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Subject: Nick cave - Henry's Dream - Chords
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:54:37 +0100 (BST)
From: "Andy Field" 

The Chords to Henry's Dream (mute 1992) by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Compiled as accurately as possible (but I'm not infallible so corrections are
welcomed!) by Andy Field July 1995.

Andy Field
(andyf@cogs.susx.ac.uk)



>
> @ALBUM: Henry's Dream
> by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> @SONG: PAPA WON'T LEAVE YOU, HENRY
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Well,this one is in the key of F but is played with a Capo at the first fret as
> far as I can gather.
>
> INTRO:
>
>
> Capo
> |-*-|---|---|--
> |-*-|---|---|--
> |-*-|---|---|--
> |-*-|---|-4-|--
> |-*-|---|-3-|--
> |-*-|---|---|--
>
> |-*-|---|---|--
> |-*-|---|---|--
> |-*-|---|---|--
> |-*-|---|---|-4
> |-*-|---|-3-|--
> |-*-|---|---|--
>
> You can get the rhythm from the record. bssically you play the top chord above (an Fm)
> and just slide your 4th finger up one fret and back down again in time with the record.
>
> ****************
>
> Fm (same pattern as intro)
>
> I went out walking the other day
> The wind hung wet around my neck
> My head it rung with screams and groans
> >From the night I spent amongst her bones
> I past beside the mission house
> Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend,
> Shrieked and flapped about life after your dead
> Well, I thought about my friend, Michel
> How they rolled him in linoleum
> And shot him in the neck
> A bloody halo, like a think-bubble
> Circling his head
> And I bellowed at the firmament
>
>                                  C
> Looks like the rains are hear to stay
> And the rain pissed down upon me
>
>            Bb G#  G   Fm
> And washed me all a - way
> Saying
>
> Fm
> Papa won't leave you, Henry
> Papa won't leave you, Boy
> Papa won't leave you, Henry
> Papa won't leave you, Boy
> Well, the road is long
> And the road is hard
>
>                      C
> And many fall by the side
> But Papa won't leave you, Henry
>
>           C    Bb  G#  G  Fm
> So there ain't no need to cry
>
> Fm
> And I went on down the road
> He went on down the road
> And I went on down the road
> He went on down the road
>
> Repeat above for second verse/chorus
>
> *****
>
> (at the end of various phrases in this bit Blixa plays two notes
> Bb (3rd string 5th fret) and G# (4th string 6th fret). He puts a lot
> of vibrato on both notes. You can slot them in where appropriate.
>
>
> Fm
> And I came upon a little house
> A little house upon a hill
> And I entered through, the curtain hissed
> Into the house with its blood-red bowels
> Where wet-lipped women with greasy fists
> Crawled the ceilings and the walls
> They filled me full of drink
> And led me round the rooms
> Naked and cold and grinning
> Until everything went black
> And I came down spinning
> I awoke so drunk and full of rage
> That I could hardly speak
> A fag in a whale-bone corset
> Draping his dick across my cheek
> And its into the shame
> And its into a guilt
> And its into the fucking fray
> And the walls ran red around me
> A warm arterial spray
> Saying
> Papa won't leave you, Henry
> Papa won't leave you, Boy
> Papa won't leave you, Henry
> Papa won't leave you, Boy
> Well, the night is dark
> And the night is deep
> And its jaws are open wide
> But Papa won't leave you, Henry
> So there ain't no need to cry
>
> Repeat verse/chorus structure over the last verse/chorus.
>
>
> This version represents the live seeds version more than the Henry's dream version because the HD
> version has more pronounced keyboard parts which embellish what the guitar does. Still this is
> what the guitarists play believe it or not!!
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> @SONG: I HAD A DREAM, JOE
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Cm      F
> I had a dream
>
>         D
> I had a dream
>
>          Gm
> I had a dream
>
> Cm      F      Bb
> I had a dream, Joe
>
>
> -------- Gm
> I had a dream, Joe
>
>                          Eb                D
> You were standing in the middle of an open road
>
>         Gm
> I had a dream, Joe
> Your hands were raised up to the sky
>
>           Eb                  D
> And your mouth was covered in foam
>
>         Gm
> I had a dream, Joe
>
>                 Eb                   D
> A shadowy Jesus flitted from tree to tree
>
>          Gm
> I had a dream, Joe
>
>                               Eb                     D
> And a society of whores stuck needles in an image of me
>
>         Gm
> I had a dream, Joe
>
>                         Eb               D
> It was Autumn time and thickly fell the leaves
>
>             Gm
> And in that dream, Joe
>
>                           Eb
> A pimp in seersucker suit sucked a toothpick
>
>     D                     Cm
> And pointed his finger at me
>
> Cm      F
> I had a dream,
>
>          D
> (I had a dream)
>
>         Gm
> I had a dream,
>
> Cm       F     Bb
> I had a dream, Joe
>
> Repeat over other verses Choruses.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> @SONG: STRAIGHT TO YOU
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Intro
>
> G# / Gm
>
>         G#                  Gm
> All the towers of ivory are crumbling
>
>         G#                            Gm
> And the swallows have sharpened their beaks
>
> G#      Bb  Eb                   G#
> This is the time of our great undoing
>
>             Eb                   G#
> This is the time that I'll come running
>
> G#       Gm Fm
> Straight to you
>
>           G#
> For I am captured
>
> G#       Gm Fm
> Straight to you
>
>          G#
> For I am captured
>
> Bb       Eb
> One more time
>
> G# / Eb / G# / Fm / G# / Bb /
>
> G#                         Gm
> The light in our window is fading
>  etc.
>
>
> G#           Bb       Gm   G#
> Gone are the days of rainbows
>
> G#           Bb         Gm               G#
> Gone are the nights of swinging from the stars
>
>         Eb                      G#
> For the sea will swallow up the mountains
>
>         Eb                               G#
> And the sky will throw thunder-bolts and sparks
>
> G#       Gm Fm
> Straight at you
>
>                 G#
> But I'll come a-running
>
> G#       Gm Fm
> Straight to you
>
>                 G#
> But I'll come a-running
>
> Bb       Eb
> One more time
>
> repeat verse pattern over last verse.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> @SONG: BROTHER, MY CUP IS EMPTY
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Riff
>
> -----------------
> -----------------
> -----------------
> -----------------
> -------2--3^--2--
> -0--3------------
>
>
>
>
> Em
> Brother, my cup is empty
> And I haven't got a penny
>
>        Am
> For to buy no more whiskey
>
>   Em (Riff - tab)
> I have to go home
>
> Em
> I am the captain of my pain
> Tis the bit, the bridle,
> The trashing cane
>
>      Am
> The stirrup, the harness
> The whipping mane
>
>     Em
> The pickled eye
> The shrinking brain
> O brother, buy me one more drink
> I'll explain the nature of my pain
>
>      Am
> Yes, let me tell you once again
>
>     Em (Riff)
> I am the captain of my pain
>
>
> Rpt over subsequent verse/chorus
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> @SONG: CHRISTINA THE ASTONISHING
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> D
> Christina the Astonishing
>
>                   Gm
> Lived a long time ago
> She was stricken with a seizure
>
>                      D
> At the age of twenty-two
> They took her body in a coffin
>
>                     Gm
> To a tiny church in Liege
> Where she sprang up from the coffin
>
>                      D
> Just after the Agnus Dei
> She soared up to the rafters
>
>                       Gm
> Perched on a beam up there
> Cried "The stink of human sin
>
>      Eb                      D
> The stink Is more that I can bear"
>
> Eb  Bb  G#            Gm
> Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh Rpt
>
> Eb  Bb  G#            Gm     D
> Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh, oh
>
> Repeat over subsequent verses.
>
> (there is actually no Guitar on this track on the record
> everything is played on a keyboard)
>
> --------------------------
> @SONG: WHEN I FIRST CAME TO TOWN
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> INTRO:
>
>
> E |---|---|---|x
> B |---|---|---|x        Standard Chord tab - numbers relate to fingers
> G |---|---|---|o                             'x' means the string isn't played
> D |---|-*-|---|2                             'o' means the string is played 'open'.
> A |---|---|-*-|3
> E |---|---|---|x
>
>
> E |---|---|---|x
> B |---|---|---|x
> G |---|---|---|o
> D |---|---|---|o
> A |---|---|-*-|3
> E |---|---|---|x
>
> These two chords are 'picked' one string at a time from the A string down to the open G.
> i.e. you pick the three notes in the first chord, remove one finger and pick the three
> notes of the second chord (I will refer to this as the 'C Pattern'). This pattern is repeated over and over until the line "oh lord how quickly, they changed their tune' over which you play (with the same 'plucking' pattern as before) - I shall call this > the 'F pattern');
>
>
> E |---|---|---|x
> B |---|---|---|x
> G |---|-*-|---|2
> D |---|---|---|x
> A |---|---|-*-|3
> E |-*-|---|---|1
>
> E |---|---|---|x
> B |---|---|---|x
> G |---|---|---|o
> D |---|---|---|x
> A |---|---|-*-|3
> E |-*-|---|---|1
>
>
> Then change back to the first pattern for the beginning of the next piece of lyric.
> i.e.
>
> C pattern
>
> When I first came to town
> All the people gathered round
> They bought me drinks
>
>
>            F pattern                 C Pattern
> Lord, how quickly they changed their tune
>
> rpt over next lyrics;
>
> When I first came to town
> People took me round from end to end
> Like someone may take round a friend
> O how quickly they changed their tune
>
> Suspicion and dark murmurs surround me
> Everywhere I go they confound me
> As though the blood on my hands
> Is there for every citizen to see
>
>
> F
> O sweet Jesus
>
>                     C
> There is no turning back
>
>          Gm              Eb
> There is always one more town
>
>          Cm               F
> A little further down the track
>
> C
> And from my window, across the tracks
> I watch the juicers burn their fires
> And in that light
> Their faces leer at me
>
>       F                       C
> How I wish they'd just let me be
>
> C
> When I first came to town
> Their favours were for free
>
> Now even the doors of the whores of
>
>  F                       C
>  this town Are closed to me
>
>
> Repeat these basic chorus/verse patterns through the rest of the song. Should be easy if you just follow the record.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> @SONG: JOHN FINN'S WIFE
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Fm
>
> Well the night was deep and the night was dark
> And I was at the old dance-hall on the edge of town
> Some big ceremony was going down
> Dancers writhed and squirmed and then,
> Came apart and then writhed again
> Like squirming flies on a pin
> In the heat and in the din
> Yes, in the heat and in the din
> I fell to thinking about brand new wife of mad John Finn
>
> Well, midnite came and clock did strike
> And in she came, did John Finn's wife
> With legs like scissors and butcher's knives
> A tattooed breast and flaming eyes
> And a crimson carnation in her teeth
> Carving her way through the dance floor
> And I'm standing over by the bandstand
> Every eye gaping on John Finn's wife
> Yeah, every eye gaping on John Finn's wife
>
>
> Gm / Cm / Gm / Cm / Gm / Cm / F
>
> Fm
>
> Now John Finn's wife was something of a mystery
> In a town where to share a sworn secret was a solemn duty
> I had brass knuckles and a bolo knife
> Over near the bandstand with John Finn's wife
> She got perfumed breasts and raven hair
> Sprinkled with wedding confettis
> And a gang of garrotters were all giving me stares
> Armed, as they were, with machetes
> And the night through the window was full of lights
> Winking and awatching at John Finns' wife
> Winking and awatching at John Finns' wife
>
> Next came the cops, all out on the town
> But it don't look like no trouble there
> As they had for the bar in their lumpy suits
> And I slip my hand between the things of John Finn's wife
> And they seemed to yawn awake, her things
> It was a warm and very ferocious night
> The moon full of blood and light
> And my eyes grew small and my eyes grew tight
> As I plotted in the ear of John Finns' wife
>
> Gm / Cm / Gm / Cm / Gm / Cm / F
>
> Fm
> Enter John Finn in his shrunken suit
> With his quick black eyes and black cheroot
> With his filled-down teeth and a hobnail boot
> And his fists full of pistols in his pockets
> Aiming at me and aiming at his wife
> The band fall silent fearing for their lives
> And with fear in my guts like tangled twine
> Cause all I got is brass knuckles and a bolo knife
> And mad John Finns' wife is all
> And the three of us walk out of the hall
>
> Now the night bore down upon us all
> You could hear the crickets in the thickets call
> And guns did flare and guns did bawl
> And I planted my bolo knife in the neck
> Of mad John Finn. I took his wretched life
> Now I'm over near the bandstand
> Every hand moving on John Finns' wife
> Every hand moving on John Finns' wife
>
>
> Fm              Bb
> And John Finns' wife
>
>              F
> Took all the flowers down
>           Gm
> >From her hair
>
>     Cm                F
> And threw them on the ground
>
>                   Bb
> And the flies did hum
>
>                   F
> And the flies did buzz around
>
>           Gm
> Poor John Finn
>
>       Cm            F
> Lying dead upon the ground
>
>                     Bb
> Lying dead upon the ground
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> @SONG: THE LOOM OF THE LAND
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                         Fm
> It was the dirty end of winter
>
>                       G#
> Along the loom of the land
>
>                          Eb    C#
> When I walked with sweet Sally
>
> C#        Fm
> Hand upon hand
>
> Fm
> And the wind it bit bitter
>
>                 G#
> For a boy of no means
>
>                      Eb   C#
> With no shoes on his feet
>
> C#                 Fm
> And a knife in his jeans
>
> rpt
>
> Fm                  Eb
> O baby please don't cry
>
>            Fm
> And try to keep
>
>             Eb           C#
> Your little hand upon my shoulder
>
>           Fm
> Now go to sleep
>
> repeat verse/chorus pattern over remaining words.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> @SONG: JACK THE RIPPER
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Gm /  / Fm / Gm /
>
> Gm            Fm / Gm
> I got a woman
>
> Gm                          Fm   Gm
> SHe rules my house with an iron fist
>
> Gm            Fm/Gm
> I got a woman
>
> Gm                         Fm   Gm
> She rules my house with an iron fist
>
>      Dm
> She screams out Jack the Ripper
>
>        Cm                            Gm
> Every time I try to give that girl a kiss
>
> Repeat over rest of song.
>
> ***********************************************************************************************
>