Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Higgs Boson Blues (Guitar)

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Bm (with hammer on, F# and B) 77777x to 79977x [Verse] Bm
A                                G
  Can't remember anything at all

      Bm
Flame trees line the streets

A                                G
  Can't remember anything at all

                Bm
I'm driving my car down to Geneva

E7
   I've been sitting in my basement patio

Bm
   It was hot

E7                                         Bm
   Up above the girls walk past, their roses all in bloom

                   A                           G
Hey, have you ever heard about the Higgs Boson Blues?

                               Bm
I'm going down to Geneva, baby
Gonna teach it to you
Asus4            G                    Bm
      Who cares?   Who cares what the future brings?

E7
   Black road long, I drove and drove

  Bm
I came upon a crossroad
And the night was hot and black
E7
   I see Robert Johnson with a 10-dollar guitar

Bm
  Strapped to his back, looking for a tomb

Asus4                   G
      Here come Lucifer   with his canon law

      Bm
And a hundred black babies running from his genocidal jaw

Asus4                          G
      He's got the real killer groove
Robert Johnson and the devil, man
Bm
   Don't know who's gonna rip off who

E7
   I'm driving my car, flame trees on fire

Bm
   Everybody's singing the Higgs Boson Blues

E7                                         Bm
   I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm looking for a spot to drop
All the clocks have stopped
           Asus4                    G
In Memphis       in the Lorraine Motel

                   Bm
It's hot, it's hot - that's why they call it the Hot Spot

                     A
I take a room with a view

            G                                   Bm
I see a man   preaching in a language that's completely new

E7
   Making the hot cocks in the flophouse bleed

          Bm
While the cleaning ladies sob into their mops
The bellhop hops and bops
E7
   A shot rings out, it's a spiritual groove

          Bm
Everybody bleeding from the Higgs Boson Blues

A         G
  If I die tonight, bury me

      Bm
In my favorite yellow patent leather shoes

A                      G
  With a mummified cat  and a cone-like hat

         Bm
That the caliphate forced on the Jews

E7
   Can you feel my heartbeat?

               Bm
Can you feel my heartbeat?

E                                     Bm
  Hannah Montana, she does the African Savannah
While the simulated rainy season begins
E7
   She curses the queue at the Zulu

          Bm
And moves on to Amazonia
And cries with the dolphins
A
  The mama eat the pygmy

G
  The pygmy eat the monkey

    Bm
The monkey has a gift that he is sending back to you

A                          G
  Here come the missionary

                      Bm
With his smallpox and flu

A                       G
  He's saving them, the savages

                       Bm
With his Higgs Boson Blues

E7                                   Bm
   I'm driving my car down to Geneva

A                 G                Bm
  I'm driving my car down to Geneva
[Outro] E7 Bm
E7
   Oh, let the damn day break

Bm
   Rainy days always make me sad

Asus4                    G
      Miley Cyrus floats   in a swimming pool in Toluca Lake

Bm
   The best girl I ever had

Asus4                 G                 Bm
      I'm driving my car down to Geneva

Asus4                            G
      Can you feel my heartbeat?   Can you feel my heartbeat?

Bm
 I'm driving my car down to Geneva

Asus4                                G
      Can't remember anything at all

                   Bm
Sitting here in my    basement patio

   Asus4                                G
Ahh,     can't remember anything at all

                   Bm
I'm driving my car    down to Geneva