Righteous Woman chords by Paul Kelly

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Verse 1
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 (D major)  (E minor) There she stands in the spotlight  (C major) 
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 (D major) Now  (E minor) the music begins  (C major)  (G major) 
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 (D major) Her left leg won't stop trembling  (C major)  (D major) 
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But  (E minor) there's nowhere to run  (C major) 
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 (D major) The  (E minor) soldiers summon at the station  (C major) 
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 (D major) Are  (E minor) staking down to the hall  (C major)  (D major) 
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Limps in late in the darkness  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (E minor) Takes his seat in the stars  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (E minor) Righteous woman starts off
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a little like a dove at dawn  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (E minor) Righteous woman building up pressure
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like a slow -moving  (C major) storm
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 (D major) Righteous woman giving birth
to the dark unborn
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 (E minor) Righteous woman, righteous woman
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Ooh,  (C major)  (D major) oo (E minor) h,  (C major)  (E minor) ooh, ooh, ooh
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Oo (C major) h, oo (G major) h,  (D major) ooh, ooh, ooh
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Oo (C major) h,  (D major) ooh,  (E minor) ooh, ooh, Oo (C major) h,  (D major) 
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 (E minor) In  a blanket and a box
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on a hospital doorstep  (D major) 
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 (E minor) Lies a baby in your bones  (C major) 
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The  (D major) nurse gently picks
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up the bundle  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (E minor) But the mother is gone  (C major)  (D major) 
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In  (E minor) the darkness his head falls  (C major) 
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 (D major) As  (E minor) the chorus arrives  (C major) 
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 (D major) He wakes up late in the third act
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 (E minor) To  those radiant eyes
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 (C major)  (D major)  (E minor) Righteous woman laying on a
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log and on a globe  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (E minor) Righteous woman surrendering
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to the full ecstatic flow  (C major) 
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An (D major) d  as she looks out and
sees the brass buttons
glinted in the dead's robe
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Righteous  (E minor) woman,
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righteous woman  (C major)  (D major)  (E minor) 
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 (C major) Oo (D major) h, ooh,  (E minor) 
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oo (C major) h   (D major)  (E minor)  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (E minor) Righteous woman hears the knock
on her dressing room door
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 (C major) She  (D major)  (E minor) takes the note and reads it
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and lets it drop to the  (C major) floor
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 (B minor) Now  (D major) she drifts on down slowly
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to the backstage door  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (E minor) Righteous woman,
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righteous woman  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (E minor) Righteous woman,
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righteous woman  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (E minor) Righteous woman,
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righteous woman  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (E minor) Righteous woman,
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righteous woman  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (E minor) Righteous woman, righteous woman