Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand (Guitar)

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A staple of the Bad Seeds live shows. Brooding B minor blues, punctuated with two near-apocalyptic instrumental wigouts - especially on the various live versions! NB some live recordings are in Bbm, but mostly in Bm Chords Bm x24432 Em 022000 F#7 242322 E7 020100 Gm7 353333 [Intro] | Bm | Bm | Bm | Bm | [Verse 1]
Bm
Take a little walk to the edge of town and go across the tracks

          Bm
Where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom as it shifts and cracks

      Em
Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires
Hey man, you know you're never coming back
Bm
   Past the square, past the bridge, past the mills, past the stacks

     F#7
On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man

     E7
In a dusty black coat with a red right hand
| Bm | Bm | Bm | Bm [Verse 2]
      Bm
He'll wrap you in his arms, tell you that you've been a good boy

        Bm
He'll rekindle all the dreams it took you a lifetime to destroy

      Em
He'll reach deep into the hole, heal your shrinking soul
But there won't be a single thing that you can do
Bm
   He's a god, he's a man, he's a ghost, he's a guru

        F#7
They're whispering his name through this disappearing land

    E7
But hidden in his coat is a red right hand
| Bm | Bm | Bm | Bm [Verse 3]
    Bm
You don't have no money, he'll get you some

    Bm
You don't have no car, he'll get you one

    Em
You don't have no self-respect, you feel like an insect

                                             Bm
Well, don't you worry buddy 'cause here he comes
Through the ghettos and the barrio and the bowery and the slum
  F#7
A shadow is cast wherever he stands

E7
Stacks of green paper in his red right hand
| Bm | Bm | Bm | Bm | [Instrumental]
  Bm
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A|5-----------4-5-|4---2-4-2---0-2-|0-----------2---|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|------2---------|----------------|

  Bm
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A|5-----------4-5-|4---2-4-2---0-2-|0-----------2---|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|------2---------|----------------|

  Em
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A|9-----------7-9-|7---5-7-5---4-5-|4-----0-----2---|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

  Bm
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A|5-----------4-5-|4---2-4-2---0-2-|0-----------2---|----4---5---7---|
E|----------------|----------------|------2---------|----------------|

  F#7                               E7
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D|7-----------7-5-|4---7-5-4-0-2-4-|5-----------5-4-|2-0-5-4-2-0-2-0-|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

  Bm
e|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|9-----------7-9-|7---5-7-5---4-5-|4-----0-----2---|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
| Bm | Gm7 | Bm | Gm7 | | Bm | Bm | Bm | Bm | [Verse 4]
Bm
  You'll see him in your nightmares, you'll see him in your dreams

  Bm
He'll appear out of nowhere but he ain't what he seems

Em
  You'll see him in your head, on the TV screen
Hey buddy, I'm warning you to turn it off
Bm
  He's a ghost, he's a god, he's a man, he's a guru

           F#7
You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan

  E7
Designed and directed by his red right hand
[Ending] | Bm | Gm7 | Bm | Gm7 | | Bm | Gm7 | Bm | Gm7 | | Bm