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Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Guitar Chords
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A staple of the Bad Seeds live shows.
Brooding B minor blues, punctuated with two near-apocalytpic instrumental wigouts -
especially on the various live versions!
NB some live recordings are in Bbm, but mostly in Bm
Standard tuning
Chords
Bm x24432
Em 022000
F#7 242322
E7 020100
Gm7 350000
[Intro]
Bm
(4 bars)
[Verse 1]
(Bm)
Take a little walk to the edge of town and go across the tracks
Where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom as it shifts and cracks
Em
Where secrets lie in the border fires in the humming wires
Bm
Hey man you know you're never coming back
Past the square past the bridge past the mills past the stacks
F#7
On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
E7
In a dusty black coat with a red right hand
Bm
[Verse 2]
(Bm)
He'll wrap you in his arms tell you that you've been a good boy
He'll rekindle all the dreams it took you a lifetime to destroy
Em
He'll reach deep into the hole heal your shrinking soul
Bm
But there won't be a single thing that you can do
He's a God he's a man he's a ghost he's a gu-ru
F#7
They're whispering his name through this disappearing land
E7
But hidden in his coat is a red right hand
Bm
[Verse 3]
(Bm)
You don't have no money he'll get you some
You don't have no car he'll get you one
Em
You don't have no self respect you feel like an insect
Bm
Well don't you worry buddy 'cause here he comes
Through the ghettos and the barrio and the bowery and the slum
F#7
A shadow is cast wherever he stands
E7
Stacks of green paper in his red right hand
Bm
[Instrumental]
(Bm)
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|5-----------4-5-|4--2-4-2----0-2-|0---------------|2---------------|
E|----------------|----------------|--------2-------|----------------|
(Bm)
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|5-----------4-5-|4--2-4-2----0-2-|0---------------|2---------------|
E|----------------|----------------|--------2-------|----------------|
Em
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|9-----------7-9-|7--5-7-5----4-5-|4--------0------|2---------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
Bm
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|5-----------4-5-|4--2-4-2----0-2-|0---------------|2---------4-5-7-|
E|----------------|----------------|--------2-------|----------------|
F#7 E7
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|7---------7-5-4-|7-5-4-----0-2-4-|5-------5-4-2-0-|5-4-2-0----2--0-|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
Bm
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|9-----------7-9-|7--5-7-5----4-5-|4--------0------|2---------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
(Bm) Gm7 Bm Gm7 Bm
[Verse 4]
(Bm)
You'll see him in your nightmares you'll see him in your dreams
He'll appear out of nowhere but he ain't what he seems
Em
You'll see him in your head on the TV screen
Bm
Hey buddy I'm warning you to turn it off
He's a ghost he's a God he's a man he's a gu-ru
F#7
You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
E7
De-signed and directed by his red right hand
[Instrumental]
Bm Gm7 Bm Gm7 Bm Gm7 Bm Gm7 Bm
We also have 12 songs by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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- Henry Lee
- Into My Arms
- Mercy Seat
- O Children
- People Aint No Good
- Red Right Hand
- The Mercy Seat
- The Ship Song
- The Weeping Song
- To Be By Your Side
- Where The Wild Roses Grow
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