"BATHSHEBA SMILES" By Richard Thompson From the album "Mock Tudor" ----------------- QUICK "RT TAB ARCHIVE" WEBMASTER NOTE: These chords are for the solo acoustic version of the song. The album version starts in F#m as opposed to Gm and continues like that throughout the song. ----------------- Transcription by: John O'Dwyer Well, here they are, gang the chords for Bathsheba Smiles. This is transcribed from the Kershaw broadcast. I've assumed that RT is playing without a capo and the tuning is DADGBE. I'm not 100% sure of a couple of the chords, notably the B flat on the word joy, so any corrections will be gratefully received. Chords for the second verse and second and third choruses are the same as the first. Lower-case is used to denote flat. I hope the spacing doesn't get messed up when this post is transmitted. "Bathsheba Smiles" Gm Cm Bathsheba smiles Gm Cm she smiles and veins turn to ice, Gm Cm she smiles and heads bow down. Gm Cm She works the room Gm Cm Air-kisses every victim twice. Gm Bb C She spreads her joy around. F Eb Do you close your eyes to see miracles? F Eb Do you raise your face to kiss angels? F Eb Do you float on air to hear oracles? Cm F Dm Bathsheba smiles, smiles Cm F Dm Bathsheba smiles, smiles Ab F Eb Bb (sus 4) Bb No doubt can cross her mind, can cross her mind. Bathsheba knows, She knows you better than yourself Confess upon your knees. She shares her love, And sharing love is sharing wealth Dig in your pockets, please. Do you close your eyes to see miracles? Do you raise your face to kiss angels? Do you float on air to hear oracles? Bathsheba smiles, smiles Bathsheba smiles, smiles No doubt can cross her mind. C No pain, no gain's a strain, B Bb but she never seems to hurt. C Catwalk pilgrims sing this song: B Bb Hello heaven and goodbye dirt Gm Eb and no hair shirt. Do you close your eyes to see miracles? Do you raise your face to kiss angels? Do you float on air to hear oracles? Bathsheba smiles, smiles Bathsheba smiles, smiles No doubt can, no doubt can cross her mind. F Eb Do you close your eyes? F Eb Do you raise your face? F Eb Bathsheba smiles, smiles F Eb Bathsheba smiles, smiles F Eb Bathsheba smiles. As soon as I heard this song I could hear OH was being pretty harmonically adventurous and the transcription confirms this: a long modulation from G minor to the relative major B flat in the course of the verse and chorus; a ferociously chromatic middle eight (a learned paper could be written on chromaticism in RTs music); a coda that ends on a chord of E flat, the major 6th of the home key (assuming G minor is the home key!) or maybe an unresolved suspension of the 1st inversion of the tonic (Pretentious moi?). Has our boy been listening to Chopin?