk the halls anyway
  C majorC
My mother holds her arm
   A minorAm
She's pleading with us to leave
   C majorC
So we walk her to her room


    G+G
And we drive through the old neighbourhood
     C majorC
The grand homes of the South Side
  A minorAm
So many are abandoned now
    C majorC
So many lifetimes locked inside


  G+G
And at the dinner table
    C majorC
It's my parents and me
 A minorAm
I sneak looks at the two of them
    C majorC
To see what they need from me


  G+G
And later she calls me over
     C majorC
Where she sits alone
   A minorAm
She's polishing a silver ring
   C majorC
I've never seen before


  G+G
She says this was Molly's
  C majorC
It was her mother's ring
  A minorAm         C majorC
I'm keeping it for you
            G+G  C majorC E minorEm
As she kept it for me


  D MajorD          E minorEm
Oh oh, it's time to go
  D MajorD          C majorC
Oh oh, it's time to go

It's a dirty trick
       G+G   C majorC
This growing old


  G+G
I'm told Molly was so proud
     C majorC
To have another baby girl
  A minorAm
Her only granddaughter
  C majorC
But I don't remember
    A minorAm     G+G  C majorC  G+G
This is what I remember
    A minorAm     G+G  C majorC  G+G