Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Good Son (Guitar)
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:50:48 +0100 (BST)
From: "Andy Field" <[email protected]>
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
([email protected])
>
> 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)
Comments/corrections to [email protected]