These are the Chords to the album 'The Good Son' by Nick Cave and the Bad
Seeds (mute 1990). Origionally posted to the Nick Cave Newsgroup.
Andy Field
(andyf@cogs.susx.ac.uk)
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> FOI NA CRUZ
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> Intro:
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> , / ,
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> Foi na cruz, foi na cruz
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> que um dia
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> meus pecados castigados em Jesus
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> Foi na cruz
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> que um dia
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> Foi na cruz
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> Love comes a knocking, comes a knocking at my door
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> / /
> but you, you and me, love we don't live there anymore.
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> Repeat this pattern for all other verses/choruses.
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> THE GOOD SON
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> The good son walks in to the field
> he is a tiller, he has a tiller's hands
> but down in his heart now, he lays down queer plans
> against his brother and against his family.
> Yet he worships his brother, and he worships his mother
> but it's his father he says is an unfair man
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> The Good Son
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> The Good son
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> The Good son
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> the good son has sat and often wept.....
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> .......
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> One more man gone
> one more man gone
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> [ / ]
> one more man
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> One more man gone ...
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> etc
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> SORROW'S CHILD
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> () ()
> Sorrow's child sits by the river
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> Sorrow's child hears not the water
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> Sorrow's child sits by the river
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> Sorrow's child hears not the water
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> and just when it seems as though you've got strength enough to stand
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> sorrow's child all weak and strange stands waiting at your hand.
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> repeat
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> Piano Solo bit at end:
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> / / / / / , /
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> - You'll have to play along to the record to work out where the changes come (it's fairly obvious from
the piano melody over the top).
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> THE WEEPING SONG
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> Easy one this .....
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> intro
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> (, - notes played on 5th string)
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> Go son, go down to the water
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> and see the women weeping there
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> then go up into the mountains
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> the men they are weeping too.
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> Father why are all the women weeping?
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> They are all weeping for their men
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> Then whay are all the men there weeping?
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> They are weeping back at them
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> This is a weeping song, a song in which to weep
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> while all the men and women sleep
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> [ - notes on 5th string]
> this is a weeping song but i won't be weeping long.
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> Repeat to end
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> THE SHIP SONG
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> Come sail your ships around me
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> and burn your bridges down
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> we make a little history baby
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> everytime you come around
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> come loose your dogs upon me
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> and let your hair hang down
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> you are a little mystery to me
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> Everytime you come around.
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> ?
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> We talk about it all night long
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> we define our moral ground
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> but when I crawl into your arms
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> everything comes tumbling down.
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> Come sail your ships around me
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> and burn your bridges down
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> we make a little history baby
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> everytime you come around
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> Return to '?' and repeat through remaining lyrics.
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> THE HAMMER SONG
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> Riff 1 TAB:
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> ^ means slide. This riff is played with lots of delay added.
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> This is the riff played by the guitar throughout the verse - check record for exact rhythm.
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> The bits in {} are bass bits for bass guitar!)
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> { (lo)}
> I set out on Monday the night was cold and vast
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> (Guit Riff 1)
> and my brother slept
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> and though i left quite quietly
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> { (lo)} (guit Riff 1)
> my father raged and raged and my mother wept
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> now, my life was like a river all sucked into the ground
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> and then the hammer came down, Lord the hammer came down
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> Repeat until:
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> Then I came upon a river and I laid my saddle down
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> and then the hammer came down, lord, the hammer came down
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> it knocked me to the ground and I said "please please,
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> take me back to my home town", Lord, the hammer came down
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> LAMENT
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> I've seen your fairground hair, your seaside eyes
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> your vampire tooth and your little truth, your tiny lies
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> I know your trembling hand, your guilty prize
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> your sleeping limbs, your foreign hymns your midnight cries.
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> So dry your eyes and turn your head away
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> now there's nothing more to say, now you've gone away.
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> Repeat over remaining lyrics
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> THE WITNESS SONG
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> Ok, The bass in this is sort of playing { (octave higher) } behing the vocals.
> listen to the record and hopefully all will become clear!
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> / / /
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> Yeah, yeah, well well
> I took a walk down to the port
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> where strangers met and do consort
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> All blinkered with desire
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> and a winter fog moved thickly on
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> a winter fog moved thickly on
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> a winter fog moved thickly on.
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> Now who will be the witness, who will be the witness, who will be the witness
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> when the fogs too thick to see.
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> Repeat a lot.
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> Middle Bit:
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> and time gets somewhat muddled here
> but no matter, no matter
> here comes the events all tumbling down
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> and she said"well are you healed?"
> and I said "yes, i'm healed"
> and she said "well, yes I'm healed then too"
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> and I said "babe you are a liar"
> "babe you are a liar"
> "babe you are a liar"
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> "babe you are a liar"
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> "babe you are a liar too"
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> (with bass bit)
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> repeat until end.
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> LUCY
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> Last night I lay trembling
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> the moon it was low
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> it was the end of love
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> of misery and woe
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> then suddenly above me
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> her face burned in light
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> came a vision of beauty
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> all covered in white
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> now the bell tower is ringing
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> and the night has stole past
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> O Lucy, can you hear me?
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> wherever you rest.
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> Rpt over remaining words.
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Worked out and Compiled by Andy Field (May 1995)
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