Woods Of Darney chords by Richard Thompson

Chords with lyrics

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

A minorAm   x02210
Gadd9Gadd9  3x020x
B minorBm   x24432
FF    133211
DmDm   xx0231
E minorEm   022000
Bb majorBb   x13331
C majorC    x32010
G+G    355433

A minorAm
I found your picture in a corporal's pocket
Gadd9Gadd9
His cold fingers still pressed it to his chest
B minorBm
Sniper's bullet took his eyes and his breath away
FF
Now he lies out in the forest with the rest

A minorAm
You looked shy in your grandmother's wedding dress
Gadd9Gadd9
Feet set wide like a farm girl stands
B minorBm
Too young to love and too young to lose
FF
In a cracked picture frame in a dead man's hands

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

A minorAm
When we stood down at last it was easy to find you
Gadd9Gadd9
Mine was the shoulder you cried on that day
B minorBm
Just an old comrade doing his duty
FF
Bringing the news from the Woods of Darney

C majorC
When I showed you the picture perhaps I felt jealousy
Gadd9Gadd9
As your tears welled up with each reminisce
DmDm
And my hands may be rougher and my tongue may be coarser
A minorAm
But I knew I could give you a love good as his

(bridge is FF G+G FF G+G FF DmDm)

A minorAm
Now we lie in the darkness together
Gadd9Gadd9
Often we lie without speaking this way
B minorBm
As you stare in the dark do you see your young corporal
FF
Who never came back from the Woods of Darney

A minorAm
Is it him that you see when we make love together
Gadd9Gadd9
Is it him that you see when war fills the sky
B minorBm
Was he there as you stood in your grandmother's wedding dress
FF
As we made our own vows, you and I

DmDm
Now the bugle calls, they say this is the big one
A minorAm
A augmentedA curse on the life of a soldier you say
E minorEm
But don't you know that's a soldier's small comfort
Bb majorBb
For the bugle to sound, and to hear and obey

A minorAm
And I'll carry your picture the one that he carried
Gadd9Gadd9
I'll wear your innocence and take my chance
B minorBm
On a frozen field, in a far-flung war
FF
To win back what we lost in a field in France

A minorAm
And it's many a soldier who goes into battle
Gadd9Gadd9
Your corporal and I, we just hear and obey
B minorBm
Perhaps we'll lie in the darkness together
FF
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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C minorCm Gm7Gm7 DmDm AbAb C minorCm X2
F minorFm C minorCm G minorGm DbDb C minorCm

Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb F minorFm C minorCm

AbAb Bb majorBb AbAb X2 (violin link)
AbAb F minorFm

Writing it down like that looks pretty incomprehensible, but the songs
are rhythymically simple: one chord every four bars in Darney,