Song For Molly

	  		


rd 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 
This is what I remember