Red Right Hand
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds • Key:
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Red Right Hand
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
#From: gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Greg O'Beirne)
#Chord sequence: (two bars of each )
#B B E B F# E B B
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
A
F#
shadow is cast wherever he stands
E
Stacks of green paper in his red right hand
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)
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
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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