Attempt at chords by Magnus Paterson [email protected] 

Standard tuning,  
capo 3rd fret. 




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 

Am 
You looked shy in your grandmother's wedding dress 
Gadd9 
Feet set wide like a farm girl stands 
Bm 
Too young to love and too young to lose 
F 
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 

Am 
When we stood down at last it was easy to find you 
Gadd9 
Mine was the shoulder you cried on that day 
Bm 
Just an old comrade doing his duty 
F 
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 

(bridge is F G F G F Dm) 

Am 
Now we lie in the darkness together 
Gadd9 
Often we lie without speaking this way 
Bm 
As you stare in the dark do you see your young corporal 
F 
Who never came back from the Woods of Darney 

Am 
Is it him that you see when we make love together 
Gadd9 
Is it him that you see when war fills the sky 
Bm 
Was he there as you stood in your grandmother's wedding dress 
F 
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 

Am 
And I'll carry your picture the one that he carried 
Gadd9 
I'll wear your innocence and take my chance 
Bm 
On a frozen field, in a far-flung war 
F 
To win back what we lost in a field in France 

Am 
And it's many a soldier who goes into battle 
Gadd9 
Your corporal and I, we just hear and obey 
Bm 
Perhaps we'll lie in the darkness together 
F 
With your love to bind us, in the Woods of Darney. 

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ADDITIONAL TRANSCRIPTION NOTES  
FROM MARSHALL FLEISHER  

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ADDITIONAL TRANSCRIPTION NOTES  
FROM Noam Newman  
  
Woods of Darney 
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Cm Gm7 Dm Ab Cm X2 
Fm Cm Gm Db Cm 
  
Eb Bb Fm Cm 
  
Ab Bb Ab X2 (violin link) 
Ab Fm 
  
Writing it down like that looks pretty incomprehensible, but the songs  
are rhythymically simple: one chord every four bars in Darney,