ALPHABET, AN

Eb Cm Ab
Molly knows that A is for airplane.
Eb Cm Ab
B is for the red ball she lost in the snow.
Eb. Cm Ab
C is for chasing the cats in the backyard.
Eb Cm Ab
D is for dogs barking, scaring the crows.

Eb Cm Ab
E is for everything: still as she’s digging.
Eb Cm Ab
F is for her fingers: tunneling, cold
Eb Cm Ab
G is for galoshes as wet as her footprints
Eb Cm Ab Bb7 Bb/A
H is for the haystacks all huddled in the knoll

Ab Gm7
It kills you to know that your ball is gone, Molly
Fm7 Cm7 G7
Lost under the snow
Ab Gm7
But your mother’s voice is floating over the grove, Molly
Fm Bb Bb7
You’ll have to let it go

Eb Cm Ab
I is for icycles dripping on windshields
Eb Cm Ab
J is for the jazz floating up from a garage
Eb Cm Ab
K are the kids coming home as the sky darkens
Eb Cm Ab
L is for the lights on her grandaddy’s Dodge

Eb Cm Ab
M is there making a tunnel with her mittens
Eb Cm Ab
N is for nothing, no traces of red
Eb Cm Ab
O is for the opening she’s crawling inside now
Eb Cm Ab Bb7 Bb/A
P is for praying it don’t cave in on her head

Ab Gm7
It kills you to know that your ball is gone, Molly
Fm7 Cm7 G7
Lost under the snow
Ab Gm7
But your mother’s voice is floating over the grove, Molly
Fm Bb Bb7
You’ll have to let it go


Eb Gm7 Ab
Q is for quiet under the snowdrift
Eb Gm7 Ab
R is the red ball she still hasn’t found
Eb Gm7 Ab
S is the snow melting all around her
Eb Gm7 Ab
T is the tunnel caving in all around


Ab Gm7
U is the undertaker shaking his head slowly
Fm Cm7 G7
V is the Virginia Slim he ashes and throws
Ab Gm7
W is the water, what’s left of the snowstorm
Fm Bb7
X is ex girl face down in her clothes

Eb Cm7 Ab
Y is the question the neighbors are asking
Eb Cm7 Ab
meandering homeward to catch some Zs

words and music by Michael Johnson
© 2002 Zubsongs, Ltd.