E
the woman combed her yellow hair
B
fixed her dress and stepped into the street
E
behind her in the hotel room
B7
maria turns the bed to change the sheets
A
suddenly a flash of light
C#m E – B7
leaps out from inbetween the linen folds
E B7
maria slides her hand along the sheet still warm and finds the
E
fool’s gold
she steps up to the window
just in time to watch the woman drive away
her cell phone rings her boyfriend calls
to say the factory had no work today
she slips the ring upon her finger
– thinks: “my hands are starting to look old”
but still there’s something beautiful about the hand that wears the fool’s gold
E B7 A E B7 E
fool’s gold fool’s gold the hand that wears the fool’s gold
a woman sits with yellow hair
her husband asks her “where’s your wedding ring?”
“i must have lost it washing up
you know you can’t trust me with anything”
across town on a liar’s ring
maria swears to honour and to hold
bound to him by poverty and promises and fool’s gold
