Cave Nick - The Good Son guitar tab
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
(andyf@cogs.susx.ac.uk)
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.
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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
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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 humming the piano melody over the top).
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Worked out and Compiled by Andy Field (May 1995)
Comments/corrections to andyf@cogs.susx.ac.uk
