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