The New Song

LAYING FLOOR

   G                                C
She’s learned a new word
   G                         D                          C
After a week of laying floor and barricades
   A                                C                                     G
Swollen hands have lifted her beyond the machines
         C                 Am
that growl and grind
   C                                    D7                   G
To set her again upon her feet in a further room

   G                                        C
She knows she does not like it
   G                             D                                 C
Dangling head and arms over the gate she wants in
  A                            C                            G
She howls like an angry saw at the pile
    C            Am
of ragged pieces
C                                D7                              G
Soon enough I tell her and then again soon enough

CHORUS
G                       C
Who shall she be
G                   D                             C
To have slid in socks upon my floor
G                    D                           C
And chased that dog out the door
G                             D                   C           G
Will she laugh or cry when it’s time to go                  

BRIDGE

  G                           C   

She’s just turned three                                                                                      

    G                             D

Out of the terrible ‘nos’

G                             C

She thinks she’s a princess

D7                                     C

I’ve told her it just isn’t so 

    G                          C
But she has little time                                                                                      

   G                                  D                                     C                                                
When the barricades come down she races from room to room           

  A                           C                                       G                                                                
To catch up with herself and what she knows                                            

       C                Am                                                                                              
She has some sense I know                                                                                            

     C                                         D7                                   G
When asked how she likes her new floor she will point and smile 

CHORUS TWICE