Richard Thompson Woods Of Darney chords

Woods Of Darney by Richard Thompson

WOODS OF DARNEY
By Richard Thompson
From the album "You? Me? Us?"



Attempt at chords by Magnus Paterson [email protected]

Standard tuning, capo 3rd fret.

        EADGBE

Am      x02210
Gadd9   3x020x
Bm      x24432
F       133211
Dm      xx0231
Em      022000
Bb      x13331
C       x32010
G       355433


Am
I found your picture in a corporal's pocket
Gadd9
His cold fingers still pressed it to his chest
Bm
Sniper's bullet took his eyes and his breath away
F
Now he lies out in the forest with the rest

Am
You looked shy in your grandmother's wedding dress
Gadd9
Feet set wide like a farm girl stands
Bm
Too young to love and too young to lose
F
In a cracked picture frame in a dead man's hands

Dm
I kept it with me for the luck, for the magic
Am
Maybe fate wouldn't strike in the same place twice
Em
But something stirred and I dared to dream of you
Bb
And I knew I'd look for you if I should survive

Am
When we stood down at last it was easy to find you
Gadd9
Mine was the shoulder you cried on that day
Bm
Just an old comrade doing his duty
F
Bringing the news from the Woods of Darney

C
When I showed you the picture perhaps I felt jealousy
Gadd9
As your tears welled up with each reminisce
Dm 
And my hands may be rougher and my tongue may be coarser
Am
But I knew I could give you a love good as his

(bridge is F G F G F Dm)

Am
Now we lie in the darkness together
Gadd9
Often we lie without speaking this way
Bm
As you stare in the dark do you see your young corporal
F
Who never came back from the Woods of Darney

Am
Is it him that you see when we make love together
Gadd9
Is it him that you see when war fills the sky
Bm
Was he there as you stood in your grandmother's wedding dress
F
As we made our own vows, you and I

Dm
Now the bugle calls, they say this is the big one
Am
A curse on the life of a soldier you say
Em
But don't you know that's a soldier's small comfort
Bb
For the bugle to sound, and to hear and obey

Am
And I'll carry your picture the one that he carried
Gadd9
I'll wear your innocence and take my chance
Bm
On a frozen field, in a far-flung war
F
To win back what we lost in a field in France

Am
And it's many a soldier who goes into battle
Gadd9
Your corporal and I, we just hear and obey
Bm
Perhaps we'll lie in the darkness together
F
With your love to bind us, in the Woods of Darney.

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ADDITIONAL TRANSCRIPTION NOTES 
FROM MARSHALL FLEISHER 

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ADDITIONAL TRANSCRIPTION NOTES 
FROM Noam Newman 
 
Woods of Darney
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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,