From: [email protected] (Greg O’Beirne)
Red Right Hand Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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Transcribed by Greg O’Beirne ([email protected])
All comments & corrections welcome……
B -244—
E —245-
F# —467-
G —578-
Chord sequence: (two bars of each) B B E B F# E B B
Crd lyr
B Take a little walk to the edge of town, go across the tracks
B Where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom, as it shifts and cracks
E Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires,
Hey man, you know you’re never coming back
B Past the square, past the bridge, past the mills, past the stacks
F# On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
E In a dusty black coat with a red right hand
B
B
B He’ll wrap you in his arms, tell you that you’ve been a good boy
B He’ll rekindle all the dreams it took you a lifetime to destroy
E He’ll reach deep into the hole, heal your shrinking soul,
But there won’t be a single thing that you can do
B He’s a ghost, he’s a god, he’s a man, he’s a guru
F# They’re whispering his name through this disappearing land
E But hidden in his coat is a red right hand
B
B
B You don’t own no money? He’ll get you some
B You don’t have no car? He’ll get you one
E You don’t have no self respect, you feel like an insect,
Well don’t 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
E Stacks of green paper in his red right hand
B
Solo #1
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
E ——————————————————————
B ——————————————————————
G ——————————————————————
D —4————2-4-2—0-2-0——0———————————
A ——————————4—4——0——-2——————
E ——————————————————————
Play the above four times (once each over chords B,B,E,B)
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
E ——————————————————————
B ——————————————————————
G —2————0-2-2—0-2———0——————————-
D ——————————4—————4—2—4-2-0—2—
A ——————————————————————
E ——————————————————————
Play this once over F# chord
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
E ——————————————————————
B ——————————————————————
G ——————————————————————
D —4————2-4-2—0-2-0——0———————————
A ——————————4—4——0——-2——————
E ——————————————————————
Play this once over B chord
Crd: B B G B B G
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
E ——————————————————————
B ——————8——————————-8—————
G —4——4———7—————4——4———7—————
D —4——4———5—————4——4———5—————
A —2——2————————-2——2————————-
E ——————————————————————
Play this twice over chords written above… (BBG,BBG)
Crd lyr
B You’ll see him in your nightmares, you’ll see him in your dreams
B He’ll appear out of nowhere but he aint what he seems
E You’ll see him in your head, on the TV screen
And hey buddy, I’m warning you to turn it off
B He’s a ghost, he’s a god, he’s a man, he’s a guru
F# You’re one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
E Designed and directed by his Red Right Hand
B
Solo #2
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
E ——————————————————————
B ——————————————————————
G ——————————————————————
D —4————2-4-2—0-2-0——0———————————
A ——————————4—4——0——-2——————
E ——————————————————————
Play the above three times (once each over chords B,B,E)
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
E ——————————————————————
B ——————————————————————
G ——————————————————————
D —4————2-4-2—0-2-0——0————————-0—2—
A ——————————4—4——0——-2——4————
E ——————————————————————
Play this once over B chord
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
E ——————————————————————
B ——————————————————————
G —2————2-0——2-0———0————0——-0————
D ——————4——-4-0-2-4—————4-2-0—4-2-0-2-0-
A ——————————————————————
E ——————————————————————
Play this once over F# chord
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
E ——————————————————————
B ——————————————————————
G ——————————————————————
D —4————2-4-2—0-2-0——0———————————
A ——————————4—4——0——-2——————
E ——————————————————————
Play this once over B chord
Crd: B B G B B G
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
E ——————————————————————
B ——————8——————————-8—————
G —4——4———7—————4——4———7—————
D —4——4———5—————4——4———5—————
A —2——2————————-2——2————————-
E ——————————————————————
Play this three times over chords written above… (BBG,BBG)
Then finish on a B:
E ——
B ——
G —4—
D —4—
A —2—
E ——
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Greg O’Beirne
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