Red Right Hand - Nick Cave, ukulele chords

Published: 2012-10-17 16:57
Selection chords: Sofia Davis

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Take a little walk to the edge of town,
B
Go across the tracks
B
Where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom,
B
As it shifts and cracks
E7
Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires,
E7
Hey man, you know youʼre never coming back
B
Past the square, past the bridge,
B
Past the mills, past the stacks
F#
On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
E7
In a dusty black coat with a red right hand

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B
Heʼll wrap you in his arms,
B
Tell you that youʼve been a good boy
B
Heʼll rekindle all the dreams
B
It took you a lifetime to destroy
E7
Heʼll reach deep into the hole, heal your shrinking soul,
E7
But there wonʼt be a single thing that you can do
B
Heʼs a ghost, heʼs a god, heʼs a man, heʼs a guru
F#
Theyʼre whispering his name through this disappearing land
E7
But hidden in his coat is a red right hand

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B
You donʼt own no money? Heʼll get you some
B
You donʼt have no car? Heʼll get you one
E7
You donʼt have no self respect, you feel like an insect,
E7
Well donʼt you worry buddy cause here he comes
B
Through the ghetto and the barrio and the bowery and the slum
F#
A shadow is cast wherever he stands
E7
Stacks of green paper in his red right hand

B

B
Youʼll see him in your nightmares, youʼll see him in your dreams
B
Heʼll appear out of nowhere but he aint what he seems
E7
Youʼll see him in your head, on the TV screen
E7
And hey buddy, Iʼm warning you to turn it off
B
Heʼs a ghost, heʼs a god, heʼs a man, heʼs a guru
F#
Youʼre one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
E7
Designed and directed by his Red Right Hand

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