Biography:
Richard Shindell (born 3 August 1960, Lakehurst, New Jersey) is an American folk singer. While dividing his time between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and New York's Hudson Valley, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, and juxtapose ideas and images.
Shindell's songwriting often involves storytelling from a first-person point of view: for example, from an INS officer and illegal immigrant in "Fishing", to a World War II soldier in "Sparrows Point"
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Other songs:
- A Juggler Out In Traffic
- A Summer Wind A Cotton Dress
- A Tune For Nowhere
- Acadian Driftwood
- Are You Happy Now
- Arrowhead
- Beyond The Iron Gate
- Blue Divide
- By Now
- Castaway
- Darkness Darkness
- Deportee
- Easy Street
- Fishing
- Gethsemani Goodbye
- Gray Green
- I Saw My Youth Today
- Ill Be Here In The Morning
- Last Fare Of The Day
- Lawrence Ks
- May
- Money For Floods
- Northbound 35
- On A Sea Of Fleur
- Parasol Ants
- Reunion Hill
- Sing Me Back Home
- Smiling
- So Says The Whippoorwill
- Sparrows Point
- Spring
- State Of The Union
- Storms Are On The Ocean
- Summer Wind A Cotton Dress
- The Ballad Of Mary Magdalen
- The Courier
- The Kenworth Of My Dreams
- The Last Fare Of The Day
- The Next Best Western
- The Things That I Have Seen
- The Weather
- Transit
- Tv Light
- Waiting For The Storm
- Wisteria
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Richard Shindell - The Ballad Of Mary Magdalen
CAPO: 4th Fret
INTRO: C Am G F (2x) C
Am F
My name is Mary Magdalen
G C F G C
I come from Palestine
Am F
Please excuse these rags I'm in
G C F
But I've fallen on hard times
G F C F
Long ago I had my work
Am G F G C
When I was in my prime
Am F
But I gave it up, and all for love
G C
It was his career or mine
CHORUS:
Am G F C F
Jesus loved me, this I know
G
Why on earth did I ever let him go
Am G F C
He was always faithful, he was always kind
F Am G C
But he walked off with this heart of mine
INTERLUDE: C Am G F (2x) C
Am F
I remember nights we spent
G C F G C
Whispering our creed
Am F
Our rituals, our sacraments
G C F
The stars our canopy
G F C F
There beneath an olive tree
Am G F G C
We'd offer up our plea
Am F
God's creation, innocent
G C
His arms surrounding me
CHORUS:
Am G F C F
Jesus loved me, this I know
G
Why on earth did I ever let him go
Am G F C
He was always faithful, he was always kind
F Am G C
But he walked off with this heart of mine
INTERLUDE: C Am G F (2x) C
Am F
A love like this will come but once
G C F G C
This I do believe
Am F
And I'll not see his like again
G C F
As I live and breath
G F C F
I'm sorry if I might offend
Am G F G C
I will never see
Am F
How the tenderness I shared with him
G C
Became a heresy
CHORUS:
Am G F C F
Jesus loved me, this I know
G
Why on earth did he ever have to go
Am G F C
He was always faithful, he was always kind
F Am G C
But he walked off with this heart of mine
Am G F C
He was always faithful, he was always kind
F Am G C
But he walked off with this heart of mine
OUTRO: C Am G F (## about 5x - fade to end ##)
CAPO: 4th Fret
INTRO: C Am G F (2x) C
Am F
My name is Mary Magdalen
G C F G C
I come from Palestine
Am F
Please excuse these rags I'm in
G C F
But I've fallen on hard times
G F C F
Long ago I had my work
Am G F G C
When I was in my prime
Am F
But I gave it up, and all for love
G C
It was his career or mine
CHORUS:
Am G F C F
Jesus loved me, this I know
G
Why on earth did I ever let him go
Am G F C
He was always faithful, he was always kind
F Am G C
But he walked off with this heart of mine
INTERLUDE: C Am G F (2x) C
Am F
I remember nights we spent
G C F G C
Whispering our creed
Am F
Our rituals, our sacraments
G C F
The stars our canopy
G F C F
There beneath an olive tree
Am G F G C
We'd offer up our plea
Am F
God's creation, innocent
G C
His arms surrounding me
CHORUS:
Am G F C F
Jesus loved me, this I know
G
Why on earth did I ever let him go
Am G F C
He was always faithful, he was always kind
F Am G C
But he walked off with this heart of mine
INTERLUDE: C Am G F (2x) C
Am F
A love like this will come but once
G C F G C
This I do believe
Am F
And I'll not see his like again
G C F
As I live and breath
G F C F
I'm sorry if I might offend
Am G F G C
I will never see
Am F
How the tenderness I shared with him
G C
Became a heresy
CHORUS:
Am G F C F
Jesus loved me, this I know
G
Why on earth did he ever have to go
Am G F C
He was always faithful, he was always kind
F Am G C
But he walked off with this heart of mine
Am G F C
He was always faithful, he was always kind
F Am G C
But he walked off with this heart of mine
OUTRO: C Am G F (## about 5x - fade to end ##)
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