Red Right Hand

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 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

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

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

gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au