# Rice Queen

## Classification

- Queue shelf: light
- Current website category: original
- Research category: original
- Rights status: scrips-original-needs-owner-confirmation
- Confidence: working

## Writer / Source

The Scrips

## Earliest Located Evidence

Scrips working repertoire/archive source

## Context

Classified as original in the current website queue. Publishable if Brad/The Scrips control the song or approve the website publication.

## Rights Assessment

Scrips original. Detailed publishing credits are being confirmed. These working notes do not establish clearance of the exact lyric, tune variant, or arrangement. Historical references below are research leads unless a specific comparison is documented.

## Source Links

- local: The Scrips website song-source archive
- local: The Scrips ChordPro export where present

## Local Scrips Evidence

- Current source text: src/_content/song-text/rice-queen.txt
- Cleaned Scrips ChordPro source: Rice Queen.chopro
- Existing site status: listed in master repertoire, original
- Existing site notes: lyric/chord sheet present; listed under Original Songs in categorized master setlist; listed in master list; appears in setlist

## Scrips Arrangement Notes

The text/chords supplied here follow the Scrips working source where available. Differences from older printed or collected versions should be treated as arrangement choices unless separately documented.

## Chords / Key / Tuning

- Key: F
- Capo: 5
- Tuning/comment: Guitar - Standard

## Alternate Titles / Indexes

- Alternate titles: none documented in this pass
- Roud number: none located / not applicable

## Open Questions

- Correct official-band video is now linked. Confirm whether F/capo 5 denotes shapes or sounding key; approve the sheet and individual writer/splits.
- Confirm individual songwriter credits, publishing splits, and approval of the website song sheet.

## Website review — 2026-08-30

Lyrics and chord cues supplied; band approval needed. The text and chord export were inspected for usable content; file existence is not a completed-song-sheet check. Final performance accuracy remains for the band to approve.