“Laundry Song in G”
By Amy Rogers Nazarov
Response
Capo 4, C position
Verse 1
C G D G
That bulb burned out last winter
C G D
The dust is piled high
C G D G
My broom reaches every corner
C G D
Of earth and sky
Pre-chorus oooooh
C G C G C G D D
chorus
G D C D
Then I’ll pin up the sky
Hang the sheets out to dry
Verse 2
C G D G
Reaching up I tipped the moon
C G D
Back into place
C G D G
Hung the wet things on the line
C G D
Saw that lunar face
Pre-chorus oooooh
C G C G C G D D
chorus
G D C D
chorus X2
Count the stars in the sky
Hang the sheets out to dry
Pulling down shades of night
It’ll all be all right
alternative final couplet:
Once the rooms are swept clean
There will be time to dream
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When Spring Comes, She’s Like the Aunt Who Visits Once a Year
By Angi Lewis
Inspiration piece
With skirts bustling,
she sets herself to all the housekeeping
that hasn’t been done in months:
the bulb that’s been burned out all winter
and the white sheets draped over the furniture
all the rooms are swept clean
the sky scrubbed and pinned to dry
green curtains hung once again in the windows
she straightens the moon where it hangs askew
stretches the night taut, like a coverlet
smooths each wrinkle
and as she takes off her shoes
she looks up and sees
constellations of silvered threads
catching the light
I suppose I’ll leave those, she thinks
and sets her broom back in the closet
for another day.
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