Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Sorrowful Wife (Guitar)

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Am
I married my wife on the day of the eclipse

Dm
Our friends awarded her courage with gifts

Am
Now as the nights grow longer and the season shifts

G
I look to my sorrowful wife

       F       G           Am
Who is quietly tending her flowers

       F       G
Who is quietly tending her.....
(played over piano solo) Am - Dm - Am - Dm - F - G - Am - Dm - Am - Dm
Am
The water is high on the beckoning river

Dm
I made her a promise I could not deliver

Am
And the cry of the birds sends a terrible shiver

G
Through me and my sorrowful wife

       F            G         Am
Who is shifting the furniture around

       F            G
Who is shifting the furniture around
(played over piano solo) Am - Dm - Am - Dm - F - G - Am - Dm - Am - Dm
Am
Now we sit beneath the knotted Yew

Dm
And the bluebells bob around our shoes

Am
The task of remembering the telltale clues

G
Goes to my lovely, my sorrowful wife

       F            G           Am
Who is counting the days on her fingers

       F            G              Dm
Who is counting the days on her.....

            Am
Come on and help me babe

        Dm
Come on now

Am
Help me babe

      Dm
I was blind

F   
The grass here grows long and high

G
Twists right up to the sky

Am                   Dm
White clouds roll on by

                Am
Come on now and help me babe

      Dm
I was blind

        Am
I was a fool babe

      Dm
I was blind

  F
A loose wind last night blew down

  G
Black trees bent to the ground

      Am                   Dm
Their blossoms made such a sound

                             Am
That I could not hear myself think babe

      Dm
I was blind

        Am
I was a fool babe

        Dm
I was a blind fool babe

        Am
I was a fool babe

       Dm
I was blind babe

  Am
A fool babe

      Dm 
I was blind fool babe

        Am   Dm Am Dm
I was a fool

Am
Blind babe

Dm
Blind babe

Am
Blind babe

      Dm
Blind fool babe