Nick Cave (and the Bad Seeds)

Red Right Hand(Tabs)

Nick Cave (and the Bad Seeds)

Key: B

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	        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 ----- 
 
 
-- 
Greg O'Beirne 
[email protected] 
 
 

	        

Written by Nick Cave/Alex Harvey/Mick Harvey/Thomas Wydler

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