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Cave Nick - The Kindness Of Strangers guitar tab

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SONG : The Kindness Of Strangers

AUTHOR : Nick Cave

ALBUM : Murder Ballads (1996)

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THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS (Nick Cave)

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They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed

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With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head

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O poor Mary Bellows

She'd grown up hungry she'd grown up poor

She left her home in Arkansas

O poor Mary Bellows

She wanted to see the deep blue sea

She travelled across Tennessee

O poor Mary Bellows

She met a man along the way

He introduced himself as Richard Slade

O poor Mary Bellows

Poor Mary thought that she might die

When she saw the ocean for the first time

O poor Mary Bellows

She checked into a cheap little place

Richard Slade carried in her old suitcase

O poor Mary Bellows

"I'm a good girl, sir," she said to him

I couldn't possibly permit you in

O poor Mary Bellows

Shade tipped his hat and winked his eye

And turned away without goodbye

O poor Mary Bellows

She sat on her bed and thought of home

With the sea breeze whistling all alone

O poor Mary Bellows

In hope and loneliness she crossed the floor

And undid the latch on her front door

O poor Mary Bellows

They found her the next day cuffed to the bed

A rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head

O poor Mary Bellows

So mothers keep your girls at home

Don't let them journey out alone

Tell them this world is full of danger

And to shun the company of strangers

O poor Mary Bellows

O poor Mary Bellows

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