Biography:
Elf, was a Blues-rock band founded in 1967 in Cortland, New York, United States by singer and bassist Ronnie James Dio (Ronnie Padavona), keyboardist Doug Thaler, drummer Gary Driscoll, and guitarists Nick Pantas and David 'Rock' Feinstein (Dio's cousin). The band was orignially called The Electric Elves, but was shortened to The Elves, and finally Elf in 1969.
In 1970 the band was involved in an automobile accident which claimed the life of Nick Pantas, whom the band decided not to replace.
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Back in the wood where it's good and the days are yeah long
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Well I saw me a child, she was wild like a lady going all wrong
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Dark as the night, she was right for a little conversation
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So I pulled her right in and she said she had some imagination
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Black swampy water
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That's where I caught her
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Black swampy water
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Black swampy water
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We didn't speak, felt weak, got tangled up in her hair
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So we lay in the grass, what a gas, you can't know that you were there
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So then I let it all go, what a show was like blowing up a freight train
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Then around the world I would go like jumping on a jet plane
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Black swampy water
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That's where I caught her
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Black swampy water
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Ooh, what I taught her, yeah
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[Verse 3]
C F Fsus4 F
Back in the wood where it's good and the days are yeah long
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Well I saw me a child, she was wild like a lady going all wrong
[Chorus]
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I'm in black swampy water
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Oh no, that's where I caught her
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Black swampy water
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Ooh, all things that I taught her
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Yes I'm in black swampy water
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My, my, where I saw her
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Black swampy water
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What I did when I caught her, yeah
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[Verse 1]
C F Fsus4 F
Back in the wood where it's good and the days are yeah long
C F Fsus4 F
Well I saw me a child, she was wild like a lady going all wrong
C F Fsus4 F
Dark as the night, she was right for a little conversation
C F Fsus4 F
So I pulled her right in and she said she had some imagination
[Chorus]
G G6 G
Black swampy water
F Fsus4 F
That's where I caught her
G G6 G
Black swampy water
F Fsus4 F
Black swampy water
[Verse 2]
C F Fsus4 F
We didn't speak, felt weak, got tangled up in her hair
C F Fsus4 F
So we lay in the grass, what a gas, you can't know that you were there
C F Fsus4 F
So then I let it all go, what a show was like blowing up a freight train
C F Fsus4 F
Then around the world I would go like jumping on a jet plane
[Chorus]
G G6 G
Black swampy water
F Fsus4 F
That's where I caught her
G G6 G
Black swampy water
F Fsus4 F
Ooh, what I taught her, yeah
[Instrumental]
Csus4 C Csus4 C Csus4 C Csus4 C
Dsus4 D Dsus4 D Dsus4 D Dsus4 D
A A C F G
[Verse 3]
C F Fsus4 F
Back in the wood where it's good and the days are yeah long
C F Fsus4 F
Well I saw me a child, she was wild like a lady going all wrong
[Chorus]
G G6 G
I'm in black swampy water
F Fsus4 F
Oh no, that's where I caught her
G G6 G
Black swampy water
F Fsus4 F
Ooh, all things that I taught her
[Chorus]
G G6 G
Yes I'm in black swampy water
F Fsus4 F
My, my, where I saw her
G G6 G
Black swampy water
F Fsus4 F G F G F
What I did when I caught her, yeah
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