Red Right Hand Lyrics

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#From: gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Greg O'Beirne)
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# Red Right Hand Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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# transcribed by Greg O'Beirne (gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)
# all comments & corrections welcome......
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Chord sequence: (two bars of each) B B E B F# E B B
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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 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 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
Solo #1
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Play the above four times (once each over chords B,B,E,B)
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Play this once over F# chord
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Play this once over B chord
Crd: B B G B B G
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Play this twice over chords written above... (BBG,BBG)
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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
Solo #2
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Play the above three times (once each over chords B,B,E)
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Play this once over B chord
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Play this once over F# chord
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Play this once over B chord
Crd: B B G B B G
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Play this three times over chords written above... (BBG,BBG)
then finish on a B:
Greg O'Beirne
gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au