Richard Thompson – Cooksferry Queen (Guitar)

Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E) • Capo 3
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Chords

Use a muted drone on the D string. [Verse 1]
     D
Well there's a house in an alley

       D
In the squats and low-rise

     A
Of a town with no future

           Bm              G
But that's where my future lies

       D
It's a secret, but no secret 

       D
It's a rule, but no rule

          A
Where you find the darkest avenue

             Bm                 G
There you'll find the brightest jewel
[Verse 2]
       D
Now my name it is Mulvaney

        D
And I'm known quite famously

       A
People speak my name in whispers

     Bm                      G
What higher praise can there be?

        D
But I'd trade my fine mohair

         D
For tied-dyes and faded jeans

       A
If she wanted me some other way

         Bm         G
She's my Cooksferry Queen
[Verse 3]
            D
She gave me one pill to get bigger

            D
She gave me one pill to get small

      D
I saw snakes dancing all around her feet

    D
And Dead men coming throught the wall

             Bm             D
Well I'm the prince of this parish

          Bm                     D
I've been ruthless and I've been mean

        Bm                  D
But she blew my mind as she opened my eyes

         Bm         G
She's my Cooksferry Queen
[Solo]
D   D D D
Yeah
D D D D x7 [Verse 4]
           D                         D D D
Well she's got every rare perfection

        D                            D D D
All her looks beyond compare

          A
She's got dresses that seem to float in the wind

    D                           D D D
Pre-Raphaelite curls in her hair

    D                             D D D
She could get the lame to walking

    D                          D D D
She could get the blind to see

          D                                D D D
She could make wine out of Thames river water

          Bm                     G
She could make a believer out of me
[Outro]
        D                     D D D
Yes I'd trade it all tomorrow

        D                      D D D
All the wicked things I've been

         D                        D D D
She's my bright jewel of the alley

         Bm         G
She's my Cooksferry Queen

        D                     D D D
Yes I'd trade it all tomorrow

        D                       D D D
All the wicked things I've been

         A
She's my bright jewel of the alley

         Bm         G
She's my Cooksferry Queen
[Ending] D D D D x4