Subject: more alt. country tabs IV (Wilco/Bragg) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 15:43:58 -0400 From: christopher.gehrz@yale.edu (Christopher Allan Gehrz) To: settler@mailer.uni-marburg.de "Walt Whitman's Niece" By Woody Guthrie and Billy Bragg From Billy Bragg & Wilco's 1998 Elektra release MERMAID AVENUE © Woody Guthrie Publications (BMI)/BMG Songs (ASCAP) INTRO: E | A | A VERSE ONE: [A]Last night or the night before that [A]I won't say which night A [D]seaman friend of mine [D]I'll not say which seaman [A]Walked up to a big old building [A]I won't say which building And would [E7]not have walked up the stairs [E7]Not to say which stairs If there [D]had not been two girls [D]Leaving out the names of those two girls VERSE TWO: I recall a door, a big long room I'll not tell which room I remember a deep blue rug But I can't say which rug A girl took down a book of poems Not to say which book of poems And as she read, I laid my head And I can't tell which head Down in her lap And I can tell which lap VERSE THREE (spoken): My seaman buddy and girl moved off after a couple of pages And there I was All night long, laying and listening And forgetting the poems And as well as I could recall Or my seaman buddy could recollect My girl had told us that she was the niece of Walt Whitman But not which niece And it takes a night and girl and a book of this kind A long long time to find its way back SOLO I [over VERSE chords; resolving to A] repeat VERSE ONE and VERSE TWO SOLO II [over VERSE chords; resolving to A] -------------------------------------------