Biography:
Richard Thompson OBE (born 3 April 1949, Notting Hill, London) is a British singer/songwriter and guitarist. Highly regarded for his guitar techniques, Thompson was awarded the Orville H. Gibson award for best acoustic guitar player in 1991. Similarly, his songwriting has earned him an Ivor Novello Award and, in 2006, a lifetime achievement award from BBC Radio. Thompson made his debut as a recording artist as a member of Fairport Convention in September 1967.
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- A Bone Through Her Nose
- A Heart Needs A Home
- A Love You Cant Survive
- A Man In Need
- A Poisoned Heart And A Twisted Memory
- A Solitary Life
- All Buttoned Up
- Back Street Slide
- Bank Vault In Heaven
- Bathsheba Smiles
- Beat The Retreat
- Beatnik Walking
- Beeswing
- Bonnie St Johnstone
- Borrowed Time
- Broken Doll
- Calvary Cross
- Cant Win
- Cold Kisses
- Cooksferry Queen
- Coyotes
- Crawl Back Under My Stone
- Dads Gonna Kill Me
- Dark Hand Over My Heart
- Dead Mans Handle
- Devonside
- Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed
- Died For Love
- Dimming Of The Day
- Dont Renege On Our Love
- Dont Tempt Me
- Down Where The Drunkards Roll
- Drifting Through The Days
- Dungeons For Eyes
- End Of The Rainbow
- Farewell Farewell
- Fergus Laing
- Fire In The Engine Room
- First Breath
- For The Sake Of Mary
- For Whose Sake
- From Galway To Graceland
- Genesis Hall
- Georgie On A Spree
- Gethsemane
- Ghosts In The Wind
- God Loves A Drunk
- Grey Walls
- Gypsy Love Songs
- Happy Days And Auld Lang Syne
- Hard Luck Stories
- Hard On Me
- Haul Me Up
- How Will I Ever Be Simple Again
- I Aint Going To Drag My Feet No More
- I Feel So Good
- I Misunderstood
- I Ride In Your Slipstream
- I Still Dream
- I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
- Ill Never Give It Up
- Ill Tag Along
- Im A Dreamer
- Its Just The Motion
- Jealous Words
- Jennie
- Jerusalem On The Jukebox
- Jet Plane And A Rocking Chair Live
- Johnnys Far Away
- Josephine
- Keep Your Distance
- Killing Jar
- Let It Blow
- Living In Luxury
- Long Dead Love
- Long John Silver
- Lotteryland
- Mascara Tears
- Meet On The Ledge
- Mingulay Boat Song
- Miss Patsy
- Missie How You Let Me Down
- Modern Woman
- Mr Rebound
- Mrs Rita
- Nearly In Love
- Needle And Thread
- Never Again
- Night Comes In
- No Peace No End
- Now Be Thankful
- Oh I Swear
- Oops I Did It Again
- Patty Dont You Put Me Down
- Pavanne
- Pony In The Stable
- Poor Ditching Boy
- Pour Down Like Silver
- Pursuasion
- Put It There Pal
- Read About Love
- Reckless Kind
- Restless Highway
- Salford Sunday
- Sam Jones
- Shady Lies
- Shaky Nancy
- Shane And Dixie
- She Never Could Resist A Winding Road
- She Said It Was Destiny
- She Twists The Knife Again
- Shine On Love
- Should I Betray
- Sibella
- Strange Affair
- Sunnyvista
- Sweet Surrender
- Sweetheart On The Barricade
- Take Care The Road You Choose
- Tear Stained Letter
- The Egypt Room
- The Ghost Of You Walks
- The Great Valerio
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- The Sights And Sounds Of London Town
- The Sun Never Shines On The Poor
- The Way That It Shows
- The World Is A Wonderful Place
- The Wrong Heartbeat
- Time To Ring Some Changes
- Too Late To Come Fishing
- Traces Of My Love
- Turning Of The Tide
- Twisted
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- Valerie
- Walking On A Wire
- Walking The Long Miles Home
- Walking Through A Wasted Land
- Wall Of Death
- Waltzing For Dreamers
- When I Get To The Border
- When The Spell Is Broken
- When We Were Boys At School
- Why Do You Turn Your Back
- Why Must I Plead
- Withered And Died
- Woods Of Darney
- Word Unspoken Sight Unseen
- Yankee Go Home
- You Dont Say
- You Dream Too Much
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
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.
------------------------------
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,
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.
------------------------------
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,
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