Song For Molly chords by Lucy Kaplansky

Lucy Kaplansky - Song For Molly


CAPO: 3rd Fret



INTRO: G  C  G  C

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

    G
Antiseptic in the air
       C
Nurses laughing down the hall
        Am
Crooked feet in crooked shoes
           C
Her wooden cane against the wall


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



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


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


   D                   Em
Oh oh, it's time to go
   D                   C
Oh oh, it's time to go

It's a dirty trick
             G      C
This growing old


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


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


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


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


    G
She says this was Molly's
   C
It was her mother's ring
    Am                  C
I'm keeping it for you
                       G   C  Em
As she kept it for me


   D                   Em
Oh oh, it's time to go
   D                   C
Oh oh, it's time to go

It's a dirty trick
             G      C
This growing old


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