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Richard Thompson : You? Me? Us?
1996

  1. Razor Dance
  2. She Steers By Lightning
  3. Dark Hand Over My Heart
  4. Hide It Away
  5. Put It There Pal
  6. Business On You
  7. No's Not A Word
  8. Am I Wasting My Love On You?
  9. Bank Vault In Heaven
  10. The Ghost Of You Walks

  11. Baby Don't Know What To Do With Herself
  12. She Cut Off Her Long Silken Hair
  13. Hide It Away
  14. Cold Kisses
  15. Sam Jones
  16. Woods Of Darney

Razor Dance

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
Capo:
II
Dm
(0)x0231
Gm6/d
(0)x0330
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Dm
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Gm6/d
| ... After the death of a thousand kisses Comes the catacomb of tongues Who can spit the meanest venom From the poison of their lungs? Cruelest dance is the razor dance Circle in and circle around He said, she said, she said, he said Fail to put the other one down The razor dance The razor dance
E
A
E
A
This time, gone too far
E
A
F#
Bm
This time, can't heal the scar
C/g
D
Asus2
I want to break out of this spin
C/g
D
Asus2
But gravity's pulling me in
Em
The razor dance The razor dance What flies straighter than an arrow? What cuts deeper than a lance? Your wit may shine on the withering line Cruelest dance is the razor dance The razor dance The razor dance Blood boils, tears burn Some people never learn If time could crawl back in its shell And mischievous tongues could un-tell
C/g
D
F
But that's not the meaning of Hell
C
/b
/a
F
Take your partners for the razor dance Take your partners for the razor dance Take your partners for the razor dance
E
The razor dance The razor dance The razor dance

She Steers By Lightning

She's telling me she don't need headlights She's telling me the storm is friendly She says the volts are inviting She talks in couplets, she steers by lightning Ah, ah, ah, ah She takes a knife to my seatbelt She says the brakes need mending She says my mood needs heightening She talks in couplets, she steers by lightning Ah, ah, ah, ah Two angels sitting in the back seat They're pointing at their watches I feel eternity biting She talks in couplets, she steers by lightning Ah, ah, ah, ah My Maggie, she's got a loose one She uses Milton as a road map My Maggie, she is a bright thing She talks in couplets, she steers by lightning Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Dark Hand Over My Heart

G
Bm
Em
F
Becky loved me and I let her
G
Bm
Em
F
Wish I could have loved her better
G
Em
D#
Bb
C
On the day we pulled apart she primed a time-bomb in my heart
G
Bm
Em
F
Now there's a shadow hiding
G
Bm
Em
F
Now there's a horseman riding
G
Em
D#
Bb
Lover of all broken things, standing waiting in the wings
F
G#
F
G#
Sometimes I wonder why I love and let it die
F
G#
G
F
Can't give, can't live just to hold back, hold back
D#
Dm
D#
Dm
There's a dark hand, there's a dark hand
D#
Dm
G#
There's a dark hand over my heart There's a dark hand, there's a dark hand There's a dark hand over my heart You call me fraud and faker You call me user, taker You say I throw you scraps, prove my strength by holding back But I shine my honour brightly Swear my allegiance nightly But through my hands it slips, the same old demons paint their lips Sometimes I wonder why I love and let it die Can't give, can't live just to hold back, hold back There's a dark hand, there's a dark hand There's a dark hand over my heart There's a dark hand, there's a dark hand There's a dark hand over my heart

Hide It Away

I sigh when people pass by And I hide it away I wipe a tear from my eye And I hide it away When I need you the most I hold the ghost of you inside So I keep the flame And go on my way Laugh at the game And I hide it away Hide it away Hide it away I break down in the street And I hide it away Can't speak, can't move my feet And I hide it away I smile through the mask of my face But deep and wide is the hurt inside So I live to love Some other day Laugh at the game And I hide it away Hide it away Hide it away When I need you the most I hold the ghost of you inside So I keep the flame And go on my way Laugh at the game And I hide it away Hide it away Hide it away Hide it away

Put It There Pal

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Em
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Am6/c
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x4
G
D
Old friend, it's been so long, and it's been so real
Em
Am
C
D
And if I helped you once it was no big deal
G
B
Too bad I can't be there when they call your name
Em
Am
F#
B
They're going to write you down in the hall of fame
Am
You really got what you wanted, I'm thrilled as pie
B
Am
It really couldn't happen to a nicer guy
Em
Am
Em
Am
Put it there pal, put it there
G
G/gb
Em
C
Now and then just throw me a crumb
Em
Am
Em
Am
Put it there pal, put it there
C
G/gb
Em
C
Thanks for the help when I needed it, chum
D
Am
You saw me drowning, you said I was a fake and laughed
D
Am9/g#
Then you jumped right in and used me for a raft
Em
Am
Em
Am
You shot me down with friendly fire
Em
Am
Em
Am
You were all dressed up to play Gun For Hire
Em
Am
Em
Am
The rope you threw me was made of barbed wire
C
D
Bm
But put it there pal, put it there, pal
Em
Put it there
G
D
I know you mean well, call me a sentimental fool
Em
Am
C
D
I know sometimes you've got to be kind to be cruel
G
B
When you pat me on the back, that was quite some slap
Em
Am
F#
B
That kind of compliment, it could kill a chap
Am
B
So I'll drink your health, oh this emotion's given me a thirst
Am
B
But maybe I'll have my food-taster drink it first
Em
Am
Em
Am
Put it there pal, put it there
G
Em
C
You deserve everything you got coming
Em
Am
Em
Am
Put it there pal, put it there
G
Em
C
Call me up if you want to come slumming
D
Am
Some say you're a rattlesnake in the grass
D
Am9/g#
But I say the sun shines out of your arse
Em
Am
Em
Am
So it's no hard feelings, live and let live
Em
Am
Em
Am
With a gift like yours, you're born to give
Em
Am
Em
Am
You're so full of love it leaks out like a sieve
C
D
Bm
So put it there pal, put it there, pal
Em
Put it there Put it there Put it there Put it there, pal Put it there, pal Put it there, pal

Business On You

I got sinister things waiting for you in my rattle bag Egyptian rings, and the dust of kings, and the tooth of a hag The bones of Keats, the tongues of cheats, and a mad dog's eye And I'm going to make you love me and you won't know why I've got all the magic I need, all the magic I need I've got all the magic I need I'm going to do the business on you I'm going to do the business on you I'm going to do the business on you I've got all the magic I need I've got a drop of Elvis' sweat from Caesar's Palace I've got Virginia McKenna's tears from A Town Like Alice I've got a hair from the underwear of the Empress Josephine And I'm going to come for you, darling, in the middle of a dream I've got all the magic I need, I've got all the magic I need I've got all the magic I need I'm going to do the business on you I'm going to do the business on you I'm going to do the business on you I've got all the magic I need I've got war paints, the skulls of saints, don't you want to see 'em The blood of popes, and Tyburn ropes from the Black Museum I've got Frederick Delius' finger, Wordsworth's tattoo And I'm going to love you with everything, and I think you're going to love me too I've got all the magic I need, all the magic I need I've got all the magic I need I'm going to do the business on you I'm going to do the business on you I'm going to do the business on you I've got all the magic I need

No's Not A Word

I'm going to pretend you like me too All of my messages come from you If I keep it up it might even drive you crazy I'm going to pretend you're my squeeze Arm in arm on the Champs Elysee If I keep it up it's the only thing might save me All of my life is a ritual dance, a ritual dance around you And the worship hurts to pieces Touch me here, touch me here on the precious jewel I wear in my head for you That only your hand releases Let me steal your thunder, won't you? Let me be your boy wonder, won't you? Let me thrill you, will you, won't you? And no's not a word we use around here No's not a word we use around here No's not a word we use around here I'm going to pretend you're head over heels Sending me flowers, cooking me meals If I keep it up it might even drive you crazy I'm going to pretend we don't even sleep Bending the bed springs, dogs on heat If I keep it up it's the only thing that might save me You don't need me creeping around, creeping around your door Like a lovesick labrador You don't need a bird-brain from the bottom of the food chain At the Rory O'More But it's what you'll get for sure Oh let me steal your thunder, won't you? Let me be your boy wonder, won't you? Let me thrill you, will you, won't you? And no's not a word we use around here No's not a word we use around here No's not a word we use around here Oh no's not a word we use around here No's not a word we use around here No's not a word we use around here I said no's not a word No's not a word No's not a word

Am I Wasting My Love On You?

Oh I can't get started And I'm broken hearted You smile so sweet But you're fast on your feet Do you want me to catch you Or just get near? Should I chase you forever? I think I got the idea Am I wasting my love on you? Am I wasting my love on you? Am I wasting my love on you? Must be better things I can do Oh I went to a party You were standing there You looked so retiring With that fruit in your hair I said "What gives?" And you said "I do" And that was the last sense I ever got from you Am I wasting my love on you? Am I wasting my love on you? Am I wasting my love on you? Must be better things I can do Well I'm wasting my love, wasting my love Wasting my love on you Wasting my love, wasting my love Wasting my love on you Well, am I wasting my love on you? Am I wasting my love on you? Am I wasting my love on you? Must be better things I can do I went to your house And I drank your tea We were getting very cosy On Greek philosophy You chewed my ear And when I begged for more You went off to bed Barricaded the door Am I wasting my love on you? Am I wasting my love on you? Am I wasting my love on you? Must be better things (Must be better things) I can do (I can do) Than wasting my love, wasting my love Wasting my love on you Am I wasting my love, wasting my love Wasting my love on you? I'm wasting my love, wasting my love Wasting my love on you Am I wasting my love, wasting my love Wasting my love on you?

Bank Vault In Heaven

F
D
F
D
Got a bank vault in heaven, got my name on the door
Am
Gm
D
Every day I get richer, add a little bit more
F
D
F
D
Come you tellers and lenders and lend me some more
Am
Gm
D
Got a bank vault in heaven and it's mine for evermore
Dm
F
Am
Dm
And the angels sing "Fly, fly, fly"
F
Am
Dm
The angels sing "Fly, fly, fly"
F
C
Gm
Fly from the darkness that covers you all
F
C
Gm
Bb
C
D
Fly to the sky where the only wall is infinity, infinity Going to shine down from heaven right into your room Take the minds of your children right off to the moon Every mud hut and igloo, every penthouse and farm I'll shine down from heaven and I'll do my snake charm And the angels say "Sing, sing, sing", "Sing, sing, sing" Oh the whole world is singing the same happy tune Something so low even hound dogs can croon to insanity, insanity Oh there's a signpost in heaven, in the firmament blue You can run to the wastelands, but it points straight at you I've got a bank vault in heaven, what joy will it bring All you Punches and Judys, I'll be pulling your strings

The Ghost Of You Walks

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
Capo:
II
Dadd9#11 00213x
D6 004432
D7b5 0x0112
D
Dadd9#11
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D
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x2
D
Dadd9#11
D
If that was our goodbye kiss
D
Dadd9#11
D
Seems a habit too good to miss
Em7
D6
Once more for the memory Hit the heights too well that time To leave it there would be a crime Seems more like a beginning to me
D
E7
F#
B/f#
C#7
At least we tried
F#
B/f#
C#7
Took the biggest bite
F#
B/f#
C#7
At least we did it right
F#
A#
Ebm
With all our souls and all our might
B/eb
Ebm
Blue murder on the dance floor
B/eb
Ebm
French kisses in the rain
B/eb
Ebm
Blood wedding in the water
B
F#
Till I see you again
B/f#
C#7
F#
Dutch courage is the game
B/f#
C#7
F#
And the ghost of you walks
B/f#
C#7
F#
The ghost of you walks
B/f#
C#7
D
The ghost of you walks
D
Dadd9#11
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D
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x2
The ghost of you walks right through my head Sleepwalks at the foot of my bed Sends old shivers over my skin Love like that, won't let go It's got some kind of a mind of its own I can't break out and I can't break in At least we lived Took it all at a rush At least we loved too much Felt too much, cared too much Blue murder on the dance floor French kisses in the rain Blood wedding in the water Until I see you again Dutch courage is the game And the ghost of you walks The ghost of you walks The ghost of you walks
D
Dadd9#11
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D
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x2
D7b5

Baby Don't Know What To Do With Herself

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
Capo:
II
Dm 003231 Cmaj7 x32000
Dm7 0x0x98 Gm6 5x03x0
Dm9 0x0560 Bb6 x1303x
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Dm
Gm6
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Dm
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Bb6
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Dm
Gm6
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Dm
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Bb6
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Dm/a
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Dm
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Dm
Oh baby, she don't know what to do with herself
Dm
Gm6
Dm
Oh baby, she don't know what to do with herself
F
She might wipe her tears on a rusty nail
F
Cmaj7
G
Rest her cheek on a cold steel rail
Dm
/c
/b
/bb
Dm
Oh baby, she don't know what to do with herself Oh baby, she don't know what to do with herself I said baby, she don't know what to do with herself When trouble comes down, it comes in threes Catches her breath and she falls to her knees Oh baby, she don't know what to do with herself
Dm
Gm6
Dm
Bb6
And I gaze on, gaze on And I gaze on, gaze on |
Dm/a
/f
/e
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Dm
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Dm
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Dm7
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Dm9
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Dm
| Ah baby, she don't know what to do with herself Oh baby, she don't know what to do with herself She presses her lips on the window pane Cries "God in Heaven" again and again Oh baby, she don't know what to do with herself And I gaze on, gaze on And I gaze on, gaze on And I gaze on, gaze on

She Cut Off Her Long Silken Hair

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
Capo:
II
F6 3x323x Gm 555333
F6/a x0323x C/e 232010
D
Midnight in her room
D/f#
G
D
There was music and incense and mirrors all round
Bm
/a
By the light of the moon
Em
G
Asus2
A
Her silver dress slipped to the ground
D
Then she knelt like St Joan
D/f#
G
D
And invisible armies attended her there
Bm
/a
And her knife brightly shone
Em
A
D
G/d
D
As she cut off her long silken hair
F#m
Bm
Trapped, I suppose
F#m
C#
C#7
Lied for my sake
Em
F#
F#7
Crushed like the rose
Bm
Em
G
A
That somebody picked by mistake Oh I knew it would come I knew she would leave me for some better start Oh I knew it would come She was too well rehearsed in her part And I measured my life And my heart fairly broke with the sorrow and care As she took down the knife And she cut off her long silken hair Oh there's some who believe Oh there's some who believe there are reasons to lie And there's some who deceive And the truth is right there in their eyes Oh but I don't see why In all of my life I've seen nothing so fair And I don't see why She cut off her long silken hair
Bb
/f
D
I don't see why
Gm
Bb/f
Em7b5
D
I don't see why

Hide It Away

Capo:
II
Aadd9 x0242x
Am7 x0555x
D/a x0423x
Aadd9
Am7
I sigh when people pass by and I hide it away
Aadd9
Am7
I wipe a tear from my eye and I hide it away
D
B7
Am7
When I need you the most, I hold the ghost of you inside
D/a
Am7
D/a
Am7
So I keep the flame, and go on my way
D/a
Am7
D
Aadd9
Laugh at the game and I hide it away
Am7
D/a
Aadd9
Hide it away
Am7
D/a
Am
Hide it away I break down in the street and I hide it away Can't speak, can't move my feet and I hide it away I smile through the mask of my face But deep and wide is the hurt inside So I live to love some other day Laugh at the game and I hide it away Hide it away Hide it away When I need you the most I hold the ghost of you inside So I keep the flame, and go on my way Laugh at the game and I hide it away Hide it away Hide it away Hide it away

Cold Kisses

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
F#m(b9) 4440xx
Gadd9#11 5x022x
F#m(b9)
D
Em
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Em
Here I am in your room, going through your stuff
D/f#
G
D
Em
Said you'd be gone five minutes, that's time enough
Em
Here in your drawer there's lacy things
D/f#
G
D
Em
Old credit cards, beads, bangles and rings
Am
G
But I think I've found what I'm looking for
Am
G
Hidden away at the back of the drawer
D/f#
Em
Here's the life that you led before
F#m(b9)
D
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Em
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Em
| Old photographs of the life you led Arm-in-arm with Mr X, Y and Z Old boyfriends, big and small Got to see how I measure up to them all
Bm
A
Gadd9#11
There is a place we all must start, love
Bm
A
Gadd9#11
Em
Who were you holding in that fond embrace?
Bm
A
Gadd9#11
I've found a door into your heart, love
Em
D
Csus2/e
Em
And do you still feel the warmth of cold kisses? Here I am behind enemy lines Looking for secrets, looking for signs Old boyfriends big and small Got to see how I measure up to them all This one's handsome, not too bright This one's clever with his hands alright Tougher than me if it came to a fight This one's a poet, bit of a wet A bit of a gypsy, a bit of a threat I wonder if she's got over him yet Old passions frozen in the second Who were you holding in that fond embrace? Hearts have a past that must be reckoned And do you still feel the warmth of cold kisses?
Em
Time to put the past away
D/f#
G
D
Em
That's your footstep in the street I'd say
Em
Tie the ribbon back around it
D/f#
G
D
Em
Everything just the way I found it I can hear you turn the key And my head's buried when you see me In a Margaret Millar mystery
Em
D
C
Em
And do you still feel the warmth of cold kisses?
Em
D
C
Em
Do you still feel the warmth of cold kisses?

Sam Jones

Tuning: DADGBE
Bm
Me name is Sam Jones and it's bones my occupation
D
Chuck your old hocks out for my consideration
Dm
Thirty years a bone man, up and down the nation
D
A
Bm
Sam Jones deliver them bones I've been among the shamrock and I've been among the thistle I like it all picked over, clean as a whistle No sign of meat on, no sign of gristle Sam Jones deliver them bones
Em
I've seen battlefields white with human ivory
Bm
Noble dukes and princes stripped of flesh and finery
Em
When the crows have done their job, they say that's the time for me
G
F#5
Sam Jones deliver them bones And I even dream of bones when I'm lying very ill Rooms full of skeletons a-dancing the quadrille Rows and rows of skulls singing Blueberry Hill Sam Jones deliver them bones And if you're unburied, the likes of me will find you You're no good to worms, but you might become the finest glue We'll grind you up and spread you out as fertiliser, too Sam Jones deliver them bones And I've got a lorry, it's me own boneshaker Where's there old knuckle joints I'll be the undertaker I'll come calling 'round just like the butcher and the baker Sam Jones deliver them bones Me name is Sam Jones and it's bones my occupation Chuck your old hocks out for my consideration Thirty years a bone man, up and down the nation Sam Jones deliver them bones Sam Jones deliver them bones
D
A
G
Bm
Sam Jones deliver them bones

Woods Of Darney

Capo:
III
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 You looked shy in your grandmother's wedding dress Feet set wide like a farm girl stands Too young to love and too young to lose 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 When we stood down at last it was easy to find you Mine was the shoulder you cried on that day Just an old comrade doing his duty 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
F
G
F
G
F
Dm
Now we lie in the darkness together Often we lie without speaking this way As you stare in the dark do you see your young corporal Who never came back from the Woods of Darney Is it him that you see when we make love together Is it him that you see when war fills the sky Was he there as you stood in your grandmother's wedding dress 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 And I'll carry your picture the one that he carried I'll wear your innocence and take my chance On a frozen field, in a far-flung war To win back what we lost in a field in France And it's many a soldier who goes into battle Your corporal and I, we just hear and obey Perhaps we'll lie in the darkness together With your love to bind us, in the Woods of Darney