Chords for ♥ "Flower Lady" (original) ♫ Phil Ochs

_ _ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _
_ [D#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [D#] _ _
_ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ [D#m] _ _
[B] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] Millionaires [F#] and paupers [B] walk the hungry [B] streets
[F#] _ _
[B] _ _ [F#] _ [B] Rich and [F#] poor companions [D#m] _ [C#] of the restless _ _ feast
_ _ [A#m] _ _ Strangers in [B] a foreign land
_ [A#m] _ Strike a match [B] with a trembling hand
_ [A#m] _ Learn too much [D#m] to ever [B] _ [C#] understand _ _ _ _ _
But [B] _ _ nobody's [C#] buying _ _ [F#] flowers [B] from the flower [F#] lady
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] Lovers' [F#] quarrels [B] snarl away [F#] their _
[B] happiness
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] Kisses [F#] crumble [D#m] in a web [C#] of _
[G#m] loneliness
[C#] _ _ _ _ [A#m] _
Written by [B] the poison pen
[A#m] _
Voices [B] break before they bend
[A#m] The door is [D#m] slammed, it's over [B] _ [C#] once [G#] again
_ _ _ But [B] _ _
_ [C#] nobody's buying _ [F#] flowers [B] from the [F#] flower lady _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ Poets [F#]
agonize, they cannot find the word _
[B] _ [F#] And the [B] stone stares [F#] at the [D#] sculptor, [C#] asks, are you absurd? _ _
_ [A#m] The painter paints [B] his brushes black
[A#m] _ Through the canvas [B] runs a cry
[A#m] _ Portrait of the [D#m] pain [B] never answers [C#] _ back _ _ _
But [B] _ _ nobody's [C#] buying _ _ [F#] flowers from [B] the flower [F#] lady
[B] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _
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[B] Soldiers' [F#] disillusion to come home from [B] the [F#] war
_ [B] _ _ [F#] _
[B] Sarcastic [F#] students tell [D#m] them not [C#] to fight no more
_ _ _ [A#m] And they [B] argue through the night
_ [A#m] _
Black is [B] black, white is white
[A#m] Walk away, both [D#m] knowing [B] they are [C#] _
right
_ [A#m] _ [G#] But _ [B] _ _
nobody's [C#] buying _ _ [F#] flowers [B] from the [F#] flower lady _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] Smoked dreams [F#] of escaping souls are drifting _ by _
[B] _ _ [F#] Dull [B] the [F#] pain of [D#m] living [C#] as they slowly [C#] die _
_ _ [A#m] _ Smiles [B] change into [G#m] a sneer [A#m] washed away
_ [B] By whiskey tears [A#m] in the quicksand of [D#m] their mind [B] they [C#] disappear
_ _ [G#] _ _
_ _ [B] Still _ nobody's [C#] buying _ _ [F#] flowers [B] from the flower [F#]
lady _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] Feeble [F#]-aged people _ almost to their [B] knees
_ _ _ [F#] _
[B] Complain about the present [D#m] _ is a [C#] memory
[G#m] _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [A#m] _
Never found their [G#m] pot of [A#m] gold
Wrinkled [F#] [B] hands found weary hopes
Each [A#m] line [D#m] screams out, you're old, [B] you're old, you're [C#] _ _ [G#] old _ _
[C#] But [B] _ _ _ [C#] nobody's buying _ [F#] flowers [B] from the [F#] flower lady
_ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
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And [C#] the flower lady hobbles [Bm] home [F#] without a _ _ cent _ _ _
Tattered treads of [C#m] petals [F#] [G#] lay the fading [F#] _ [C#] tread _ _ _
[A#m] Not a pause to [B] hold the rose _
[A#m] Even she no [B] longer knows _
[A#m] The lamb goes out the [B] evening now is [C#] closed
_ _ _ And _ _ _ nobody's [C#] buying _ _ [F#] flowers [B] from the [F#] flower [G#] lady _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A#m] _ _
_ _ [B] _ [C#] _ _ _ [D#] _ _
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ [A#] _ _
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[A#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _