Righteous Woman Paul Kelly
Standard tuning
No capo
[C] [Dm] [Em]
[Em]There she stands in the spotlight[C] [D]
[Em]Now the music begins[C] [Gm]
[D]Her left leg won't stop trembling[C] [D]
[Em]But there's nowhere to run[C] [D]
[Em]The soldier sobbing at the station[C] [D]
[Em]Is taken down to the hal[C]l[Gm]
[D]He limps in late in the darknes[C]s[D]
[Em]Takes his seat in the stalls[C] [D]
Chorus:
[Em]Righteous woman starts softly like a dove at dawn[C] [D]
[Em]Righteous woman building up pressure like a slow moving storm[C] [Gm]
[D]Righteous woman giving birth to the dark unborn[C] [D]
[Em]Righteous woman
[Em]Righteous woman
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[C]Oo [Gm]Oo [D]Ooooh
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[Em]In a blanket in a box on the hospital doorstep[C] [Dm]
[Em]Lies a baby new born[C] [Gm]
[D]The nurse gently picks up the bundle[C] [D]
[Em]But the mother is gon[C]e[Gm]
[Em]In the darkness his head fall[C]s[D]
[Em]As the chorus arrives[C] [Gm]
[D]He wakes up late in the third act[C] [D]
[Em]To those radiant eye[C]s[D]
Chorus:
[Em]Righteous woman laying down the law getting on a glow[C] [D]
[Em]Righteous woman surrendering to the full ecstatic flow[C] [Gm]
[D]Now she looks out and sees the brass buttons glinting in the tenth ro[C]w[D]
[Em]Righteous woman
[Em]Righteous woman
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[C]Oo [Gm]Oo [D]Ooooh
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
N.C C D
Righteous woman hears the knock on her dressing room door
N.C C Gm
She takes the note and reads it and then lets it drop to the floor
[D]Now she drifts on down slowly to the backstage door[C] [D]
[Em]Righteous woman
[Em]Righteous woman
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[C]Oo [Gm]Oo [D]Ooooh
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
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