Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Love Letter (Guitar)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Loveletter - Nick Cave --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Frank Email: [email protected] Couldn't find a tab for this great song from the "No more shall we part" album, so here it is. Originally a song for piano, but it sounds good on an acoustic guitar as well, especially if played fingerpicking-style to get the bass notes. I've tabbed just the chords - the piano plays a few notes different here and there. Listen to the record, and enjoy! (Chords relative to capo) D: x00232 D/F#: 200232 (use your thumb to play F# on the E-string) G: 320033 A: x02220 Intro: D D G G x4 Verse 1:
D              D/F#        G 
I hold this letter in my hand

                                  D
 A plea, a petition, a kind of  prayer

              D/F#           G
I hope it does as I have planned
Losing her again is more than I can bear
D            D/F#            G
I kiss the cold, white envelope

                              D
I press my lips against her name

             D/F#                 G
Two hundred words, we live in hope
The sky hangs heavy with rain Chorus:
D       D/F#           G   
Love letter, Love letter

D        D/F#       G
Go get her, go get her

D       D/F#            G
Love letter, love letter

D       D/F#        A
Go tell her, go tell her
Verse 2:
D         D/F#                G
A wicked wind whips up the hill

                       D
A handful of hopeful words

             D/F#       G
I love her and I always will
The sky is ready to burst
D                 D/F#            G
Said something I did not mean to say

                                 D 
Say something I did not mean to say

                  D/F#              G
Said something I did not mean to say

                          (D)
It all came out the wrong way
Chorus Verse 3:
D           D/F#             G
Rain your kisses down upon me

                            D
Rain your kisses down in storm

        D/F#                    G
And for all who'll come before me
In your slowly fading forms
D          D/F#        G
I'm going out of my mind

                        D
Will leave me standing in the rain

          D/F#            G
with a letter and a prayer

G
Whispered in the wind
Outro:
A            G
Come back to me

A             G
Come back to me

A            G          A      D
Oh, baby, please come back to me