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Richard Thompson : Electric
2013

  1. Stony Ground
  2. Salford Sunday
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  3. Good Things Happen To Bad People
  4. Another Small Thing In Her Favour

  5. Straight And Narrow
  6. The Snow Goose
  7. Saving The Good Stuff For You

Stony Ground

E5
Gone! Long! Thorns! Stony!
Em
Old Man Morris got it bad last week
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D
Fell for the widow from across the street
Em
She clipped him in the ear and she told him what's what
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But he couldn't keep his mind off her honey pot
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D
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Silly old man with his teeth all gone
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Poking his nose where it don't belong
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She's a rose all right but she's got thorns
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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

Salford Sunday

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
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Salford Sunday, skies are weeping
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Dawn is creeping through the blind
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Salford Sunday, and I'm aching
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For the night I left behind Salford Sunday, morning after Bass drum beating in my head Sunday papers, talking scandal And a cold side of the bed
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For I left a weeping willow
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She should be lying on my pillow
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If I wasn't such a hard nose
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Such a perfect waste of time Salford Sunday, and I'm dreaming And it's all in black and white I do better when I'm dreaming Better than I did last night
Repeat intro chords
Salford Sunday, and I'm walking Though the rain is pelting down There's a train, goes back to London I hate to leave this ugly town For I left a weeping willow She should be lying on my pillow If I wasn't such a hard nose Such a perfect waste of time Salford Sunday, skies are weeping Dawn is creeping through the blind Salford Sunday, and I'm aching For the night I left behind For the night I left behind
Repeat intro chords

Good Things Happen To Bad People

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
Sweet thing, believe me You'll never deceive me You stared me down without blinking That's when I really started thinking You must have been running around You must have been running around 'Cause you were smiling Your friends say you're antsy For something fancy Like a caged bird that's broken free You want to fly high and mess on me Well, I know you've got a secret or two Your hair's in a brand new do And you're so happy Good things happen to bad people Good things happen to bad people But only, but only for a while You cried the day I walked you down the aisle And I know you've been bad from the way you smile Mona Lisa, what a teaser What's that strange cologne I'm smelling ? You know more than you're telling Well, I know you been running around I know you must have been running around 'Cause you're so happy Good things happen to bad people Good things happen to bad people But only, but only for a while You cried the day I walked you down the aisle And I know you've been bad from the way you smile Good things happen to bad people Good things happen to bad people But only, but only for a while You cried the day I walked you down the aisle And I know you've been bad from the way you smile

Another Small Thing In Her Favour

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Got her ducks all in a row
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Got her bags all packed to go
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She'll find some other poor pilgrim who's braver
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At least she looked me in the eye
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With her less than fond goodbye
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That's one small thing in her favour Got the kids in the car Dreams will get you just so far Then life gives you bitter pills to savour Still she kissed me once more As she gently slammed the door That's another small thing in her favour
Bbm
And she said she felt bad
Am?
For the home that we had
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Dm
Gm
F#sus4
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And the effort I'd wasted to save her
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Oh, she told me as much
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As she slowly let out the clutch
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That's another small thing in her favour
Instrumental verse (both parts)
Now it's a slippery slope To give her more rope And I didn't exactly enslave her And she says I'm still apart Of her wandering heart That's another small thing in her favour Now there's trouble and strife But we once had a life And for a while our vows didn't waver I relied on her smile And her love for a while Well, that's another small thing in her favour Oh, that's another small thing in her favour

Straight And Narrow

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She walks the straight and narrow
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She does what the Good Book says
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She walks the straight and narrow
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She got eyes in the back of her head, boys
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Eyes in the back of her head And when she looks to Heaven She's looking at you instead When she looks to Heaven She got eyes in the back of her head, boys Eyes in the back of her head
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And a man's a fool to need her
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A man's a fool to yearn
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Giving up everything for maybe nothing in return She walks on clouds of glory Her feet don't touch the dirt She walks on clouds of glory It'll make you tear your shirt, boys Make you tear your shirt (tear your shirt)
Instrumental verse
And a man's a fool to need her And a man's a fool to yearn Giving up everything for maybe nothing in return She trips the light fantastic But she dances all alone Her clothes are made of plastic But her heart is made of stone, boys Her heart is made of stone Well, she walks the straight and narrow She does what the Good Book says She walks the straight and narrow She got eyes in the back of her head, boys Eyes in the back of her head
Instrumental verses to end

The Snow Goose

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Northern winds will cut you
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Northern girls will gut you
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Leave you cold and empty
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Like a fish on the slab Oh, she is like a snow goose Pale and rare and footloose Will the joys that tempt me Soon turn and kick and stab
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In the dream I am running
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Down a street of molasses
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D
In the dream my feet gain no ground I must take some measure To pursue my treasure Guided by confusion My compass through the storm If I call her sister Manfully resist her Believe my own illusion Or will passions warm In the dream I am running Down a street of molasses In the dream my feet gain no ground If I call her lover Will I soon discover That her eye is taken By some fawning friend ? Then my glass would shatter And my mind would scatter Being so mistaken The world must end In the dream I am running Down a street of molasses In the dream my feet gain no ground In the dream I'm calling But there's never an answer In the dream my voice makes no sound Northern winds will cut you Northern girls will gut you Leave you cold and empty Like a fish on the slab

Saving The Good Stuff For You

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
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I've seen trouble from every direction
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My old head is peppered with grey
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I could never resist life's temptations
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Oh, they just seemed to fall in my way
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I've had wives and I treated them badly
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And maybe a lover or two
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All the time, I didn't know it
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I was saving the good stuff for you
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I was saving the good stuff for you, darling
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Saving the good stuff for you
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There was some part of me who knew, darling
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To save the good stuff for you And I even thought on occasion It was love that was making me blue Some kind of love, well, I called it love Maybe fatal attraction will do Well, I got it all out of my system My heart it is tested and true All the time, I didn't know it I was saving the good stuff for you I was saving the good stuff for you, darling Saving the good stuff for you There was some part of me who knew, darling To save the good stuff for you
Instrumental verse (both parts)
I'm glad that you never did know me When I was out of control I was hollow right there in the middle Some people got sucked in the hole But I cut myself loose from the old ways And you're all that I'm clinging to All the time, I didn't know it I was saving the good stuff for you I was saving the good stuff for you, darling Saving the good stuff for you There was some part of me who knew, darling To save the good stuff for you I was saving the good stuff for you