Richard Thompson : Old Kit Bag

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)

D

F/d

C/d

G/d

D

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D

F/d

C/d

G/d

Among the headstones you played as boys

D

F/d

C/d

G/d

Crypts and tombs like a roomful of toys

D

F/d

C/d

G/d

Just up the river from the smoke and the noise

D

F/d

C/d

G/d

D

Gethsemane And there's war-whoops and secret signs in the trees Estuary smells coming up on the breeze Oh perfect, endless days like these Oh Gethsemane

Bb

C

Sailboat on the Cadie, pushbike on the quay

Dm

Bb

In your eyes there's fire, in your hand destiny

F

Bb

Dm

G

Dm

G

Oh be something, be something fine! Fine! Just down the river, into the noise and the smoke Being daring with the staring, uncaring folk Who laugh with you, laugh at you, you'll never get the joke Gethsemane And they broke your spirit there in the marines Flushed your head down in the latrines Frozen in your sacrament, derailed in your teens Never saw the enemy And those bosses betrayed, soon let you go The fire in your eyes, how could they know Oh be something, be something fine! Now you've got your own boys, hell bent for leather Dead before they're 18, or bitter old men forever They never saw the halo moon rise over the river Of Gethsemane Now there's a pain in your head puts lead in your shoes Better get it seen to, it's going to be bad news How did the perfect world get so confused Oh Gethsemane Who sucked out the freedom, days without end Under the weight of it all you must bend Oh be something, be something fine!

D

Oh sweet Rosie Lee Like a sister to me But you thought I was playing you smart

F

D

F

A

F

D

F

D

Jealous words won't lie still in my heart You saw us there dancing And you thought us romancing Suspicion has ripped us apart Jealous words won't lie still in my heart

G

With your interpretation on my reputation

D

You blinded yourself to the truth

G

To add some more weight to your ramblings of late

F

A

Well, dear won't you bring us some proof How you cursed and you cried As you locked me outside You said I was bad from the start Jealous words won't lie still in my heart How your father abused And your mother accused They said I was acting a part Jealous words won't lie still in my heart Oh I knew when we met you'd never forget Each pothole and bump in the road And if I left your side what a blow to your pride You're that better than me I suppose Oh the doubt in me is growing And it hurts me just knowing Another night's sleep will depart Jealous words won't lie still in my heart

B5

Don't mind me, friend of a friend

D

Bent the key to my lost weekend Don't mind me, along for the ride Diz the gas man says it's all right

E

I'll tag along

G

And get a taste of things

E

And flap my little wings

B5

I'll tag along You could be my kind of crowd Little bit edgy, little bit loud I test the water, I feel the heat Before I jump in with both feet I'll tag along I'll keep out of your hair You'll hardly know I'm there I'll tag along

A/b

G/b

Love those swirly whirly lights Love that girl with the rips down her tights Might have to hurl when the Molotov bites

E

B5

E

G

B5

I'll tag along I didn't do it, it wasn't me I was right at the back, invisible, see? I'm 100 per cent, and that's a fact You can ask Diz , I'll be right back I'll tag along And get a taste of things And flap my little wings I'll tag along Light fantastic, pop a few My brain's elastic, appetite too Cash or plastic? I'd kill for the loo I'll tag along

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)

Am

F

Now I remember the promise I gave you

C

D

The night I shipped out as a peace volunteer As we sat holding hands in the Lamb and Flag tavern I swore I'd be back for you same time next year But I killed a man in a Brazzaville street fight I tried to hold back, but he taunted me so Five years till they freed me from that Brazzaville prison Out of boredom or pity, I never will know

F

Now I bear the stain

G

The scar on my name

D

F

G

Em

And I never can go back again

Am

D

G

And there's a love, a love you can't survive There's a love, a love you can't survive

F

G

And it tears you up inside

D

F

G

Em

There's a love you can't survive I sailed my boat into New Orleans harbour Tied up at the jetty, as bold as you please With a half ton of charlie built in to the bulkhead Right under the noses of all them police Now here I sit in my house on the mountain I'm king of the clouds and all I survey There's women who are willing, and the law can't touch me But yours is the one face that won't go away But I bear the stain The scar on my name And I never can go back again And there's a love, a love you can't survive There's a love, a love you can't survive And it tears, it tears you up inside And it tears you up inside There's a love, there's a love you can't survive There's a love, oh, you can't survive

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)

A

D/a

A

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A

One door opens, another shuts behind One sun sets and another sun she rises Love comes to you in old familiar ways Love comes to you in shadows and disguises

D

G/d

D

G/d

D7

G/d

D

She may quit you and she may forsake you

D

G/d

D

A

Drift away like a phantom in a fever Who walks into your heart of solitude? Who walks into the lair of the deceiver?

D

They say it was my turn

Cadd9

They say I had it coming

D

They say that's what you earn For living through a lie If I could have my way I'd leave it all tomorrow There's sorrow if I stay I've other fish to fry

Em

When love breaks like a precious string of pearls A thousand memories, they roll away and scatter Make believe that there's ice runs through my veins Shrug my shoulders as if it doesn't matter

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)

Em7/bb x12030

Dm7

G

Let's love, what's left

F

Dsus4

Let's dance, first breath New friends, hard won Old hearts, shine on

F6

E7

The frost is cruel

F6

E7

And fades the sign

F6

E7

On that little place

Em7/bb

A7sus4

That I call mine Let's love, what's left Like new born, first breath Old stars, new shine Old cup, new wine Sun rise, moon glow Someday, we'll know Inch by inch Word by word The lock is sprung That caged the bird Let's love, what's left Last dance, first breath

D

G/d

D

G/d

Eb

Gm

/f

Is this the togetherness she meant? So rosy

Eb

Gm

/f

I thought we'd share a continent? So cosy

Eb

I thought love's passions really

Cm

A7

A7+

A7

Would be more touchy-feely, well, well

D

Bm

Em

She said it was destiny

D

Bm

Em

She said it was written somewhere

C

G

But if it was destiny

Em

A7

Why am I over here and she's over there?

D

Bm

Em

She said it was in the stars

D

Bm

Em

Something that just had to be

C

G

But Venus aligned with Mars

Em

A7

D

Always really takes it out of me Oh I'm not proud of my deceit - you know that To come so near and then retreat - you know that One beat before I fell somewhere I heard a bell - ring, ring She said it was destiny... There's clouds across my crystal ball - too misty Was I too quick to give it all - when she kissed me She's thrown a net on me, razor wire geometry She said it was destiny...

I wish you well And darling keep in touch And if he loves you I hope he loves you as much It's just my fantasy You leaving him for me I've got no right to have it all Life's little gifts I know I've had my share And for a while I know I had you there Who carries the pain For me to love again I've got no right to have it all If time stopped in its tracks Is that what paradise might be? I'll cling like a drowning man To my driftwood piece of memory And where's the peace of mind Among the debris left behind This is the point Where we act crazy or sane We walk away now Never to embrace again I'll say God bless And wish you happiness I've got no right to have it all

My screenplay's on the block My Tuscan villa's in hock To Mister Pearly Jim My wife and kids have scrammed They say my phone is jammed By Mister Pearly Jim He dresses up in rags He's mister money bags They call him Pearly Jim He'll show you Paradise At least some place quite nice They call him Pearly Jim Why did you wait so long? Can you help him sing his song? Alms for the poor Alms for the poor We need ketchup on our bangers and mash This self-denial brings us out in a rash I'm rolling dice for gin I'm getting sliced too thin By Mister Pearly Jim I mortgaged my des-res He needs a boost, he says Does Mister Pearly Jim He's got a compound down The balmy side of town The guards 'll give you shits He's got a pearly suit For every new recruit You'll feel so thrilled to bits When he grits that pearly smile Will you go that extra mile? Alms for the poor Alms for the poor Chairman Mao's got a whole lot of thoughts And R.D. Laing's got me tied up in knots Does your conscience ever scream Between the chaos and the dream Alms for the poor Alms for the poor To save time just pay us here on the street The whole universe will be our receipt

Dm

E

C#

C

Bb

I must leave this tainted place of slow and hidden pain

Am

A

By all and any means

Dm

E

C#

C

Bb

All the past I shall erase and never look again

Am

A

On child's memories

F

Bb

F

If you'll have me, truly have me

C

F

Bb

C

Word unspoken, sight unseen

F

Bb

F

I'm newborn to be your lover

C

F

Bb

C

Word unspoken, sight unseen Take my trophies from the rack, the medals from my chest The walls wash clean All my life is on my back and swiftness suits me best I'm travelling lean If you'll have me, truly have me Word unspoken, sight unseen I'm newborn to be your lover Word unspoken, sight unseen So I come to you a shell make of me what you must And I shall bend What you need I cannot tell but I shall sweep the dust And patch and mend If you'll have me, truly have me Word unspoken, sight unseen I'm newborn to be your lover Word unspoken, sight unseen

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)

Capo:

III

Dm 0x023x C/d 0x0550

Dsus4 0x003x Cadd9 03203x

Bb/d 0x033x Bb6 x1303x

Dm

Dsus4

God never listened to Charlie Parker

Bb/d

C/d

Bb/d

Dm

Charlie Parker lived in vain

Bm

Dsus4

Blasphemer, womanizer

Bb/d

C/d

Bb/d

Dm

Let a needle numb his brain

Dm

Cadd9

Wash away his monkey music

Bb6

/f

/e

Dm

Damn his demons, damn his pain And what's the point of Albert Einstein What do we need Physics for? Heresy's his inspiration Corrupt and rotten to the core Curse his devious mathematics Curse his deadly atom war

G

There's a message on the wind

Dm

Calling me to glory somewhere

G

There are signs too deep for the dumb

Dm

Like perfume in the air

C

And when I get to heaven

Am

F

Dm

I won't realize that I'm there Shakespeare, Isaac Newton Small ideas for little boys Adding to the senseless chatter Adding to the background noise Hard to hear my oratory Hard to hear my inner voice Van Gogh, Botticelli Scraping paint onto a board Colour is the fuel of madness That's no way to praise the Lord Gray's the colour of the pious Knelt upon the misery cord There's a message on the wind... I'm familiar with the cover I don't need to read the book I police the world of action Inside's where I can never look Got no time to help the worthless Lotus-eaters, Mandarins, crooks There's a message on the wind...

Tuning: CGDGBE (Drop C/g)

Capo:

IV

G

He said, Dear, I'm leaving, right there in the hallway

C

As the party roared on all around

G

And her head wouldn't turn, oh she couldn't look at him

D

Am

D

In a whirlpool she quietly drowned

Em

B7

Em

B7

She said to herself, I won't cry, I won't grieve

Em

G/d

G

C

I'll laugh and I'll flow with the wine

C/g

G

With the fast love of strangers we'll sing Sweet Bye and Bye

D

G

Happy days and Auld Lang Syne

G

How I wish I knew All the old songs they're singing Such comfort they're bringing

G/b

C

D

To a heart that's as empty as mine

Am

Oh it lifts you so high

G/b

Does the Sweet Bye and Bye

D

G

Happy days and Auld Lang Syne And she said, I'll be wearing my smile like a mask And I'll care for each stranger I kiss And no one will know that I'm wounded and cheated So close to my moment of bliss And sometimes you never connect with a song Till it's telling the way that you feel Putting words to your story, all the pain and the glory How can it be written so real How I wish I knew All the old songs they're singing Such comfort they're bringing To a heart that's as empty as mine Oh it lifts you so high Does the Sweet Bye and Bye Happy days and Auld Lang Syne

Richard Thompson : Old Kit Bag
2004

Gethsemane

Jealous Words

I'll Tag Along

A Love You Can't Survive

One Door Opens

First Breath

She Said It Was Destiny

I've Got No Right To Have It All

Pearly Jim

Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen

Outside Of The Inside

Happy Days And Auld Lang Syne

Richard Thompson : Old Kit Bag 2004

Gethsemane

Jealous Words

I'll Tag Along

A Love You Can't Survive

One Door Opens

First Breath

She Said It Was Destiny

I've Got No Right To Have It All

Pearly Jim

Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen

Outside Of The Inside

Happy Days And Auld Lang Syne

Richard Thompson : Old Kit Bag
2004