Red Right Hand
#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Greg O'Beirne)
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......
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 -----
-- Greg O'Beirne gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
