Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Lay Me Low (Guitar)

Bb          D
They're gonna lay me low (lay me low)

D              Eb             Bb
They're gonna sink me in the snow

               Eb                        Bb
They're gonna throw back their heads and crow,

C      F
When i go

F                       Bb           D
They're gonna jump and shout (lay me low)

               Eb              Bb
They're gonna wave their arms about

         Eb               D
All the stories will come out

       Gm  Eb / F
When I go

                         Bb            D
All the stars will glow bright (lay me low)

         Eb                     Bb
All my friends will give up the fight

                Eb                  Bb
They'll see my work in a different light

C      F
When i go

F                           Bb              D
They'll try telephoning my mother (lay me low)

         Eb               Bb
They'll end up getting my brother

                 Eb              D
Who'll spill the story on some long lost lover

            Gm         Eb / F
that they hardly know

Eb              Bb   Eb            Bb
Hats off to the man, On top of the world

 Dm                Gm             C               F
Come crawl up here baby, and I'll show you how it works

                   Bb                  D
If you wanna be my friend and you wanna repent

                       Eb                     Bb
And you want it all to end and you wanna know when

           Eb                             D
Then do it now, don't care how take your final bow

        Gm                      Eb             F
Make a stand, take my hand, and blow it all to hell.

            Bb                              D
They gonna inform the police chief (Lay me low)

                 Eb         Bb
Who'll breathe a sigh of relief

                    Eb                           Bb
He'll say I was a malanderer, a badlander, and a thief

C      F
When I go

F                      Bb               D
They will interview my teachers (Lay me low)

                 Eb                     Bb
Who'll say I was one of God's sorrier creatures

Eb                                  D
There'll print informative six-page features

       Gm  Eb  F
When I go

F                      Bb           D
They'll bang a big old gong (Lay me low)

          Eb                     Bb
The motorcade will be ten miles long

     Eb                            Bb
The world will join together for a farewell song

          C           F
When they put me down below

F                      Bb           D
They'll sound a fluegelhorn (Lay me low)

                 Eb                     Bb
And the sea will rage, and the sky will storm

    Eb                 D
All man and beast will mourn

Gm         Eb F
When I go

Eb              Bb
Hats off to the man

Eb             Bb
On top of the world

Dm                  Gm
Come crawl up here, baby

           C                     F
And we can watch this damn thing turn

                   Bb
If you wanna be my friend

                 D
And you wanna repent

                       Eb
And you want it all to end

                   Bb
And you wanna know when

           Eb
Well do it now Do it now

                 D
Take a long last bow

        Gm
Take my hand Make a stand

    Eb                F
And blow it all to hell