Righteous Woman chords

[C] [D] [Em]
[Em]There she stands in the spotlight[C] [D]
[Em]Now the music begins [C] [Gm]
[D]Her left leg won’t stop trembling[C] [D]
[Em]But there’s nowhere to run[C] [D]

[Em]The soldier sobbing at the station[C] [D]
[Em]Is taken down to the hal[C]l [Gm]
[D]He limps in late in the darknes[C]s [D]
[Em]Takes his seat in the stalls[C] [D]

[CHORUS]
[Em]Righteous woman starts softly like a dove at dawn[C] [D]
[Em]Righteous woman building up pressure like a slow moving storm[C] [Gm]
[D]Righteous woman giving birth to the dark unborn [C] [D]
[Em]Righteous woman
[Em]Righteous woman

[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[C]Oo [Gm]Oo [D]Ooooh
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh

[Em]In a blanket in a box on the hospital doorstep[C] [D]
[Em]Lies a baby new born[C] [Gm]
[D]The nurse gently picks up the bundle[C] [D]
[Em]But the mother is gon[C]e [Gm]

[Em]In the darkness his head fall[C]s [D]
[Em]As the chorus arrives[C] [Gm]
[D]He wakes up late in the third act[C] [D]
[Em]To those radiant eye[C]s [D]

[CHORUS]
[Em]Righteous woman laying down the law getting on a glow[C] [D]
[Em]Righteous woman surrendering to the full ecstatic flow[C] [Gm]
[D]Now she looks out and sees the brass buttons glinting in the tenth ro[C]w [D]
[Em]Righteous woman
[Em]Righteous woman

[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[C]Oo [Gm]Oo [D]Ooooh
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh

[N.C]Righteous woman hears the knock on her dressing room door[C] [D]
[N.C]She takes the note and reads it and then lets it drop to the flo[C]or[Gm]
[D]Now she drifts on down slowly to the backstage door[C] [D]
[Em]Righteous woman
[Em]Righteous woman

[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh
[C]Oo [Gm]Oo [D]Ooooh
[C]Oo [D]Oo [Em]Ooooh