From: Ron Tilden <rontild@bellsouth.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 20:44:45 -0400

Dark Lady
Words and Music by John Durrill
Performed by Cher (1974)

Verse 1:
    Gm               Gm(Bb bass)
The fortune queen of New Orleans
    G(B bass)                  Cm      D    Dsus  D
Was brushing her cat in her black limousine,
Gm                    Gm(Bb bass)
On the back seat were scratches from
    G(B bass)        Cm              Bb(F bass) D Dsus D
The marks of men her fortune she had won.
    Gm                       Gm(Bb bass)
You couldn't see through the tinted glass
G(B bass)                  Cm         D   Dsus D
She said, "Home James" and he hit the gas.
  Gm                   Gm(Bb bass)
I followed her to some darkened room
    G(B bass)                 Cm                     Bb D(F# bass) Dsus D7
She took my money, she said, "I'll be with you soon".


Chorus:
Gm
  Dark lady laughed and danced
            D                  D7 D+ D7 D
And lit the candles one by one;

Danced to her gypsy music
         Cm(G bass) Gm
'Til her brew was done.

Dark lady played black magic
         D                           D7 D+ D7 D
'Til the clock struck on the twelfth.

She told me more about me
       Cm(G bass)Gm   Dsus  D
Than I knew my   self.

Verse 2:
She dealt two cards, - a Queen and a Three,
And mumbled some words that were so strange to me,
And then she turned up a two-eyed Jack,
My eyes saw red but the card still stayed black.
She said the man you love is secretly true
To someone else who is very close to you,
My advice is that you leave this place,
Never come back and forget you ever saw my face.

Chorus

Verse 3:
So I ran home and crawled in my bed,
I couldn't sleep because of all the things she said
Then I remembered her strange perfume
And how I smelled it once in my own room,
So I sneaked back and caught her with my man
Laughing and kissing till they saw the gun in my hand,
The next thing I knew they were dead on the floor;
Dark lady would never turn a card up anymore.

Chorus and Fade