Topic: MAGGIE COULTER
This is from a project I've set myself called "PARK" it's about the people that you might find in any park in any town any where. Not this song of course as it mentions Cardiff and St. Davids in Pembrokeshire Wales. I based Maggies personna on my grandmother, if you go to www.myspace.com/phillwilliamswelshman you'll hear the song and see her picture.
hope you like it
MAGGIE COULTERUndefined
[G] Along the [D] roads up and [Em] down the [C] land
[G] You see them [D] walking and [Em7] holding out their hands
[G] Spare a [D] thought for the [C] way they live their [C] lives
Don't let the [Am] dirt on their [G] faces cloud the [D] goodness in your [G] mind
(REPEAT SAME CHORD PATTERN FOR ALL VERSES)
VERSE 2
She gave her name as Maggie Coulter
Just 45 but she looked much older
There seemed no reason for her to tell a lie...
Sometimes the truth is stranger than suspicions in your mind
chorus
[C] God [G] bless the [D] stranger
[C] Look [G] kindly on the [D] ones who have no home
[C] Say a [G] prayer for Maggie [D] Coulter
[C] And her [G] kind who live and [D] die [G] alone
VERSE 3
In the winter of 1959
Maggie found herself walking down the line
And the wind would blow the skin right off your face...
but she had to keep going got to get out of the rain
VERSE 4
Come the summer she would sleep out in the park
Always coming in just before the dark
Hiding till the keeper made his way back home...
With a paper for a blanket and some gin to keep her warm
VERSE 5
If you asked her;" where are you going?"
She had to see the saint buried in the west
She had to see the cathedral at St. David's
Walking to the sunset and sleeping in the rough
rep chorus
CHORUS 2
[C] No [G] room for [D] strangers
[C] No [G] food for the [D] keepers of the road
[C] No [G] place for Maggie [D] Coulter
[C] Just the [G] things that she [D] keeps inside her [G] coat
VERSE 6
[G] She gave her [D] name as Maggie [Em] Coulter [C]
[G] She found that [D] name in some [Em] bodies library book
[G] She spent her [D] life on the [Em] road to [C] Mandalay
[Am] She died one [G] winter in a [D] box on Tiger [G] Bay
Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.
