Capo: 3

WOODS OF DARNEY By Richard Thompson From the album "You? Me? Us?" Attempt at chords by Magnus Paterson mjp@roe.ac.uk Standard tuning, capo 3rd fret. EADGBE Am x02210 Gadd9 3x020x Bm x24432 F 133211 Dm xx0231 Em 022000 Bb x13331 C x32010 G 355433

^AmI found your picture in a corporal's pocket ^Gadd9His cold fingers still pressed it to his chest ^BmSniper's bullet took his eyes and his breath away ^FNow he lies out in the forest with the rest

^AmYou looked shy in your grandmother's wedding dress ^Gadd9Feet set wide like a farm girl stands ^BmToo young to love and too young to lose ^FIn a cracked picture frame in a dead man's hands

^DmI kept it with me for the luck, for the magic ^AmMaybe fate wouldn't strike in the same place twice ^EmBut something stirred and I dared to dream of you ^BbAnd I knew I'd look for you if I should survive

^AmWhen we stood down at last it was easy to find you ^Gadd9Mine was the shoulder you cried on that day ^BmJust an old comrade doing his duty ^FBringing the news from the Woods of Darney

^CWhen I showed you the picture perhaps I felt jealousy ^Gadd9As your tears welled up with each reminisce ^DmAnd my hands may be rougher and my tongue may be coarser ^AmBut I knew I could give you a love good as his

(bridge is F G F G F Dm)

^AmNow we lie in the darkness together ^Gadd9Often we lie without speaking this way ^BmAs you stare in the dark do you see your young corporal ^FWho never came back from the Woods of Darney

^AmIs it him that you see when we make love together ^Gadd9Is it him that you see when war fills the sky ^BmWas he there as you stood in your grandmother's wedding dress ^FAs we made our own vows, you and I

^DmNow the bugle calls, they say this is the big one ^AmA curse on the life of a soldier you say ^EmBut don't you know that's a soldier's small comfort ^BbFor the bugle to sound, and to hear and obey

^AmAnd I'll carry your picture the one that he carried ^Gadd9I'll wear your innocence and take my chance ^BmOn a frozen field, in a far-flung war ^FTo win back what we lost in a field in France

^AmAnd it's many a soldier who goes into battle ^Gadd9Your corporal and I, we just hear and obey ^BmPerhaps we'll lie in the darkness together ^FWith your love to bind us, in the Woods of Darney.

------------------------------ ADDITIONAL TRANSCRIPTION NOTES FROM MARSHALL FLEISHER ----------------------------- ADDITIONAL TRANSCRIPTION NOTES FROM Noam Newman Woods of Darney - --------------- Cm Gm7 Dm Ab Cm X2 Fm Cm Gm Db Cm Eb Bb Fm Cm Ab Bb Ab X2 (violin link) Ab Fm Writing it down like that looks pretty incomprehensible, but the songs are rhythymically simple: one chord every four bars in Darney,

Richard Thompson - Woods of darney