Tonart: G major
Verse 1
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My
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grandmother wrote poetry
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That she rarely let other people read
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An d the words were sweet
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Of critical acclaim
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But the ones who read it
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Well, they often said,
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this ought to be published,
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this ought to be read.
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An d they said it was a shame
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that the world could continue to turn,
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and never even knowing
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a poet in her own time.
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From the time she was a gangly girl,
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her books took her off to
another world.
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Ivanhoe, Henry David Thoreau,
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and Edgar Allan Poe.
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don't gen erally read,
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they just look at pictures in magazines.
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So it's not a surprise
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and spent her time alone.
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She went to teacher's college too.
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But the teachers didn't know it.
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A poet in her own time.
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But she met and she married
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a railroad man
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She didn't do so much riding then
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Southern serves the South
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Oh, and the Great Depression swept on in
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like a cold unexpected northern wind.
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He forgot to come home one day.
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She was left with three kids to raise.
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Yeah, and there was nothing
else a woman could do
teach her in school.
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And the pupils didn't know it.
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a poet in her own right.
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La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
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La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
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La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
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La, la, la, la, la.
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Now my grandmother lies
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And at night she hears voices in her head
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She's got her religion right
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Oh, it's a hardening of the arteries
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It's a softening of the mind
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An d I mean to go and see her
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But I cannot ever seem
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to find the time
by the switchboard light
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Grandma was a poet,
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a poet in her own time
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The nurses don't know
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a poet in her own time
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La la la la la la la la
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La la la la la la la la ba la la la la la
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La la la la la la, ooh
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La la la la la la, La la la la la,
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oh guitar solo
Thank you, thank you very much,
and thank you
Fast Folks for letting me play with you.
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