Hợp âm Walt Whitman's Niece

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[Verse 1]
[G]Last night or the night before that
I won't say which night
[C]A seaman friend of mine
I'll not say which [G]seaman
[C]Wal[G]ked up to a big old building
I won't say which building
And would [D]not have walked up the stairs
Not to say which stairs
[G]If there [C]had not been two girls
Leaving out the names of those two [G]girls
[C]I re

[Verse 2]
[G]call a door, a big long room
I'll not tell which room
I re[C]member a deep blue rug
But I can't say which [G]rug
[C]A gir[G]l took down a book of poems
Not to say which book of poems
[D]And as she read, I laid my head
And I can't tell which head
[C]Down in her lap
I can mention which [G]lap

[Verse 3]
Well, my seaman [G]buddy
and his girl moved off
After a couple of pages and there [C]I was
All night long, laying and listening
And forgetting [G]the poems
And as well as I could recall
Or my seaman buddy could recollect
[D]The girl had told us that she was
a niece of Walt Whitman
But not which [C]niece
And it takes a night and a girl
And a book of this kind
A long long time to [G]find its

[Interlude 1]
way back
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[Verse 4]
[G]Last night or the night before that
I won't say which night
A [C]seaman friend of mine
I'll not say which [G]seaman
Walked up to a big old building
I won't say which building
And would [D]not have walked the stairs
Not to say which stairs
If [C]there had not been two girls
Leaving out the names of those two girls

[Verse 5]
I re[G]call a door, a big long room
I'll not tell which room
I re[C]member a deep blue rug
But I can't say which rug
A [G]girl took down a book of poems
Not to say which book of poems
And [D]as she read, I laid my head
But I can't tell which head
[C]Down in her lap

[Outro 1]
I can mention which lap
[G][C]
[G][D]
[C]