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Richard Thompson : Misc: Electric

  1. Fork In The Road
  2. Hand Of Kindness
  3. Missie, How You Let Me Down
  4. Patty, Don't You Put Me Down
  5. She Never Could Resist A Winding Road
  6. Stony Ground
  7. Take Care The Road You Choose
  8. Wrong Heartbeat

Fork In The Road

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x7
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A
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B
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A
D/a
A
D/a
A
E
An Esperanto lullaby is keeping me in stitches
A
D/a
A
D/a
A
E
Don't know what she's saying but the sound of it bewitches
D
C#m
F#sus4
Oh, it's over my head, she thinks she's queen for a day, hurray
E
A
B
Which way? Passion or poison? Which way? Get the highway code All questions, no answers Standing here at a fork in the road
E
At a fork in the road Now Eglantine, she takes her time, she takes good aim and fires A crystal ball is hard to read when it's tangled in the wires Oh, it's over my head, she thinks she's queen for a day, hurray Which way? Passion or poison? Which way? Get the highway code All questions, no answers Standing here at a fork in the road
C
At a fork in the road
Guitar solo in new key. The next verse starts in this key,
but returns to the original key for the last line and choruses.
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C
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Bb
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F
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G
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C
F/c
C
F/c
C
G
Miss Carnaby she wants to be Calliope on meth
C
F/c
C
F/c
C
G
She fits the job description if she doesn't bleed to death
D
C#m
F#sus4
But it's all in her head, nobody made her that way, hurray Which way? Passion or poison? Which way? Get the highway code All questions, no answers Standing here at a fork in the road At a fork in the road

Hand Of Kindness

Well, I wove the rope And I picked the spot Well, I stuck out my neck And I tightened the knot Oh, stranger, stranger I'm near out of time You stretch out your hand I stretch out mine Maybe just the hand of kindness Maybe just the hand of kindness Maybe just a hand Stranger will you reach me in time In time Well I scuppered the ship And I bent the rail And I cut the brake And I ripped the sail And they called me a Jonah It's a sin I survived You stretch out your hand I stretch out mine Maybe just the hand of kindness... Shoot that old horse Break in the new The hung are many The living are few I see your intention Here's my neck on the line You stretch out your hand I stretch out mine Maybe just the hand of kindness...

Missie, How You Let Me Down

Em
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G
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A
Em
D
Hailstones and a sickle moon and the north wind races
Em
D
One more night of running my mind over lost embraces
Em
The steps you made when you walked away
D
A/c#
G
A/g
Still frozen in the ground
A/g
G
D/f#
A
G
Oh, Missie, how you let me down
A/g
G
D/f#
A
G
Oh, Missie, how you let me down
A/g
G
A
D
A/c
Bm
Oh, Missie, how you let me down
Em
A
And lies won't break my fall
Em
D/f#
G
Lies won't break my fall Your food's still sitting there at the table where you used to be The shape of you is still in the bed there, next to me Maybe I could find some trace Of you to keep around
A/g
G
D/f#
A
G
Oh, Missie, how you let me down
A/g
G
A
D
A/c
Bm
Oh, Missie, how you let me down
A
For far too long you kept me waiting
F#m
G
Reaching out into empty air
A
F#m
Even now you'd never say it face to face
G
That you really don't care
A
And if you never liked pulling teeth then why?
D
A
G
Why did you tie me in the dentist's chair? Ah, you left your mark on this old place, that you did I could stew in here like a pressure cooker and screw down the lid Or maybe I should just take a match And burn the whole thing to the ground Oh, Missie, how you let me down Oh, Missie, how you let me down Oh, Missie, how you let me down Oh, Missie, how you let me down Oh, Missie, how you let me down Oh, Missie, how you let me down And lies won't break my fall Lies won't break my fall

Patty, Don't You Put Me Down

Capo:
III
Em
Patty don't tell me one thing and change your mind
Am
Em
We might be in bed together but the deal's not signed
Am
Em
They say you collect shrunken heads, would you like to have mine?
G
C
Patty, don't you put me down
G
C
Patty, don't you put me down
F#
Bm
Patty, don't you put me down
Em
A
Don't colour me cruel
Em
A
Don't colour me cruel You're so used to skimming the ace and palming the jack The right hand giving and the left hand taking it back At society functions they probably give you more slack Patty, don't you put me down Patty, don't you put me down Patty, don't you put me down Don't colour me cruel Don't colour me cruel
Instrumental verse
C7 shape, descending chromatically from D7:
D7
You can stamp all you want, but this ain't television
C#7
I can't fix it all with a small incision
C7
It's a meltdown you're having, not nuclear fission
B7
There's no room service at the seaman's mission In your ten watt world it's beyond any pleasure you know To stick your fingers in the socket, and give yourself a glow Keep that up and they might make you part of the show Patty, don't you put me down Patty, don't you put me down Patty, don't you put me down

She Never Could Resist A Winding Road

D
In the old, cold embers of the year
G
D
When joy and comfort disappear
G
I search around to find her
Em
I'm a hundred miles behind her
G
A
D
The open road whispered in her ear And she never could resist a winding road She never could resist a winding road Maybe just around the bend A rainbow waiting at the end She never could resist a winding road And she never could stay any place too long To not be standing still's where she belongs If you love her, better know She needs you now, but soon she'll go She never could stay any place too long
Bm
G
It's not that she don't care about you
Bm
G
Say you love her, she don't doubt you
Bm
G
But she can learn to live without you
Em
A
When she hears the call
Instrumental verse
Love her now and let her be Don't lie down, just set her free Too many things she wants to see The whole wide world, that's all And she never could resist a winding road She never could resist a winding road Maybe just around the bend A rainbow waiting at the end
G
A
Bm
/a
She never could resist a winding road
G
A
Bm
/a
She never could resist a winding road
G
A
D
She never could resist a winding road

Stony Ground

E5
Gone! Long! Thorns! Stony!
Em
Old Man Morris got it bad last week
Em
D
Fell for the widow from across the street
Em
She clipped him in the ear and she told him what's what
Em
D
But he couldn't keep his mind off her honey pot
G
D
Em
Silly old man with his teeth all gone
G
D
Em
Poking his nose where it don't belong
G
D
Em
She's a rose all right but she's got thorns
G
Em
You're working on stony (stony) ground He lost his heart to Buxom Betty Throwing out the compliments like confetti Left and right, he threw them all around But everything landed on stony ground Silly old man with his teeth all gone Poking his nose where it don't belong She's a rose all right but she's got thorns You're working on stony ground Widow's got a brother, henchman too A pair of gorillas from the London Zoo They call on Morris and they tell him what's what But he can't keep his mind off her honey pot Silly old man with his teeth all gone Poking his nose where it don't belong She's a rose all right but she's got thorns Working on stony ground They kicked him in the head, they poked him in the eyes Shoved him in the gutter and there he lies Dripping with blood, dripping with snot But he's still dreaming of her you-know-what Silly old man with his teeth all gone Poking his nose where it don't belong She's a rose all right but she's got thorns Working on stony ground But you're working on stony ground Stony ground Stony ground Stony ground Stony ground

Take Care The Road You Choose

E
If I ever get out of these shoes
B
E
And I shrug off a skin or two
E
I'll come looking in all the wasted places
B
E
Beat-up, last ditch rendezvous
A
E
If it had been some other place, some other time to find me
A
E
If I had been in my right mind not looking for ghosts behind me
B
A
Then I'd hold you with my fingers burning
B
A
Kiss away your little tears of yearning
B
A
But sometimes there's no turning
A
E
Take care the road you choose If I ever get out of my mind Guillotine myself to stop me dreaming And let my heart go where it will Without those other voices screaming Some take the high, some take the low, some take the straight and narrow Some still standing at the crossroads, some flying like an arrow With my radar I'll find you, darling No regrets to blind you, darling And never look behind Take care the road you choose
Solo
If it had been some other place, some other time to find me If I had been in my right mind not looking for ghosts behind me Then I'd hold you with my fingers burning Kiss away your little tears of yearning But sometimes there's no turning Take care the road you choose

Wrong Heartbeat

G
F
G
F
Don't think my love is something that you can play with
G
F
G
F
I'm not the one to spend the time of day with
C
G
F
G
F
You learn to hide love, you lock it up or find it gone
D
B7
C
You think you need me, you think you read me from the beating of my heart
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F
C
But you're listening to the wrong heartbeat
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F
C
Oh you're listening to the wrong heartbeat
G
Bm
F
You're listening to the wrong heartbeat
D
Em
My love is strong If you should see a tear, you won't see many If you should hear me sigh, it's not for any If you should greet me as I am walking along You only want to see just the shell of me You don't know the other part But you're listening to the wrong heartbeat Oh you're listening to the wrong heartbeat You're listening to the wrong heartbeat My love is strong
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x4
D#
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F#
D
B
C
But you're listening to the wrong heartbeat Oh you're listening to the wrong heartbeat You're listening to the wrong heartbeat My love is strong Don't throw your secrets where men will steal them You got to hide them, you got to seal them No matter what you try, you'll never take my love from me And if you might think that you can move me From the beating of my heart But you're listening to the wrong heartbeat Oh you're listening to the wrong heartbeat You're listening to the wrong heartbeat My love is strong