Chords for Maxine Feldman - Angry Atthis, with Introduction by Maxine
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Ebm] [Db] [Ebm] In Angry Asses I wrote May 13, [Db] 1969 [Bb] and I had just left Boston and I had been [Bbm] living
down in New York too and [Ebm] Mayor Lindsey had sent these cops into gay [Fm] bars where they would
imitate [Ebm] gay guys and as soon as the guys went outside they would bust them.
[F] Now that was called entrapment [Ebm] but it wasn't called entrapment then.
So there were many things, [Fm] you know, being thrown out of college, [Eb] always having to hide
who you were.
It got me so damn angry that one night when I arrived in Los Angeles, California, it was
the first night I arrived I wrote Angry Asses and it just [Bb] came spewing forth.
It just talked about everything that I was angry about, not being able to hold my lover's
hand, we're not child molesters, we're not this, you know, we're not [Fm] that and I just
[Bb] figured well the best way to put it sometimes was in a song and this was prior, [C] as you know,
since it was May 13th, prior to the gay movement as we [Db] know it today but it was in the air.
I mean what happened, you know, at Stonewall [Fm] on Christopher Street in the [Ebm] end of June,
it was in the air, it was bound [C] to happen.
We were all getting very tired of being invisible and losing our jobs, losing our schools, losing
our parents, [Bbm] so [Ebm] it was that kind of a
That's a pretty good start.
Where did you get [Db] the title for the song?
[C] Alright, Assis is one of [Ebm] Stapho's lovers and I had of course read Stapho, the lesbian poet,
[Bb] and originally I was going to call it Stapho's, you know, sadness [Fm] or something and I went
no let me [Ebm] call it Angry Assis and [C] anyone who will know who Assis is if they've read Stapho
they will know that Assis is one of her [Bbm] many lovers.
[F] So and when you also look at the words, if you look at Angry [Db] Assis which is spelled A-T-T-H [Eb]-I-S,
it also, if you [C] separate the words out it becomes Angry At [Eb] This.
So it was kind of a double
I like words, [Ebm] so it was kind of a double meaning.
[Db] [Ebm]
[Db] I [Db] hate not being [Ebm] able to hold [Db] my [Ebm] lover's hand.
Sat [Db] on some dim [Ebm] little table afraid [Db] of being who [Ebm] I am.
[Db] I hate to [Ebm] tell lies, live [Db] in the shadow [Ebm] of fear.
[Db] We run half [Ebm] of our lives from [Db] the damn [Ebm] workwear.
She's not your [Db] wife [Ebm] that I want.
She's not your children I love.
She's not my choice I want to flunk.
Just want to hear my lover's laughter.
Feel [Bbm] like we're animals [Eb] in cages.
And [Db] have your [Ebm] lights in the gateways.
Not revealing wrinkles or [Ebm] rages.
God forbid we reveal who we are.
[Db] I hate not [Ebm] being able to hold my lover's hand.
Sat [Db] on some dim [Ebm] little table afraid of being who I am.
[Db] No longer afraid of who [Ebm] I am.
down in New York too and [Ebm] Mayor Lindsey had sent these cops into gay [Fm] bars where they would
imitate [Ebm] gay guys and as soon as the guys went outside they would bust them.
[F] Now that was called entrapment [Ebm] but it wasn't called entrapment then.
So there were many things, [Fm] you know, being thrown out of college, [Eb] always having to hide
who you were.
It got me so damn angry that one night when I arrived in Los Angeles, California, it was
the first night I arrived I wrote Angry Asses and it just [Bb] came spewing forth.
It just talked about everything that I was angry about, not being able to hold my lover's
hand, we're not child molesters, we're not this, you know, we're not [Fm] that and I just
[Bb] figured well the best way to put it sometimes was in a song and this was prior, [C] as you know,
since it was May 13th, prior to the gay movement as we [Db] know it today but it was in the air.
I mean what happened, you know, at Stonewall [Fm] on Christopher Street in the [Ebm] end of June,
it was in the air, it was bound [C] to happen.
We were all getting very tired of being invisible and losing our jobs, losing our schools, losing
our parents, [Bbm] so [Ebm] it was that kind of a
That's a pretty good start.
Where did you get [Db] the title for the song?
[C] Alright, Assis is one of [Ebm] Stapho's lovers and I had of course read Stapho, the lesbian poet,
[Bb] and originally I was going to call it Stapho's, you know, sadness [Fm] or something and I went
no let me [Ebm] call it Angry Assis and [C] anyone who will know who Assis is if they've read Stapho
they will know that Assis is one of her [Bbm] many lovers.
[F] So and when you also look at the words, if you look at Angry [Db] Assis which is spelled A-T-T-H [Eb]-I-S,
it also, if you [C] separate the words out it becomes Angry At [Eb] This.
So it was kind of a double
I like words, [Ebm] so it was kind of a double meaning.
[Db] [Ebm]
[Db] I [Db] hate not being [Ebm] able to hold [Db] my [Ebm] lover's hand.
Sat [Db] on some dim [Ebm] little table afraid [Db] of being who [Ebm] I am.
[Db] I hate to [Ebm] tell lies, live [Db] in the shadow [Ebm] of fear.
[Db] We run half [Ebm] of our lives from [Db] the damn [Ebm] workwear.
She's not your [Db] wife [Ebm] that I want.
She's not your children I love.
She's not my choice I want to flunk.
Just want to hear my lover's laughter.
Feel [Bbm] like we're animals [Eb] in cages.
And [Db] have your [Ebm] lights in the gateways.
Not revealing wrinkles or [Ebm] rages.
God forbid we reveal who we are.
[Db] I hate not [Ebm] being able to hold my lover's hand.
Sat [Db] on some dim [Ebm] little table afraid of being who I am.
[Db] No longer afraid of who [Ebm] I am.
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[Ebm] _ _ [Db] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ In Angry Asses I wrote May 13, [Db] 1969 [Bb] and I had just left Boston and I had been [Bbm] living
down in New York too and [Ebm] Mayor Lindsey had sent these cops into gay [Fm] bars where they would
imitate [Ebm] gay guys and as soon as the guys went outside they would bust them.
[F] Now that was called entrapment [Ebm] but it wasn't called entrapment then.
So there were many things, [Fm] you know, being thrown out of college, [Eb] always having to hide
who you were.
It got me so damn angry that one night when I arrived in Los Angeles, California, it was
the first night I arrived I wrote Angry Asses and it just [Bb] came spewing forth.
It just talked about everything that I was angry about, not being able to hold my lover's
hand, we're not child molesters, we're not this, you know, we're not [Fm] that and I just
[Bb] figured well the best way to put it sometimes was in a song and this was prior, [C] as you know,
since it was May 13th, prior to the gay movement as we [Db] know it today but it was in the air.
I mean what happened, you know, at Stonewall [Fm] on Christopher Street in the [Ebm] end of June,
it was in the air, it was bound [C] to happen.
We were all getting very tired of being invisible and losing our jobs, losing our schools, losing
our parents, [Bbm] so [Ebm] it was that kind of a_
That's a pretty good start.
Where did you get [Db] the title for the song?
[C] Alright, Assis is one of [Ebm] Stapho's lovers and I had of course read Stapho, the lesbian poet,
[Bb] and originally I was going to call it Stapho's, you know, sadness [Fm] or something and I went
no let me [Ebm] call it Angry Assis and [C] anyone who will know who Assis is if they've read Stapho
they will know that Assis is one of her [Bbm] many lovers.
[F] So and when you also look at the words, if you look at Angry [Db] Assis which is spelled A-T-T-H [Eb]-I-S,
it also, if you [C] separate the words out it becomes Angry At [Eb] This.
So it was kind of a double_
I like words, [Ebm] so it was kind of a double meaning. _ _
[Db] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ I [Db] hate not being [Ebm] able to hold [Db] my [Ebm] lover's hand.
_ _ Sat [Db] on some dim [Ebm] little table _ afraid [Db] of being who [Ebm] I am. _ _ _
[Db] I hate to [Ebm] tell lies, _ live [Db] in the shadow [Ebm] of fear. _ _
[Db] We run half [Ebm] of our lives _ from [Db] the damn [Ebm] workwear.
_ She's not your [Db] wife [Ebm] that I want.
_ _ She's not your children I love.
_ _ She's not my choice I want to flunk.
_ _ Just want to hear my lover's laughter.
_ Feel [Bbm] like we're animals [Eb] in cages.
_ And [Db] have your [Ebm] lights in the gateways.
_ Not revealing wrinkles or [Ebm] rages.
_ _ God forbid we reveal who we are. _
_ [Db] I hate not [Ebm] being able _ to hold my lover's _ _ hand.
Sat [Db] on some dim [Ebm] little table afraid of being who I am.
_ _ [Db] No longer afraid of who [Ebm] I am. _ _ _ _ _ _
down in New York too and [Ebm] Mayor Lindsey had sent these cops into gay [Fm] bars where they would
imitate [Ebm] gay guys and as soon as the guys went outside they would bust them.
[F] Now that was called entrapment [Ebm] but it wasn't called entrapment then.
So there were many things, [Fm] you know, being thrown out of college, [Eb] always having to hide
who you were.
It got me so damn angry that one night when I arrived in Los Angeles, California, it was
the first night I arrived I wrote Angry Asses and it just [Bb] came spewing forth.
It just talked about everything that I was angry about, not being able to hold my lover's
hand, we're not child molesters, we're not this, you know, we're not [Fm] that and I just
[Bb] figured well the best way to put it sometimes was in a song and this was prior, [C] as you know,
since it was May 13th, prior to the gay movement as we [Db] know it today but it was in the air.
I mean what happened, you know, at Stonewall [Fm] on Christopher Street in the [Ebm] end of June,
it was in the air, it was bound [C] to happen.
We were all getting very tired of being invisible and losing our jobs, losing our schools, losing
our parents, [Bbm] so [Ebm] it was that kind of a_
That's a pretty good start.
Where did you get [Db] the title for the song?
[C] Alright, Assis is one of [Ebm] Stapho's lovers and I had of course read Stapho, the lesbian poet,
[Bb] and originally I was going to call it Stapho's, you know, sadness [Fm] or something and I went
no let me [Ebm] call it Angry Assis and [C] anyone who will know who Assis is if they've read Stapho
they will know that Assis is one of her [Bbm] many lovers.
[F] So and when you also look at the words, if you look at Angry [Db] Assis which is spelled A-T-T-H [Eb]-I-S,
it also, if you [C] separate the words out it becomes Angry At [Eb] This.
So it was kind of a double_
I like words, [Ebm] so it was kind of a double meaning. _ _
[Db] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ I [Db] hate not being [Ebm] able to hold [Db] my [Ebm] lover's hand.
_ _ Sat [Db] on some dim [Ebm] little table _ afraid [Db] of being who [Ebm] I am. _ _ _
[Db] I hate to [Ebm] tell lies, _ live [Db] in the shadow [Ebm] of fear. _ _
[Db] We run half [Ebm] of our lives _ from [Db] the damn [Ebm] workwear.
_ She's not your [Db] wife [Ebm] that I want.
_ _ She's not your children I love.
_ _ She's not my choice I want to flunk.
_ _ Just want to hear my lover's laughter.
_ Feel [Bbm] like we're animals [Eb] in cages.
_ And [Db] have your [Ebm] lights in the gateways.
_ Not revealing wrinkles or [Ebm] rages.
_ _ God forbid we reveal who we are. _
_ [Db] I hate not [Ebm] being able _ to hold my lover's _ _ hand.
Sat [Db] on some dim [Ebm] little table afraid of being who I am.
_ _ [Db] No longer afraid of who [Ebm] I am. _ _ _ _ _ _