Chords for Ballad of the Lights - Arthur Russel and Allen Ginsberg

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_ A young man sits on the bridge _ after nightfall and looks across the Hudson River to New Jersey.
_ _ He wonders about life and he wonders if he'll ever get old.
_ _ He sees the lights.
_ He wonders if they are talking to each other _ and he wonders if they are talking to him
_ and he asks if they are.
_ _ _ My mind settles down on [F] those lights [G] from [C] New Jersey.
_ _ [F] Why I chose [C] New Jersey to [F] look at [G] I don't [C] know. _
Well one thing is sure _ _ I'm here to see [F] those lights. _
[G] It doesn't matter, don't matter [C] now where I [G] come from [F] or where I [C] go. _ _ _ _ _
Well what _ _ _ does [G] it mean?
_ _ [F] Those lights _ [C] I can't resist the [G] thought that they are twinkling to each _
[C] other.
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[F] Are they?
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Are [F] they?
_ [G] _ His leisure [C] hours _ _ are spent in a [F] way _
[G] that _ [C] mystifies [Am] his younger [F] years.
_ [G] Thinking [C] hard he has no say [F] what's in [Dm] his eyes _
[C] and meets his ears. _
Well one thing is sure _ _ I'm here to see [F] those lights. _
[G] It doesn't matter, don't matter [C]
now where I come from [F] or where [C] I go. _ _ _ _ _
Well what _ _ _ does it [G] mean?
_ [F] Those lights [C] I can't resist the [G] thought that they are twinkling to each _ [C] other.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] Are [F] they?
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Are [F] they?
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_ Lights are shining [Bm] brighter now [G] but it's not home for [D] _ me.
_ Different lights [G] across [D] the river, [G] lights of [D] industry. _ _
They are so beautiful. _
_ Very, very, [G] very _ beautiful. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [G] Please _ [A] Mr.
[D] Mystery.
_ _ _ [G] If I'm sitting [D] oh so still [G] all alone it's [D] only me.
[G] All those lights [Bm] have lost their meaning.
_ _ _ [G] Please _ _ oh [A] Mr.
[D] Mystery. _
[G] _ _ _ _ Suddenly [E] _
[D] the ice that was floating down the Hudson _ _
[G] stops.
_ _ _ The flow [D] has stopped _ _ _ _ [G] and so _ _ dejected he wanders [D] back _ into the city. _ _
[G] Back to the bars, _ _ _ [D]
back to where he first found happiness. _
[G] But he didn't notice _ [D] on the brick warehouse wall _ the [G] hulking _ _ lurking shadow [D]
of a human form. _ _ _ _
[G] Mr.
_ Mystery.
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