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The Good Son

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:50:48 +0100 (BST)
From: "Andy Field" 

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)

>
>                           FOI NA CRUZ
>
>
> Intro:
>
> C,G / C,G
>
>
> C
>
> Foi na cruz, foi na cruz
>
>        Am
> que um dia
>
>        F          G         C
> meus pecados castigados em Jesus
>
>         Am
> Foi na cruz
>
>        G
> que um dia
>
>         C
> Foi na cruz
>
> G            C                                F
> Love comes a knocking, comes a knocking at my door
>
>     Gm           Eb       D                      Gm      Eb / Gm / Gmaj7
> but you, you and me, love we don't live there anymore.
>
>
> Repeat this pattern for all other verses/choruses.
> **********************************************************************************************
>
>                             THE GOOD SON
>
>
> Em
> 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
>
>
>     Am
> The Good Son
>
>     Em
> The Good son
>
>     Am
> The Good son
>
>
> Em
> the good son has sat and often wept.....
>
>
>
> .......
>
>
> G
> One more man gone
> one more man gone
>
>          Am    [ C / D ]
> one more man
>
> G
> One more man gone ...
>
> etc
>
> ************************************************************************************************
>
>                              SORROW'S CHILD
>
>
> (G) (Bb) Cm                Bb
> Sorrow's child sits by the river
>
>          Cm                  Bb
> Sorrow's child hears not the water
>
>          Cm                Bb
> Sorrow's child sits by the river
>
>          Cm                    Bb
> Sorrow's child hears not the water
>
>     C#           G#                         Eb                 C#
> and just when it seems as though you've got strength enough to stand
>
> Cm             Bb                          Cm      Bb      G#
> sorrow's child all weak and strange stands waiting at your hand.
>
>
> repeat
>
>
>
> Piano Solo bit at end:
>
> Cm / Bb / Cm / Eb / G / Cm, Bb / G#
>
>  - 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).
>
> *************************************************************************************************
>
>                                  THE WEEPING SONG
>
> Easy one this .....
>
> intro Gm
>
> (C, D - notes played on 5th string)
>
>
> Gm              F      Gm
> Go son, go down to the water
>
> Gm                  F       Gm
> and see the women weeping there
>
> Gm            F     Gm
> then go up into the mountains
>
> Gm               F       Gm
> the men they are weeping too.
>
> Gm                     F     Gm
> Father why are all the women weeping?
>
> Gm                    F        Gm
> They are all weeping for their men
>
> Gm                    F         Gm
> Then whay are all the men there weeping?
>
> Gm               F       Gm
> They are weeping back at them
>
>  F        Gm              F                Gm
> This is a weeping song, a song in which to weep
>
> Gm              F             Gm
> while all the men and women sleep
>
> F         Gm                 F                 Gm   [C D - notes on 5th string]
> this is a weeping song but i won't be weeping long.
>
>
> Repeat to end
>
> *************************************************************************************************
>
>                               THE SHIP SONG
>
>
> G              D
> Come sail your ships around me
>
> C             G       D
> and burn your bridges down
>
> G                D
> we make a little history baby
>
> C             G    D
> everytime you come around
>
> G                D
> come loose your dogs upon me
>
> C            G         D
> and let your hair hang down
>
> G                D
> you are a little mystery to me
>
> C             G    D
> Everytime you come around.
>
> ?
>
> C                G         D
> We talk about it all night long
>
> C             G      D
> we define our moral ground
>
> Em                 G
> but when I crawl into your arms
>
> C                G         D
> everything comes tumbling down.
>
> G               D
> Come sail your ships around me
>
>  C            G       D
> and burn your bridges down
>
> G                D
> we make a little history baby
>
> C             G     D
> everytime you come around
>
>
> Return to '?' and repeat through remaining lyrics.
>
> ************************************************************************************************
>
>                            THE HAMMER SONG
>
>
> Riff 1 TAB:
>
>
> E---------------------------|
> B---------------------------|
> G---------------------------|
> D---------------------------|
> A-----1--3^5-5-3-3-1-1-0----|
> E--3----------------------3-|
>
> ^ means slide. This riff is played with lots of delay added.
>
> This is the riff played by the guitar throughout the verse - check record for exact rhythm.
>
> The bits in {} are bass bits for bass guitar!)
>
>
> Gm                   {G    F#    F    D    G (lo)}
> I set out on Monday the night was cold and vast
>
>                     (Guit Riff 1)
> and my brother slept
>
> Gm
> and though i left quite quietly
>
>           { G F# F D F(lo)}                 (guit Riff 1)
> my father raged and raged and my mother wept
>
> Gm
> now, my life was like a river all sucked into the ground
>
>              G#                         Gm
> and then the hammer came down, Lord the hammer came down
>
>
>
>
> Repeat  until:
>
>
> Gm
> Then I came upon a river and I laid my saddle down
>
>              G#                          Gm
> and then the hammer came down, lord, the hammer came down
>
>               F                         Eb
> it knocked me to the ground and I said "please please,
>
>                  G#                      Gm
> take me back to my home town", Lord, the hammer came down
>
>
> ************************************************************************************************
>
>                              LAMENT
>
>
>                Fm
> I've seen your fairground hair, your seaside eyes
>
>       Gm                                       Fm
> your vampire tooth and your little truth, your tiny lies
>
>              Fm
> I know your trembling hand, your guilty prize
>
>       Gm                                     Fm
> your sleeping limbs, your foreign hymns your midnight cries.
>
>             G#       C#        Eb     G#
> So dry your eyes and turn your head away
>
>             C#      Eb      G#              Eb     Bb
> now there's nothing more to say, now you've gone away.
>
>
>
> Repeat over remaining lyrics
>
> ************************************************************************************************
>
>                           THE WITNESS SONG
>
>
> Ok, The bass in this is sort of playing { D D(octave higher) C A G } behing the vocals.
> listen to the record and hopefully all will become clear!
>
> C / Am / G /
>
> D
> Yeah, yeah, well well
> I took a walk down to the port
>
> D
> where strangers met and do consort
>
> D
> All blinkered with desire
>
> D
> and a winter fog moved thickly on
>
> C
> a winter fog moved thickly on
>
>   Am               G        D
> a winter fog moved thickly on.
>
> D
> Now who will be the witness, who will be the witness, who will be the witness
>
>
> when the fogs too thick to see.
>
>
> Repeat a lot.
>
>
> Middle Bit:
>
> D
> and time gets somewhat muddled here
> but no matter, no matter
> here comes the events all tumbling down
> .................
> and she said"well are you healed?"
> and I said "yes, i'm healed"
> and she said "well, yes I'm healed then too"
>
>             Dm
> and I said "babe you are a liar"
> "babe you are a liar"
> "babe you are a liar"
>
> C
> "babe you are a liar"
>
> Am              G
> "babe you are a liar too"
>
> D (with bass bit)
>
> repeat D until end.
>
> **********************************************************************************************
>
>                                LUCY
>
>
> G                Em
> Last night I lay trembling
>
> G               Em
> the moon it was low
>
> G                 Em
> it was the end of love
>
>    Am         D
> of misery and woe
>
> G               Em
> then suddenly above me
>
> G                  Em
> her face burned in light
>
> G                Em
> came a vision of beauty
>
>     Am         Em
> all covered in white
>
>         G             D
> now the bell tower is ringing
>
>          G              D
> and the night has stole past
>
>   Em            C
> O Lucy, can you hear me?
>
> Am           D
> wherever you rest.
>
>
> Rpt over remaining words.
>
> ************************************************************************************************
>

Worked out and Compiled by Andy Field (May 1995)

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