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
: : FOI NA CRUZ : : : Intro: : : / : : : : : Foi na cruz, foi na cruz : : : que um dia : : : meus pecados castigados em Jesus : : : Foi na cruz : : : que um dia : : : Foi na cruz : : : Love comes a knocking, comes a knocking at my door : : / / : but you, you and me, love we don't live there anymore. : : : Repeat this pattern for all other verses/choruses. : ********************************************************************************************** : : THE GOOD SON : : : : 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 : : : : The Good Son : : : The Good son : : : The Good son : : : : the good son has sat and often wept..... : : : : ....... : : : : One more man gone : one more man gone : : [ / ] : one more man : : : One more man gone ... : : etc : : ************************************************************************************************ : : SORROW'S CHILD : : : (G) () : Sorrow's child sits by the river : : : Sorrow's child hears not the water : : : Sorrow's child sits by the river : : : Sorrow's child hears not the water : : : and just when it seems as though you've got strength enough to stand : : : sorrow's child all weak and strange stands waiting at your hand. : : : repeat : : : : Piano Solo bit at end: : : / / / / / / : : - You'll have to play along to the record to work out where the changes come (it's fairly obvious from humming the piano melody over the top). : : ************************************************************************************************* : : THE WEEPING SONG : : Easy one this ..... : : intro Gm : : (C, D - notes played on 5th string) : : : : Go son, go down to the water : : : and see the women weeping there : : : then go up into the mountains : : : the men they are weeping too. : : : Father why are all the women weeping? : : : They are all weeping for their men : : : Then whay are all the men there weeping? : : : They are weeping back at them : : : This is a weeping song, a song in which to weep : : : 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 : : : : Come sail your ships around me : : : and burn your bridges down : : : we make a little history baby : : : everytime you come around : : : come loose your dogs upon me : : : and let your hair hang down : : : you are a little mystery to me : : : Everytime you come around. : : ¤ : : : We talk about it all night long : : : we define our moral ground : : : but when I crawl into your arms : : : everything comes tumbling down. : : : Come sail your ships around me : : : and burn your bridges down : : : we make a little history baby : : : 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 : : : and though i left quite quietly : : { G F# F D F(lo)} (guit Riff 1) : my father raged and raged and my mother wept : : : now, my life was like a river all sucked into the ground : : : and then the hammer came down, Lord the hammer came down : : : : : Repeat until: : : : : Then I came upon a river and I laid my saddle down : : : and then the hammer came down, lord, the hammer came down : : : it knocked me to the ground and I said "please please, : : : take me back to my home town", Lord, the hammer came down : : : ************************************************************************************************ : : LAMENT : : : : I've seen your fairground hair, your seaside eyes : : : your vampire tooth and your little truth, your tiny lies : : : I know your trembling hand, your guilty prize : : : your sleeping limbs, your foreign hymns your midnight cries. : : : So dry your eyes and turn your head away : : : 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! : : / / / : : : Yeah, yeah, well well : I took a walk down to the port : : : where strangers met and do consort : : : All blinkered with desire : : : and a winter fog moved thickly on : : : a winter fog moved thickly on : : : a winter fog moved thickly on. : : : 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: : : : 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" : : : and I said "babe you are a liar" : "babe you are a liar" : "babe you are a liar" : : : "babe you are a liar" : : : "babe you are a liar too" : : D (with bass bit) : : repeat D until end. : : ********************************************************************************************** : : LUCY : : : : Last night I lay trembling : : : the moon it was low : : : it was the end of love : : : of misery and woe : : : then suddenly above me : : : her face burned in light : : : came a vision of beauty : : : all covered in white : : : now the bell tower is ringing : : : and the night has stole past : : : O Lucy, can you hear me? : : : wherever you rest. : : : Rpt over remaining words. : : ************************************************************************************************ :
