Richard Thompson – Fork In The Road (Guitar)

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E A B x8 [Verse]
   A         D/A  A     D/A     A     E
An Esperanto lullaby is keeping me in stitches

A                     D/A    A       D/A      A    E
Don't know what she's saying but the sound of it bewitches

                 D                                  C#m    F#sus4
Oh, it's over my head, she thinks she's queen for a day, hurray
[Chorus]
E            A          B
  Which way? Passion or poison?

E                    A       B
  Which way? Get the highway code

E                A    B
  All questions,   no answers

E                    A           B
  Standing here at a fork in the road

                 E
At a fork in the road
[Verse]
    A              D/A       A         D/A        A       E
Now Eglantine, she takes her time, she takes good aim and fires

  A               D/A     A              D/A     A      E
A crystal ball is hard to read when it's tangled in the wires

                 D                                  C#m    F#sus4
Oh, it's over my head, she thinks she's queen for a day, hurray
[Chorus]
E            A          B
  Which way? Passion or poison?

E                    A       B
  Which way? Get the highway code

E                A    B
  All questions,   no answers

E                    A           B
  Standing here at a fork in the road

                 C
At a fork in the road
[Guitar solo (in new key)] C C Bb Bb F F G G [Verse (first two lines the new key, before returning to the original key for the last line and choruses)]
     C           F/C      C    F/C C    G
Miss Carnaby she wants to be Caliope on meth

    C                F/C     C      F/C     C        G
She fits the job description if she doesn't bleed to death

                    D                          C#m    F#sus4
But it's all in her head, nobody made her that way, hurray
[Chorus]
E            A          B
  Which way? Passion or poison?

E                    A       B
  Which way? Get the highway code

E                A    B
  All questions,   no answers

E                    A           B
  Standing here at a fork in the road

                 E
At a fork in the road