Intro -
Cm

Cm
There's a thick set man with frog eyes who was standing by the door
       Bb
and a little bald man with wing nut ears was waiting in the car
     G#                    Bb                  Fm              Bb
Well Robert Moore past the frog eyed man as he walked into the bar

          Cm
and Betty Coltrane she jumped under the table

Cm
What's your pleasure asked the barman he had a face like boiled meat
           Bb
"There's a girl called Betty Coltrane who I have come to see"
       G#                Bb                  Fm          Bb
Well I haven't seen that girl round here for more than a week"
          Cm
and Betty Coltrane she hid beneath the table.


Chords worked out by Andy Field (andyf@cogs.susx.ac.uk)


Note:

In actual fact the guitar only ever plays the last two lines of each phrase
(i.e. G# Bb Fm Bb Cm). The other lines are bass only. However you can
play guitar over the whole thing if you don't have access to a band!






It was a miracle I even got out of Longwood alive,
this town full of men with big mouths and no guts;
I mean if you can just picture it,
  the whole third floor of the hotel gutted by the blast
  and the street below showered in shards of broken glass,
 and all the drunks pouring out of the dance halls
   staring up at the smoke and the flames;
  and the blind pencil seller waving his stick
  shouting for his dog that lay dead on the side of the road;
and me, if you can believe this,
at the wheel of the of the car
  closing my eyes and actually praying;
   not to god above but to you,
    saying:

     help me, girl; help me, girl
     I'll love you till the end of the world
     with your black as coal
     and your long dark curls

some things we plan,
 we sit and we invent and we plot and cook up;
others are works of inspiration, of poetry;
and it was this genius hand that pushed me up the hotel stairs
  to say my last goodbye
    to a hair as white as snow and of pale blue eyes
      saying:
         I gotta go; I gotta go,
         the bomb in the bread basket are ready to blow

in this town of men with big mouths and no guts,
the pencil seller's dog, spooked by the explosion, leaping under my wheels
 as I careered out of Longwood on my way to you
  waiting in your dress, in your dress of blue

     I said:
      thank you, girl; thank you, girl
      I'll love you till the end of the world
      with your eyes black as coal
      and your long, dark curls

and with the horses prancing through the fields,
with my knife in my jeans and the rain on the shield;
I sang a song for the glory of the beauty of you
 waiting for me
  in your dress of blue

    thank you, girl.  thank you, girl
    I'll love you till the end of the world
    with your eyes black as coal
    and your long, dark curls

  I said:
      thank you, girl; thank you, girl
      I'll love you till the end of the world
      with your eyes black as coal
      and your long, dark curls

  I said:
      thank you, girl; thank you, girl
      I'll love you till the end of the world
      with your eyes black as coal
      and your long, dark curls

  I said:
      thank you, girl; thank you, girl
      I'll love you till the end of the world
      with your eyes black as coal
      and your long, dark curls

    thank you, girl; thank you, girl
    I'll love you till the end of the world
    with your eyes black as coal
    and your long, dark curls



Transcribed by: Paul McMullan and Trond J. Stroem for Something's
Gotten Hold Of My Heart, and Blake Cotton for The Singer and
Running Scared and All Tomorrow's Parties.

   * Muddy Water
   * I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
   * Sleeping Analeah
   * Long Black Veil
   * Hey Joe
   * The Singer
   * All Tomorrow's Parties
   * By The Time I Get To Phoenix
   * The Hammer Song
   * Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
   * Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
   * The Carnival Is Over

   * Running Scared



(Cash, Daniels)


    * riff after every two lines or so
    A------2-0-------
    E----------2-----

F#                              B
As I walk these narrow streets
                                           F#
Where a million passin feet have trod before me *
F#
With my guitar in my hand
      B                   F#
Suddenly I realize nobody knows me *

B
Where yesterday the multitude
                                     F#
Screamed and cried my name out for a song *
F#
Today the streets are empty
B                            F#
And the crowds have all gone home **

F#
I pass a million houses
B                              B
But there is no place that I belong *
F#
All I knew to give you
    B                      F#
Was song after song after song *

All the truths I tried to tell you
Were as distant to you as the moon
Born 200 years too late
And 200 years too soon

I'm a child of this age
Locked into the pages of your book
And when I am but dust and clay
And all the children stop to take a look

Will they marvel at the miracles I did perform
And the heights I did aspire
Or will they tear out the pages of the book
To light a fire

With the rain on my face
There is no place that I belong
Did you forget this fucking singer so soon?
And did you forget my song?




(Velvet Underground)

These are just the standard chords, the way the Velvet Underground and I
assume the Seeds play it is with a gooseneck tuning where all the
strings are tuned to D.

    C            C         Bb   Bb/A  C
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
   F     Dm       G        G
To all tomorrow's parties

(same)
A hand-me-down dress from who knows where
To all tomorrow's parties
    F              F      G              G
And where will she go and what shall she do
     F        F      G       G
When midnight comes around
       C         C       Bb Bb/A  C
She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown

    F     Dm       C
And cry behind the door

Lead fill:

   C
e:-1---0------------0------------------------------------------
B:---------3----3---1------------------------------------------
G:------------------0------------------------------------------
D:------------------2------------------------------------------
A:------------------3------------------------------------------
E:-------------------------------------------------------------

And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
Why silks and linens of yesterday's gowns
To all tomorrow's parties

And what will she do with Thursday's rags
When Monday comes around
She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown
And cry behind the door

Solo:  (this is almost it)

   F         C           G             C
e:-5-5-5-3-----------------------------------------------------
B:---------6-3-5-5-5-5-----------3---3-3-5-5-5-5---------------
G:-----------------------2-4-4-4---4---------------------------
D:-------------------------------------------------------------
A:-------------------------------------------------------------
E:-------------------------------------------------------------

   F            C           G          C
e:-8-8-8--7--5--------------1-1-1-0----0-----------------------
B:--------------3-5-5-5-5-----------3--1-----------------------
G:-------------------------------------0-----------------------
D:-------------------------------------2-----------------------
A:-------------------------------------3-----------------------
E:-------------------------------------------------------------

And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
For Thursday's child is Sunday's clown
For whom none will go mourning

A blackened shroud, a hand-me-down gown
Of rags and silks, a costume
Fit for one who sits and cries
For all tomorrow's parties




(Greenaway/Cook)

     (NOTE: These chords are really for Gene Pitney's
     original; Cave does it in a lower key, but I haven't
     bothered to check out which. - Trond.)

     INTRO:
     C G Em D

     (Gm)Something's gotten hold of my (F)heart
     Keeping my (Eb)soul and my (D7)senses a(Gm)part
     Something's gotten into my (F)life
     Cutting it's (Eb)way through my (D7)dreams like a (Gm)knife
     (F)Turning me (Eb)up, and (D7)turning me (Gm)down
     (F)Making me (Eb)smile, and (D7)making me (Gm)frown

     (Gm)In a world that was (F)small
     I once lived in a (Bb7)time that was (Eb)peace and
     no (D7)troubles at (Gm)all
     But then you came my (F)way
     And a feeling (of) un(Gm)known shook my (F)heart,
     made me (C7)want you to (F)stay
     (C7)All of my (F)nights, and (C7)all of my (Eb)days

     (D7) (yeah I gotta tell you now)
     (Gm)Something's gotten hold of my (F)hand
     Dragging my (Eb)soul to a (D7)beautiful (Gm)land
     Yeah, something has invaded my (F)night
     Painting my (Eb)sleep with a (D7)colour so (Gm)bright
     (F)Changing the (Eb)grey, and (D7)changing the (Gm)blue
     (F)Scarlet for (Eb)me, and (D7)scarlet for (G)you

     (C) (G) (Em) (A)
     I (A7)got to know if this is the real thing
     I (A9)got to know it's making my heart sing
     Wo-hoo-(D)o-ye-e-e-e-e e-(D9)
     You (D7)smile and I am lost for a lifetime
     Each (D9)minute spent with you is the (D7)right time
     Every hour, every day
     You touch me and my mind goes astray, yeah
     Baby, baby

     (Gm)Something's gotten hold of my (F)hand
     Dragging my (Eb)soul to a (D7)beautiful (Gm)land
     Something has invaded my (F)night
     Painting my (Eb)sleep with a (D7)colour so (Gm)bright
     (F)Changing the (Eb)grey, and (D7)changing the (Gm)blue
     (?)Scarlet for (Eb)me, and (D7)scarlet for (Gm)you

     A9:xx2423
     D9:200210

     (* Play the Bb7 as a bare chord on the 6th fret to make
     it sound right, i.e. 686766. - Trond.)

     Comments from Paul McMullan:
     The position of the chords is about right I think. In
     many cases they should be played on the start of the
     word that follows the chord. For example, (F)scarlet
     ... means the F is played on the s. My positioning of
     the chords isn't exactly the same as the sheet music -
     it doesn't always correspond to where the guitar chord
     has been placed. But it does agree with the chord (or
     note) in the piano notation.




(???)

              A
Just running scared

             Bm
Each place we go

    C#m
So afraid

 E7       E9sus4  E7
That he might show

              A
Yeah, running scared

            Bm
What would I do

         C#m
If he came back

E7          A
And wanted you

                      A
Just running scared

        Bm
Feeling low

         C#m
Running scared

             E7
You loved him so

              A
Just running scared

          Bm
Afraid to lose

           C#m
If he came back

E7                   A    A7
Which one would you choose

D           D6
Then all at once

Dmaj7           D     Dmaj7  D6
He was standing there

    D         D6
So sure of himself

    Dmaj7        D    Dmaj7  D6
His head in the air

D              D6
My heart was breaking

Dmaj7              D
Which one would it be?

D            D6        D     E7        A
You turned around and walked away with me





Table of Contents:

   * Muddy Water
   * I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
   * Sleeping Analeah
   * Long Black Veil
   * Hey Joe
   * The Singer
   * All Tomorrow's Parties
   * By The Time I Get To Phoenix
   * The Hammer Song
   * Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
   * Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
   * The Carnival Is Over

   * Running Scared
   * Black Betty



(J. Bundrick)

     Mary, grab the baby, the river's rising
     Muddy water taking back the land
     The old-frame house, she can't take-a one more beating
     Ain't no use to stay and make a stand

     Well the morning light shows water in the valley
     Daddy's grave just went below the line
     Things to say, you just can't take em with ya
     This flood will swallow all you've left behind

          Won't be back to start all over
          Cause what I felt before is gone

     Mary, take the child, the river's rising
     Muddy water taking back my home
     The road is gone, there's just one way to leave here
     Turn my back on what I've left below
     Shifting land, broken farms around me
     Muddy water's changing all I know

          It's hard to say just what I'm losing
          Ain't never felt so all alone

     Mary, take the child, the river's rising
     Muddy water taking back my home

          Won't be back to start all over
          Cause what I felt before is gone

     Mary, take the child, the river's rising
     Muddy water's changing all I know
     Muddy water's changing all I know
     Lord, this muddy water is taking back my home




(J.L. Hooker)

     Yeah, my baby left me this morning
     And I don't care now, I don't care what the people say

     Yeah, I did everything that I could, everything I
     could,
     Lord knows I did everything I could
     I tried to satisfy her worried mind, that's what I did

     You know she was nothing but trouble, trouble
     She keep me worried all the time
     God knows her movements are killing me

     Yeah, my baby stayed out all night long, all night long
     She keep me worried all the time

     Yeah, I lay down last night I was thinking
     Must I kill that woman? Must I kill that woman?
     Oh Lord I get down on my knees
     They tell me God forgivin' everything you do
     But I don't care what the people say
     I'm gonna kill that woman,
     I'm gonna kill that woman, God knows
     I'm gonna get down on my knees




(Newbury, Folger)

     Yesterday the sun was shining but you're finding the
     sun it
     Don't shine all the time
     A winter day suddenly came your way
     And you ran into your mind

          Sleeping Analeah, Weeping Analeah
          Do you think you're ready for me?

     Oh and yesterday is gone forever and ever, never
     To be again
     You looked for the sunshine, that brought warmth to
     your mind
     But find only rain

          Sleeping Analeah, Weeping Analeah
          No, you're not ready for me

     But when yesterday becomes a memory, a memory
     That we uncovered in time
     If you still remember that cold September
     I reigned in your mind

          Sleeping Analeah, Weeping Analeah
          Then you'd be ready for me




(D. Del, M. Wilkins)

          She walks these hills in a long black veil
          She visits my grave when the night winds wail
          Nobody knows, nobody sees
          Nobody knows but me

     Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
     Someone was killed 'neath the Town Hall light
     There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
     That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me

     The judge he said: Son, what is your alibi
     If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die
     But I spoke not a word though it meant my life
     For I'd been in the arms of my best friends wife

     Now the scaffold is high and eternity is near
     She stood in the crowd but shed not a tear
     But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
     In a long black veil she cries on my bones




(W. Roberts)

     Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?
     Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?
     I'm gonna shoot my baby, I caught her messin round with
     another man

     Hey Joe, I heard you shot your baby down
     Hey Joe, I heard you shot your baby down
     Yes I did I shot her, I went and put her in the ground

     Hey Joe, where you gonna run to now?
     Hey Joe, where you gonna run to now?
     I'm heading way down South where I can be free
     I'm heading Mexico way, no hangman's about to put a
     leash around me




(Cash, Daniels)

     As I walk these narrow streets
     Where a million passin feet have trod before me
     With my guitar in my hand
     Suddenly I realize nobody knows me

     Where yesterday the multitude
     Screamed and cried my name out for a song
     Today the streets are empty
     And the crowds have all gone home

     I pass a million houses
     But there is no place that I belong
     All I knew to give you
     Was song after song after song

     All the truths I tried to tell you
     Were as distant to you as the moon
     Born 200 years too late
     And 200 years too soon

     I'm a child of this age
     Locked into the pages of your book
     And when I am but dust and clay
     And all the children stop to take a look

     Will they marvel at the miracles I did perform
     And the heights I did aspire
     Or will they tear out the pages of the book
     To light a fire

     With the rain on my face
     There is no place that I belong
     Did you forget this fucking singer so soon?
     And did you forget my song?




(L. Reed)

     And what costume shall the poor girl wear
     To all tomorrow's parties
     A hand-me-down dress from who knows where
     To all tomorrow's parties

     And where will she go and what shall she do
     When midnight comes around
     She'll turn once more to Sunday's gown
     And cry behind the door

     And what costume shall the poor girl wear
     To all tomorrow's parties
     Why silks and plumes of yesterday's gowns
     To all tomorrow's parties

     And what shall she do with Thursday's rags
     When Monday comes around
     She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown
     And cry behind the door

     And what costume shall the poor girl wear
     To all tomorrow's parties
     For Thursday's child is Sunday's clown
     For whom none will go mourning

     A blackened shroud, a hand-me-down gown
     Of rags and silks, a costume
     Fit for one who sits and cries
     For all tomorrow's parties




(J. Webb)

     By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising
     And she'll find that note that I left hanging on the
     door
     And she'll laugh when she reads the part
     That says: "I'm leaving"
     Cause I've left that girl so many times before

     And by the time I get to Albuquerque, she'll be working
     And she'll take off time just to give me a call
     And she'll hear that phone keep right on ringing and
     ringing
     On the wall, yeah oh, that's all

     And by the time I make Oklahoma, she'll be sleeping
     She'll turn softly in her sleep and call my name out
     low
     And then she'll cry just to think that I'd really leave
     her, I left her
     But time after time after time I tried to tell her so
     But she just didn't know That I would really go
     That I would really go




(A. Harvey)

     Oh please don't send me out
     Said the man with the hammer, hammering the anvil
     I been walking on a road of rocks
     And I keep on hammering, keep on hammering, keep on
     hammering,
     Hammering the anvil

     Don't let the sun go down
     Said the man with the fire, firing the furnace
     I been buried in the snow
     And I keep on firing, keep on firing, keep on firing,
     Firing the furnace

     Oh don't talk to me
     Said the man with the chisel, chiseling the surface
     I been sleeping far too long
     And I keep on chiseling, keep on chiseling, keep on
     chiseling,
     Chiseling the surface

     I don't know what you mean
     Said the man with the shovel, shoveling the ashes
     I been digging in the frozen ground
     And I keep on shoveling, keep on shoveling, keep on
     shoveling,
     Shoveling the ashes

     Shoveling the ashes
     Chiseling the surface
     Firing the furnace
     Hammering the anvil




(Greenaway, Cooke)

     Something's gotten hold of my heart
     Keeping my soul and my senses apart
     Something's gotten into my life
     Cutting its way through my dreams like a knife
     Turning me up and turning me down
     Making me smile and making me frown

          In a world that was small
          I once lived in a time there was peace with
          no trouble at all
          But then you came my way
          And a feeling unknown shook my heart, made me
          want you to stay
          All of my nights and all of my days

     I gotta tell you now
     Something's gotten hold of my hand
     Dragging my soul to a beautiful land
     Something has invaded my nights
     Painting my sleep with a colour so bright
     Changing the grey and changing the blue
     Scarlet for me and scarlet for you

          I've got to know if this is the real thing
          I've got to know what's making my heart sing
          You smile and I am lost for a lifetime
          Each minute spent with you is the right time
          Every hour, every day
          You touch me and my mind goes astray




(Traditional, Arr. The Alabama Singers)

     Jesus met the woman at the well
     Jesus met the woman at the well
     And he told her, everything that she'd done, that she'd
     done

     And he said, woman, look-a here woman,
     Tell me where is your husband?
     She said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't have one

     He said, woman, look-a here woman,
     They tell me you have five husbands
     And that man you have now sure ain't one

     She went running, crying, God help me
     She said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you must be the
     prophet
     Because you told me everything that I've done




(T. Springfield, F. Farian)

     Say goodbye, my one true lover
     And we'll steal a lover's song
     How it breaks my heart to leave you
     Now the carnival has gone

     Oh my love, the dawn is breaking
     And my tears are falling rain
     For the carnival is over
     We may never meet again

     Like a drum my heart was beating
     And your kiss was sweet as wine
     But the joys of love are fleeting
     For Pierrot and Columbine

     Now the cloak of night is falling
     This will be our last goodbye
     Though the carnival is over
     I will love you till I die




(Orbison, Melson)

     Just running scared, each place we go
     So afraid, that he might show

     Yeah, running scared, what would I do
     If he came back and wanted you?

     Just running scared, feeling low
     Running scared that you love him so

     Just running scared, afraid to lose
     If he came back, which one would you choose?

     And then all at once, he was standing there
     So sure of himself, his head in the air
     While my heart was breaking, which one would it be?
     Then you turned round and walked right out on me




(Leadbelly)
A traditional version is also available.

     Look-a look-a yonder (3x)
     Well the sun done gone

     The captain can't hold her (3x)
     The way I do now

     Ada got a gold mine (3x)
     Way above her knees

     The shiv (?) is golden (3x)
     Above her knees

     Look-a look-a yonder (3x)
     Well the sun done gone

     Wohoh, Black Betty, bam-e-lam (2x)
     Black Betty had a baby, bam-e-lam (2x)
     Damn thing was crazy, bam-e-lam (2x)
     Wohoh, Black Betty, bam-e-lam (2x)
     Oh, Betty Black Betty, bam-e-lam (2x)
     Black Betty had a baby, bam-e-lam (2x)
     Damn thing was crazy, bam-e-lam (2x)
     Black Betty didn't mind, bam-e-lam (2x)
     Damn thing was blind, bam-e-lam (2x)
     Wohoh, Black Betty, bam-e-lam (2x)
     Black Betty, Black Betty, bam-e-lam (2x)
     Jump steady Black Betty, bam-e-lam (2x)

     That Monday, I was arrested
     Tuesday, I locked up in jail
     Wednesday baby, my trial's tested
     On Thursday, nobody could blow my bail

          Yes, I'm almost done (3x)
          And I ain't gonna yell against no bells

     On Monday, baby I went a-walking
     Tuesday, I .... asked to go
     On Wednesday I sat down a-talking
     On Thursday she hock all a my clothes

          Yes, I'm almost done (3x)
          And I ain't gonna .... no more





Transcribed by Maria...


   * The Friend Catcher
   * Waving My Arms
   * Catman
   * Mr. Clarinet
   * Happy Birthday
   * A Catholic Skin
   * The Red Clock
   * Faint Heart
   * Death By Drowning
   * The Hair Shirt
   * Hats On Wrong
   * Guilt Parade
   * Riddle House



     I have a friend in you, oh Mr Clarinet
     You make me laugh, and then cry like the song of the
     clarinet.
     Marry me, marry me alive O
     I put on my coat of trumpets
     Will she be there? Is my piccolo on straight?

     Her white stockings and red dress that goes
     swish, swish, swish around her legs of lace
     Marry me, marry me alive O

     Could you tell her
     Would you tell her for me, oh Mr Clarinet
     That I love her love her, oh love her
     I love her but I cannot wait

     Marry me, marry me alive O
     Oh maybe, oh maybe lie down

     I love her, love her, love her
     Love her love her love her love her


Happy Birthday

     It's a very happy day
     We are at lots of fun fun fun
     And it's ice-cream and jelly
     and a punch in the belly
     How much can you throw over the walls?

     And see how his face glows
     It's a bike! What a surprise.
     It's a big bike. What a big surprise.
     It's a red bike. What a red surprise.
     Oh, what a surprise.

     But the best thing there
     But the best thing there
     Was the wonderful dog chair
     Was the beautiful dog chair
     That could count right up to ten
     It could count right up to ten
     It went woof, woof, woof, woof, woof,
     woof, woof, woof, woof, woof.

     And it's another happy day.
     He was born eleven years ago
     And this year it's long trousers
     and a very smart tie.
     Just think in five years he'll be shaving.

     And see how his face glows
     It's a bike. What a surprise!
     It's a samurai sword.
     What a metal surprise.
     He'll remember this day for the rest of his life.

     But the best thing there
     But the best thing there
     Is that fabulous dog chair
     The immaculate dog chair
     That could count right up to eleven

     It could count right up to eleven
     It went woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof,
     woof,
     woof, woof, woof.

     But the best thing there
     But the best thing there
     Was my darling the dog chair
     But the rampaging dog chair
     That could count right up to eleven
     It could count right up to eleven.

     And it went round and round the house.



Transcribed by Lehn Fitzgerald...

Table of Contents:

   * She's Hit
   * Dead Joe
   * The Dim Locator
   * Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
   * Several Sins
   * Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
   * Kiss Me Black
   * Six Inch Gold Blade
   * Kewpie Doll
   * Junkyard
   * Release The Bats
   * Blast Off



     there is woman-pie in here
     mr. evangalist says she's hit
     the best cook you ever had
     ya can't blame the good-woman now, dad
     and ya looked him up for 20 years
     now there's action on the basement stairs
     a monster half man half beast climbs
     hear the hatchet (grind, grind)
     pilgrim gets 1 hacked daughter
     and all we guys get are 40 hack reporters
     uptown 100 skirts are bleeding
     mr. evangilist says
     she's hit ev'ry little bit
     she's hit ev'ry little bit
     now if only we could all grow wings and fly
     sweet hatchet swing low son
     I'm feeling pretty lonesome
     christen the bastard jack dad
     the head-shrinker is a quack
     "anyone who'd wear their hair like that"
     the vinyl is so cool/the conversation's cruel
     hold my heart romeo its in a rodeo
     hold my head daddy-o it just won't go-o-o-o
     and all the girls across the world
     are hit ev'ry little bit




     Oh-ho-ho-ho Dead Joe
     Welcome to the car smash
     Dead Joe
     Junk sculpture turning back to junk Dead Joe
     Oh joe nooooo! it's christmas time Joe
     it's christmas time now for you and all the little
     bells are hanging 2X2 the holly and the nativity
     oh speak to me Joe speak to me Joe speak to me Joe
     oh-oh-oh-ho
     Dee---e---e--e--e-e-ad Joe
     welcome to the car crash
     you can't tell the boys from the girls anymore
     oh-ho-ho
     Dead Joe, the end.




     Inanimational items elude I, and
     In-an-emotional-motion I swallow my
     Motive of quicker location is slammed
     my dim chance of skipping this thick world is thin
     They call me Dim
     I am the Dim Locator
     Dim Locator
     Loco, lomo, loco, lomo l'wow, wow, wow
     (same as above)
     intrigueinometry treads on my trail
     Entriggering traps for a gross gang of ghost types
     Who later are packed in a cast iron trunk
     these things have been known, to get out of their wraps
     Don't call me Dim
     I am the Dim locator
     Dim Locator
     Loco, lomo......
     Fog fished and filtered is filling my case book, of
     friends who fall foul of my files trip and breakneck
     are stacked in the woodshed for further good use
     Theres some certain people who shouldn't start fires
     So call me Dim!
     I am the Dim Locator!
     Dim Locator!
     Don't call me Dim!




     Hamlet fishin' in the grave
     thru custard bones and stuff
     he aint got no friend in there
     I believe our man's in love
     Hamlet's got a gun-now
     he wears a crucifex
     pow pow pow pow
     Hamlet moves so beautiful
     walking thru the flowers
     who are hing 'round the corners
     He's movin' down the street-now
     he likes the look of that cadillac
     pow pow pow pow
     Is this love some kinda love
     Now he movin' down my street
     and he's coming to my house
     crawling up my stairs
     Where for art thou baby-face
     where-for-art-thou
     pow pow pow pow
     Is this love
     Pow!
     He shoot it inside
     Don't let'em steal your heart away
     he went and stole my heart
     POW!!
     hey hey hey
     POW!!




     This is a dead letter tale
     If I could make this print talk
     You made a deep mark/deep mark on me
     and only saints say such things as those
     so I slid under the floor
     under the oak and the iron
     with you under oak and iron
     under the thick and under the thin
     where only fire grows

     I forgot to tell you several things-Ma
     I forgot to tell you 'bout the 7 sins

     And I spat dead letter words
     and all the breath that I own
     imprinted one word in red/I read
     And only saints say such things as these
     (about the marks on your throat)
     Under the oak and the iron
     under the fat and the thick and the thin
     and all of that, and a few 100 more
     and only fire grow
     I heard the fire grow
     Alone in the......




     Big Jesus soulmates Trash Can
     fucking rotton business this
     bot feet in the bad-boot
     siff in the crypt, babay, like a rock
     rock-rock-rock
     Big-Jesus soul-mates Trash-Can
     pumped me fulla Trash at least it smelt like Trash
     wears a suit of Gold (got greasy hair)
     but God gave me sex appeal
     well-well-well-rock
     he drives a trash can
     he's comin to my town rock rock rock
     ro-o-o-o-o-ck!
     Big Jesus Oil King down in Texas
     drives great holy tanks of gold
     screams from heaven's graveyard
     American heads will roll in Texas (roll like Daddies
     meat)
     roll under those singing stars of Texas
     well-well-well
     he drives a trash can
     he's coming to my town




     Now they put the stink on us
     stuffed us fulla incubus
     choc-o-block with sucubus
     never more than fuck to us
     c'mon and kiss me black




     I stuck a six inch gold blade inside the head of a girl
     she: lying through her teeth
     him: lying on his back
     hands of this one,hands off she cried
     grinning at me from hip to hip
     hands off, pretty baby, tough blood then so soft to
     slip
     ooohh yeah
     I stuck a six inch gold blade in the head of a girl
     sharks fun slices suger-bed slices that pretty red-head
     I love you! now me! I love you!
     laughter, laughter
     oh baby, those skinny girls, they're so quick to murder
     ooohhh yeah.
     Shake it baby, c'mon, shake, shake it baby




     Well I love that Kewpie Doll
     yeah I bought her in a show
     I dressed her up in a cheap red cotton dress
     but everything was either fished-out or spat out
     fished out or spat out
     well i love that kewpie doll
     but I could not make it stick
     only she could save my soul
     she put her hands inside of me
     well I love that kewpie-doll
     dressed her in a cheap red cotton dress
     fished it out now
     spat it our now
     spat it out in front of me
     well I love that kewpie doll
     but I could not make it stick
     doll doll doll doll
     I held her in my cheap arms
     she believed in me her soul plus my arms
     well I love that kewpie doll
     I told her phony storys
     i love that kewpie doll
     she believed in me
     doll doll dolll doll
     cupie on a stick
     I can see her coming even now
     kupie on a stick
     I can see her walking to me even now
     well I love that kewpie-doll
     but I could not make it stick




     I am the King, I am the kind
     One dead marine through the hatch
     scratch and scrape this heavenly body
     every ince of winning skin
     there's garbage in honeys sack again
     honey honey honey honey
     come on and kiss me
     Honey honey honey
     honey's child is taken over this place
     two dead marines standing in line
     drink to me! this heavenly body
     every inch a winning thing
     honey honey honey
     hack hack hack hack this heavenly body
     yack yack yack yack yack goes junk-face
     scratch scape scratch this winning skin
     there's garbage in honey's sack again
     garbage in honey garbage in honey
     garbage in honey's sack again
     garbage in honey
     junkwayrd king junkyard king
     King king king




     Whoooahh! Bite! Whoooah! Bite!
     Release the bats! Release the bats!
     Don't tell me that it doesn't hurt
     a hundred fluttering in your skirt
     don't tell me that it doesn't hurt

     My baby is alright
     she doesn't mind a bit of dirt
     she says "horror vampire bat bite"
     she says "horror vampire
     How I wish those bats would bite"
     Whoooah! Bite

     Release the bats! Release the bats!
     Pump them up and explode the things
     Her legs are chafed by sticky wings
     (sticky sticky little things)

     My baby is a cool machine
     she moves to the pace of her generator,
     says damn that sex supreme
     she says damn that horror bat
     sex vampire, cool machine

     Release the bats! Release the bats!
     Release them!

     Baby is a cool machine
     she moves to the pulse of a generator
     she says damn that sex supreme
     she says, she says damn that horror bat
     sex horror sx bat sex horror sex vampire
     sex bat horror vampire sex
     coll machine
     horror bat. Bite!
     Cool Machine. Bite!
     Sex vampire. Bite!




     This time it's the truth
     this time nothings goinna fall on through
     these books
     are broken up
     Blast off!
     Wham! bam!
     Right off the shelf
     Right off the shelf
     Blast off!

     This is it- the last one
     This ine's the final-in-a-fair-field-of-wheat
     This building
     Will may be fall down
     Blast off!
     Down! down!
     Down! down!
     The ground
     Down! down!
     The ground
     Blast off!




Transcribed by Maria and Blake.

Table of Contents:

   * Jennifer's Veil
   * Mutiny In Heaven
   * Swampland
   * Say A Spell
   * Sonny's Burning
   * Wild World
   * Fears Of Gun
   * Deep In The Woods
   * Pleasure Avalanche
   * The Six Strings That Drew Blood

   * Vixo



     So you've come back for Jennifer
     You know, she hides her face behind a veil
     I'm warning you Frankie, leave on the next train
     Your Jennifer she just isn't the same
     Quit waving that thing about! Come back!
     Come back and give me a chance to explain
     Your baby will never cry again.

     So don't try to reach out
     And don't let the ship's flag down
     Point the figure-head at the storm
     And drive her hard upon
     Don't stop and don't stop
     And don't let the veil drop
     (Another ship ready to sail--the rigging is tight
     Tight like Jennifer's veil).

     She drew the curtain on her face
     Ever since they came and burnt the old place down
     Why is she searching through the ashes?
     Why, only Jennifer knows that now.
     And the officer, without a word,
     Left all his junk and just moved out.

     So don't try to reach out
     And don't let the ship's flag down
     Point the figure-head at the glass
     Smash! Smash! into shards
     Don't stop and don't touch!
     And don't let the veil drop...behind Jennifer's veil

     Oh God! Frankie! Is that really you!
     Get back! Don't reach out!
     Get back, and get that lantern out of my room!

     Don't try to reach out
     And don't let the ship's flag down
     Down, down over her, like a shroud

     And let her sail on the sea like a stone.
     Don't touch and don't touch
     And don't let the veil drop
     Another ship ready to dock...the rigging comes loose...




     Well ah jumpt! and fled this fucken heap on doctored
     wings
     Mah flailin pinions, with splints and rags and
     crutches!
     (Damn things nearly hardly flap)
     Canker upon canker upon one million tiny punctures
     That look like...
     Long thin red ribbons draped across the arms of a lil
     mortal girl
     (Like a ground -plan of Hell)
     Curse these smartin strings! These fucken ruptures!
     Enough! Enough is enough!
     (If this is Heaven ah'm bailin out)
     If this is Heaven ah'm bailin out
     Ah caint tolerate this ol tin-tub
     So fulla trash and rats! Felt one crawl across mah soul
     For a seckon there , as thought as wassa back down in
     the ghetto!
     (Rats in Paradise! Rats in Paradise!)
     Ah'm bailin out! There's a mutiny in Heaven!

     Ah wassa born...
     And Lord shakin, even then was dumpt into some icy
     font,
     like some great stinky unclean!
     From slum-chuch to slum-church, ah spilt mah heart
     To some fat cunt behind a screen...

     Evil poppin eye presst up to the opening
     He'd slide shut the lil perforated hatch...at night mah
     body
     blusht
     To the whistle of the birch
     With a lil practice ah soon learnt to use in on mahself
     Punishment?! Reward!! Punishment?! Reward!!
     Well, ah tied on...percht on mah bed ah was...
     sticken a needle in mah arm...

     Ah tied off! Fucken wings burst out mah back
     (Like ah was cuttin teeth!!)
     Ah took off!!!
     (Rats in Paradise! Rats in Paradise!)
     There's a mutiny in Heaven!

     Oh Lord, ah git down on mah knees
     (Ah git down on mah knees and start to pray)

     Wrapped in mah mongrel wings, ah nearly freeze
     In the howlin wind and drivin rain
     (All the trash blowin round 'n' round)
     >From slum-heaven into town
     Ah take mah tiny pain and rollin back mah sleeve
     (Roll anna roll anna roll anna roll)
     Ah yank the drip outa mah vein! UTOPIATE! Ah'm bailin
     out!
     UTOPIATE!
     If this is Heaven ah'm bailin out!
     Mah threadbare soul teems with vermin and louse
     Thoughts come like a plague to the head...in God's
     house!
     Mutiny in Heaven!
     (Ars infectio forco Dio)
     To the plank!
     (Rats in Paradise! Rats in Paradise!)
     Ah'm bailin out!
     (Hail Hypuss Dermio Vita Rex!)
     Hole inna ghetto! Hole inna ghetto!
     (Scabio Murem per Sanctum...Dio, Dio, Dio)




     Quixanne, ah'm in its grip
     Quixanne, ah'm in its grip
     Sinken in the mud
     Patron-saint of the Bog.
     They cum with boots of blud
     Wit pitchfawk and with club
     Chantin out mah name
     Got doggies strainin onna chain
     Lucy, ah'll love ya till the end!
     They hunt me like a dog
     Down in Sw-a-a-a-amp Land!

     So cum mah executioners! Cum bounty hunters!
     Cum mah county killers--for ah cannot run no more
     Ah cannot run no more
     Ah cannot run no more
     No I can't!
     Lucy, ya won't see this face agin
     Wheb ya caught ya swing and burn...
     Down in Sw-a-a-a-amp Land!

     The trees are veiled in fog
     The trees are veiled in fog
     Like so many jilted brides
     Now they're all breakin down and cry
     Cryin tears upon mah face
     Cryin tears upon mah face
     And they smell of gasolene
     a-a-a-a-ah- scr-e-e-e-a-am
     Lucy, ya made a sinner out of me
     Now ah'm burnin like a saint
     Down in Sw-a-a-a-amp Land!

     So cum mah executioners! Cum mah bounty huntahs!
     Cum mah county killers--ya know ah cannot run no more
     No ah cannot run no more.




     Have you heard how Sonny's burning
     Like some bright erotic star?
     And He lights up the proceedings
     And raises the temperature.
     Flame on! Flame on!

     Now I've seen to Sonny's burning
     Someday I think I'll cut him down
     But it can get so cold in here
     And he gives off such an evil heat.
     Flame on! Flame on!
     Hail my incubatic incubator.

     Now pay witness to Sonny's burning
     Warming the damp and rotten seed
     Warming the damp and rotten seed
     That blooms into the DEMON FLOWER
     Now both fire and flowers consume me.
     Flame on! Flame on!

     Evil heat is running through me
     Flame on! Flame on!
     Sonny's burning pits into me
     Flame on! Flame on!
     Sonny's burning holes into me
     Don't interrupt! Don't interrupt!
     Flame on! Flame on!




     Hold me up baby for I may fall
     Hold my dish-rag body tall
     Our bodies melt together (we are one)
     Post crucifixion baby, and all undone.

     It's a wild world

     Church bells ring out the toll of our night
     Forward and forever backward
     Forever backward forever forward alright
     Strophe and antistrophe strophe and antistrophe
     Antistophe antistrophe
     (C'mon baby, hold me tight)
     Up here in your arms tonight.

     Don't push me
     Don't push me

     It's a wild world.




     Gun wears his alcoholism well
     Finger in Bottle and swingin' it still
     From Bed to Sink and back again
     Clock is crawlin' round the same
     He's bustin' Clock (he hates its face)
     Just sittin' and talkin' to Heart and ticks
     Talkin' back to Clock in slow and studied kicks
     The fears of Gun are the fears of everyone.

     Fingers down the throat of love
     Fingers down the throat of love
     Fingers down the throat of love
     Love! Love!

     Gun does the waltz around the room
     Collecting Table and Chairs and Sofa and so on and so
     on
     Gun wears his best blue suit, now let's take to the sky
     'We'll go dancin' and eatin' it up
     Get a bottle and push it on down'
     And let's just beat it up
     Transistor radio plays an overwhelmingly sad and lonely
     song
     Saying 'Where she gone? Where she gone?'
     The fears of Gun are the fears of everyone.

     Fingers down the throat of love
     Fingers down the throat of love
     Fingers down the throat of love
     Love! Love!




     The woods eats the woman and dumps her honey-body in
     the mud
     Her dress floats down the well and it assumes the shape
     of the body of a little girl

     Yeah I recognize that girl
     She stumbled in some time last loneliness
     But I could not stand to touch her now
     My one and onlyness.

     Deep in the woods
     Deep in the woods
     Deep in the woods a funeral is swinging.

     Worms make their cruel design
     Saying D-I-E into her skin
     Saying DEAD into belly and DEATH into shoulder
     Well last night she kissed me but than DEATH was upon
     her.

     Deep in the woods
     Deep in the woods
     Deep in the woods a funeral is swinging.

     Now the killed waits for the killer
     And the trees all nod their heads, they are agreed
     This knife feels like a knife feels like a knife that
     feels like it's feed.
     Yeah I recognize that girl
     I took her from rags right through to stitches (pray
     for me now)
     Oh baby, tonight we sleep in separate ditches.

     Deep in the woods
     Deep in the woods
     Deep in the woods a funeral is swinging.

     Love is for fools and all fools are lovers
     It's raining on my house and none of the others
     Love is for fools and God knows I'm still one
     The sidewalks are filled with love's lonely children
     The sidewalk regrets that we had to kill them.




     Ah fed Vixo on ev'ry fear 'n' fret 'n' phobia
     Til it nor ah could stand the strain no longer
     Sucked a chicken bone, tossed it in the corner
     Raisin up like Lazaurs, up, up from its cot
     An making for the door, now...
     Infant-prodigy creates a phantom-friend, yeag
     Stickin' sack an ol' Jack-Jack into its itchin-ten
     Oh! Don't ya linger! Ooh! Don't ya linger, now,
     Mah monster-piect...mah perfect-murder-machine
     Don't ya linger, for ah can feel mah youth slipping
     outa me
     Yeah, ah can feel mah youth slip outa me.

     Call it, Call it Vixo. Call it Vee.
     ah all it, an it comes to me.
     Call it Vixo. Call it me
     March headlong into the heart of fear
     Ah will follow thee.

     What kept ya? Whaa? What kept ya?
     You get trouble? Sum'n go wrong?
     Vixo grinning, climbs up into mah lil boy arms.
     What you get?
     Tell me, what ya gone 'n' brung me from the hollow?
     Yeah! We're laughin'...but our laughter is shallow
     Ain't it funny...my childhood name is Sorrow.
     Vixo sighs, 'n' lays its head upon mah pillow.

     Call it. Call it Vixo. Call it Vee.
     Call it, an it comes to me.
     Vee...ah...Hex...Oh-oh, come crawl with me.
     Into the dark heart of despair
     Ah will not forsake thee.

     Listen...Instruction!
     Ditch it, Pitch it. Now hitch it up along the ridge
     Ya laughin b'neath the Sherriff's wheels
     That go screamin cross Hooper Bridge
     Skirt the out-skirts. Up mah back-stair. Ya sack all
     undone.
     Don't touch nothin! Water runnin in the tub
     Get there! and scrub ev'ry one.

     When ya STRUCK ya STRUCK!
     Ya struck a thousand crickets dumb
     Hooper-Hollow iced over then, all hush, hush
     In the cool midday sun
     Hush! Ah say Hush! Hu-u-u-ush!
     Sittin on the roof, laugh at mahself
     As they rope off the woods
     Watchin' all the good-people
     go beating the bush.




Transcribed by Lehn Fitzgerald...

Table of Contents:

   * Zoo Music Girl
   * Cry
   * Capers
   * Nick The Stripper
   * Ho-Ho
   * Figure Of Fun
   * King Ink
   * A Dead Song
   * Yard
   * Dull Day
   * Just You And Me
   * Blundertown
   * Kathy's Kisses



     Zoo-music girl, zoo-music girl
     Our ligfe together is a hollow tooth,
     spit out the shells, spit out the shells,
     You know exactly what I'm talking about
     Don't drag the orchestra into this thing
     Rattle those sticks, rattle those sticks
     The sound is beautiful, its perfect!
     The sound of her young legs in stockings
     the rhythem of her walk, it's beautiful
     Just let it twist, let it break
     let it buckle, let it bend
     I wnat the noise of my zoo music girl
     zoo-music girl zoo-music girl
     My body is a monster driven insane
     my heart is a fish toasted by flames I kiss the hem of
     her skirt
     We spend our lives in a box full of dirt
     I murder her dress and she loves it
     If there is one thing I desire in the world is to make
     love to my zoo-muic girl
     zoo-music girl, zoo-music girl
     The sound is beautiful! It's perfect!
     I call out her name in the night
     Zoo-music girl zoo-music girl
     I call her by her family name
     zoo-music girl zoo-musivc girl
     Oh God! Please let me die beneath her fists
     Zoo-Music Girl Zoo-music girl




     When ya walk out of here
     when ya walk out
     I gotta fill up that space
     or fill up that no-space
     I'll fill it up with tears [4 lines of this line
     repeated]
     Cry Cry Cry Cry
     Where no-fish can swim [4 lines of this line]
     Cry Cry Cry

     When ya slam that door when that door slams
     I gotta fill up that space
     an' I'll pack my suitcase
     I'll fill it up with clothes
     or I'll fill it up with no clothes
     I'll fill it up with tears
     and I'll Pack it up with tears etc. [written in lyric
     book, I think it returns to the chorus of CRy Cry Cry
     Where no fish can swim]

     When Ya say goodbye
     when ya say goodbye
     I'll dig my-self a hole
     and fill up that space
     I'll fill it up with flesh
     an' I'll fill it up with no flesh
     I'll fill it up with tears etc.

     Fish Swim Cry Fish CRRRRYYYY




All words that look prounouncable are not typos, any that look
unpronouncable are probably typos. Each set of two lines is one
line in the lyric book. (ie. what has not got....sir names)(one
line)

     What has not got my heart in it shall we be dubbed sir
     names
     wither million blither tongues mounting bristling guilt
     frames
     in the fake-ache of the gloomloom slippers slap me
     alive!
     The hours hands down a miracle to spend with ugly types
     so we can catch and thread a minstrel bleed a tower
     down to its ankles
     so we can't go up or stay up find the thumb dumb' in
     your ear brain
     Get unfunny! Such as choirs do why the clocklock bought
     up this one
     Just when things seem so paperparrent like my
     toothface? Like my out-do?

     Oh a streak, O'treacly [not a typo] ink-inks tied my
     knees all up in elbows
     erase that lapsing smile tub lose the slip of the small
     soap-fellows
     Account the addups till Do-nots are we balanced? we're
     in business!
     Idle tidal, rush in, tried all with a limb's... all
     legs and armour
     I had a dreadful diehood diehard drunken sunken,
     Monk-heart
     Oh I had a Wonderful diehood thanks to my fa. fa.
     family




     Nick the stripper
     hideous to the eye
     hideous to the ee
     he's a fat little insect
     a fat little insect
     and OOOOOOHHHH! Here we go again

     Nick the stripper
     dances on all fours
     dances on all fours
     He's in his birthday suit
     he's in his birthday suit
     and oooooohhhh! here we go again

     Nick the stripper
     hideous to the eye
     hideous to the eye
     he's a fat little insect
     a fucked little insect
     and OOOOOOOOHHHH! Here we go again
     Insect insect insect insect




     Worn and gnawn
     a little hole
     just a small hole
     letting in a sick wind
     in small puffs

     yo-ho hole
     yo-ho hole
     through which blow
     a small sick wind
     yo-ho hole
     yo-ho-hole
     puff puff
     the sick wind blows

     slupping stitches leading to so slight a hole
     slipping in a sick wind
     slippery sickly wind

     yo-ho-hole
     yo-ho-hole
     across the threshole
     a little sick wind
     yo-ho-hole
     yo-ho-hole
     yo-ho
     the sick wind blows




     Obsessive, deadpan
     moribund seasick etc.




This leaves out a lot of the repetions on this lyric sheet, and
I'm pretty sure a few sections are out of order compared with the
recorded song.

     King Ink strolls into town
     he sniffs around

     King Ink kicks off his stink-boot
     sand and soot and dust and dirt and
     he's much bigger than you think
     King Ink
     King Ink, wake up, get up
     Wake up, up, up, up, up, up
     A bug crawls up the wall
     King Ink feels like a bug
     and he hates his rotten shell
     Cha-cha-{10 cha's)
     King Ink, get up, go forth
     wake up-what's in that room
     wake up- what's in that house?
     Express thyself say something loudly
     AAAAHHHH! What's in that room?
     Sand and soot and dust and dirt
     dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt
     King Ink feels like a bug
     swimming in a soup-bowl
     Oh yer! Yer! What a wonderful life
     Fats Domino on the radio




     This is True
     Mister nothing said forever said
     I can sing
     Hit it! Make it a dead one
     with words like
     blood, soldier mother
     O.K. O.k.
     I want to sleep before the end
     which is impolite
     Hit It! Make it a dead one
     If nothing crops up
     I'll give you a ring
     you can sing the end
     o.k o.k.
     then I could get
     all the little animals out of my room
     Hit it! With a broom
     O.k O.k
     Put them in a big white sack
     no visitors came
     hit it! With words like.....
     Thou shalt not
     The end




     In our yard
     How many chickens can we count
     on our fingers and toes
     on their toes
     sitting on fathers hole
     siting on his chest
     crushing rocks of dirt
     the earth is soft in our
     yard yard
     stones in my shoes
     and feet
     dragging them through museums
     where
     under glass
     refridgerate
     freeze
     hands and feet
     and knobbly knees
     yard yard




     The light from the window
     falls on the floor
     and after it breaks
     I cut my feet
     on the little bright pieces
     I glow in the dark
     But only when night falls
     it's falling it's falling
     it falls

     My head is a night-club
     club-clubbed to dull drums
     beating to slow
     to dance or to breathe or to dance
     I insist that you cut in
     I A La Flambe
     i'm drinking i'm drinking
     I'm drunk




     First: I tried to kill it with a hammer
     thought that I could lose
     the head
     sure! We've eaten off the silver
     when even the food was against us
     and then I tried to kill it in the bed
     Second: I gagged it with a pillow
     but awoke the nuns inside my head
     they pound their goddy-goddy fists
     from the inside-so from the outside
     I got good: I stuck it. Dead
     Thirdly: I put my lips upon it
     And blew a frost across
     its flat
     I wrote upon its outside-surface
     "Tonite we're on the outside surface"
     Just you and me girl: You and me and the fat




     Blundertown is drowned in no brainstorm
     smothered in mud at the foot of the river
     the color vague is slapped around stupid
     blood dries to a very dull color

     I'm drowning and there is no relief from

     It's only 12,000 miles to heaven
     but the car is broken and we're all well-spoken
     I've met three people but I don't think they like me
     and we all talk about the state of the weather

     I'm drowning and there is no relief from

     And everything I say are my own thoughts
     Don't listen to my very dull brother

     I'm drowning and there is no relief from




     Kathy's kisses, They fall out of
     her mouth onto the floor, collect dust
     and sweep them under the door




Transcribed by LJ/JL Meijer, boy next door, Peter Barton, and
maurice.

Table of Contents:

   * The Nightwatchman
   * Brave Exhibitions
   * Friends Of My World
   * The Voice
   * Roman Roman
   * Somebody's Watching
   * After A Fashion
   * Dive Position
   * I Mistake Myself
   * Shivers

   * Riddle House
   * Scatterbrain
   * Enemy Of State
   * Ho Ho
   * Masturbation Generation
   * Boy Hero


(Howard)

     I've been contemplating suicide,
     but it really doesn't suit my style,
     so I think I'll just act bored instead
     who can take (alt: And Contain) the blood I would've
     shed?

     She makes me feel so ugly (alt: so weary) (alt: so ill
     at ease)
     my heart is really on it's knees
     but I keep a poker face so well
     that even mother couldn't tell

     But my baby's so vain
     she is almost a mirror
     and the sound of her name
     sends a permanent shiver down my
     SPINE

     I keep her photograph against my heart
     for in my life she plays a starring part
     all alcohol and cigarettes
     there is no room for cheap regrets

     But my baby's so vain
     she is almost a mirror
     and the sound of her name
     sends a permanent shiver down my
     SPINE

     She makes me feel so ugly
     my heart is really on it's knees
     but I keep a poker face so well
     that even mother couldn't tell

     But my baby's so vain
     she is almost a mirror
     and the sound of her name
     sends a perennial shiver down my
     SPIII-YI-YIIII-YI-YIIII-YI-YIYIYI-INE



(Howard)

     The street is very wide
     and I can't see across it
     my house isn't clear to me
     the cars move in between

     Chorus And I say: Question
     when is a door not a door???
     and I say: "That's not right!
     answer when it's a jar

     The numbers soft as soap
     and tend to bend in addition
     they're much too wan for me
     I'd prefer some consistancy

     Chorus

     The windows open wide
     but I can't see out of it
     the view is not very there
     some-times I look for it

     Chorus





Thanks to Mark Brown for most of the lyrics.

Table of Contents:

From Burning the Ice

   * Truck Love
   * Stow-a-way
   * Dumb Europe
   * Pleasure Is The Boss

From Headless Body in Topless Bar

   * I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)

From Sweat

   * Sad Dark Eyes


--------------------
 "Dumb Europe" by Die Haut with Nick Cave (from "Burning The Ice", 1983)

Music by Jochen Arbeit, Christoph Dreher, Rainer Lingk, & Thomas Wydler
Lyrics by Nick Cave

Transcribed by Greg O'Beirne (gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)

 Tempo: 80bpm
Rhythm: triplets (like "Da, d-Da, d-Da, d-Da, d-" etc...)
                   1     2     3     4

 Intro: (incredibly distorted noisy guitar)

 [Spoken above feedback - "Fucking cold europe..."]

    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
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                               la  la  la  la  la.....

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                               la  la  la  la  la.....


Verse: (virtually the same as the intro, but
   spaced so the words can fit underneath)

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 This Euro - pean   night      on the brink

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  The cafes     & the bars         still stink

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   the mist         is much        too thick       for seeing

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   not thick         e-nough       for lean-          -ing

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                                      (leave this room  in a)

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  cata -        - tonic         crawl

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   and if            I die          to-night     don't fling me in

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  some bleak   teutonic           hole

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  six             feet          under                     with

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    a snap          frozen                soul....

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   and really          we       could all             just

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  die             of              shame...

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                                                  yeah...

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  die             of              shame...

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                    Dumb Europe!

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  Dumb            Eur-          -ope....

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a laaaaaaaa       laaaaaaaa       laaaaaaa        laaaaaaa

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  laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....

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                    Dumb Europe!

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  Dumb            Eur-          -ope....

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a laaaaaaaa       laaaaaaaa       laaaaaaa        laaaaaaa

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  laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....

Lyrics:

1st Verse

On this European night out on the brink
The cafes and the bars still stink
The mist is much too thick for seeing
But not thick enough for leaning
I leave in a catatonic crawl
And if I die tonight don't fling me in
Some bleak teutonic hole
Six feet under with a snap-frozen soul
And really we could all just die of shame...
Yeah... die of shame...
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, la la la la la.

2nd Verse

On this Utopian night on the brink
Mama's face staring up at me from the bottom of the sink
Witness my trail of destruction
Just trying to leave this drinking place
My feet are magnetized for furniture
The floor's attracted to my face
And if I die tonight
Sell me as a prehistoric bone
Authentic junk-souvenir to Jap
To fob off on his friends back home
The money-dance...[mumble] I find it hard to cope with days like this etc...
Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, la la la la la.

 [The third verse is completely undecipherable, but sounds like:]

  And tonight steps into my beer in my poor '61,
  I swear that statue's read the moons
  Or my planets are all wrong
  And if I die tonight ship my body way back home
  [mumble]
  [mumble]
  Pulling the drip right out of the arm
  Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, la la la la la.

4th Verse

On this European night on the brink
Your cafes, your beer-halls and your bars still stink
And if I die tonight send my body way back home
And if I die tonight send my body way back home
And if I die tonight send my body way back home
And if I die tonight and if I die tonight...
Dumb Europe
Dumb Europe
Dumb Europe
Dumb Europe

This recording is reasonably rare, and it's unlikely anyone you play the
song to will have heard the original anyway, so just use the lyrics
above, or the ones from King Ink, and play the song in whatever way
sounds best to you ;)  Have fun ;)




                            All Albums

             Thanks to Mark Brown for most of the
             lyrics.

        Table of Contents:

        From Burning the Ice

           * Truck Love
           * Stow-a-way
           * Dumb Europe
           * Pleasure Is The Boss

        From Headless Body in Topless Bar

           * I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My
             Condition Was In)

        From Sweat

           * Sad Dark Eyes

From Burning the Ice



     Truck love! Right here!
     Truck love! Right now!
     Bewitched by pure power. That's truck love!
     In the gully of your choice. Truck love!
     Jam-up on a leaping tree. Head on! Head first!
     And God came down and talked to me
     And I dammn nearly wept.
     Tears rolling down the dash! Tears rolling down the
     dash!
     We can't stop the monster rolling
     We can't stop the monster rolling
     We can't stop the monster rolling
     We can't stop the monster rolling
     Rise to power! Rise to power!
     Rise to power! Rise to power!
     You stare bright like gold
     Eye-spot interference all across the fucking road.
     Burn my eyes! Burn my eyes! Baybeeeeee!
     My hands are shaking when I'm touching ya
     My hands are shaking when I'm touching ya
     They keep shaking when I ain't
     They keep shaking when I ain't

     Truck love! Truck love!
     Pit-stop lovers!
     Right now and the now is right!
     This higway is done bent on killing us
     Testing every nerve that we possess between us.
     The face of Christ is leaping from the storm
     The face of Christ is leaping from the storm
     You tend to get religious on these runs.
     Rise to power! Rise to power!
     Rise to power! Rise to power!
     Divine power has gone crawled into this tank
     Every metal muscle flexed and puping at the crank.
     Pumping at my axis. Rendering me sexless.
     Mega-tons of muscle kicking dust across Texas.
     Truck love! Out on the city limits
     Drive straight into the eye of the next town we hit
     Gun it once for the hillbillys
     Just to make them shit.

     Fuck love! This is truck love!
     Fuck love! This is truck love!
     The dolls on the grill are caked in bloody bug guts
     The dolls on the grill are caked in bloody bug guts
     Truck love! Truck love!
     Rise to power! Rise to power!
     The dolls on the grill are caked in bloody bug guts
     The dolls on the grill are caked in bloody bug guts
     Truck love! Truck love!
     There are things burning in the desert
     Rise to power! Rise to power!
     There are things burning in the desert
     Rise to power! Rise to power!
     There are things burning in the desert




     Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
     Hey hey I am the stow-a-way

     My girl turned blue as an iceberg do
     And me I'm totally shipwrecked over her
     Baby baby don't blow away
     Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
     I am the stow-a-way

     This is your captain talking to ya
     This is your captain talking to ya
     This is your captain talking to ya
     This is your captain talking to ya

     Heartache

     Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
     I am the stow-a-way

     My girl turned blue as an iceberg do
     And me I'm totally shipwrecked over her
     Hey baby don't blow away
     Hey hey I am the stow-a-way
     I am the stow-a-way

     This your doctor talking to ya
     This your doctor talking to ya
     This your doctor talking to ya
     This your doctor talking to ya

     Heartache




     On this European night out on the brink
     The cafes and the bars still stink
     The air is much too thick for seeing
     But not thick enough for leaning
     I leave in a catatonic crawl
     And if I die tonight then throw me in
     Some bleak teutonic hole
     Six feet under with a snap-frozen soul
     And really we could all just die of shame
     And really we could all just die of shame
     Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe.

     Oh the Utopian night on the brink
     Mama's face staring up at me from the bottom of the
     sink
     Witness my trail of destruction
     Trying to leave this drinking place
     My feet are magnetised for furniture
     The floor's attracted to my face
     And if I die tonight
     Sell me as some prehistoric bone
     A lump of junk-souvenier for Jap
     To fob off on his friends back home
     The money dance....
     I find it hard to cope with days like this. Pass the
     bottle etcetera
     Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe.

     On this European night out on the brink
     The cafes and the bars still stink
     The air is much too thick for seeing
     But not thick enough for leaning
     I leave in a catatonic crawl
     And if I die tonight then throw me in
     Some bleak teutonic hole
     Six feet under with a snap-frozen soul
     And really we could all just die of shame
     And really we could all just die of shame
     Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe, Dumb Europe.




     They're working us like dogs around here
     'Cause pleasure is the boss
     And I'm the happiest slave alive round here
     'Cause pleasure is the boss
     And nothing is safe that don't stand still
     If it's O.K. with the boss
     I'm gunna walk right up and take it yeah
     If it's O.K. with the boss

     Walk

     What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
     What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me

     What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
     What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me

     What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me
     What's O.K. with the boss is O.K. with me




I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)

     I woke up this morning the sun don't shine in
     I found my broken mind in a brown paper bag but then
     I tred on a cloud I fell eight miles high
     Told my mind I'm gonna ...... sky
     I just dropped in to see what condition my condition
     was in

     I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and I followed it
     in
     I met myself crawling out now, as I came crawling in
     Then I woke up so tired I knew I'd never unwind
     I saw so much, man it broke my mind
     I just dropped in to see what condition my condition
     was in

     Somebody painted April fool in big black letters on a
     dead end sign
     I had my foot on the gas when I left the road and blew
     out my mind
     I made miles out of Memphis and I got no spare
     I made miles straight up downtown where
     I just dropped in to see what condition my condition
     was in





[As sung by Mick Harvey; Nick's live versions deviate from this.]

     I look at you in your sad dark eyes
     And your gypsy face with your spanish grace
     With your words like rhymes and your voice like chimes

     Darling, I want to kiss your burning mouth
     Your sad dark eys and your ghostlike soul
     Darling baby say that you'll be mine

     Put your ring on my finger
     And comb your long red hair
     Put on your sad eyes
     And tell me that you care
     That you'll be mine, you'll be mine
     Until the end of time





Tower Of Song and 500 Miles chords transcribed by Blake

Table of Contents:

From Tribute Albums:

   * Tower Of Song (L. Cohen)
   * Helpless (N. Young)
   * Mack The Knife (K. Wiel)

Only Performed Live
(some with limited offical releases):

   * I Put A Spell On You (S.J. Hawkins)
   * Rye Whiskey
   * Plain Gold Ring
   * Oh, Happy Day (Edwin R. Hawkins)

With Current 93:

   * All The Pretty Little Horsies (Cave/Traditional)
   * PATRIPASSIAN (Cave)

Radio Sessions, Extremely Limted Releases, and Bootlegs:

   * God's Hotel (Cave)
   * What Can I Give You? (Cave)
   * 500 Miles (H. West) (KATP out-take)

***************************************************


Leonard Cohen

[G]Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm[C] crazy for love but I'm not coming on [G]
I'm just[D] paying my rent every[C]day
In the Tower of So[G]ng

I said to Hank Williams: How lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.
But I h[C]ear him coughing all night lon[G]g
A hund[D]red floors above me [C]
In the Tower of So[G]ng

I was born like this, I had no choice.
I was born with the gift of a golden voice.
And twe[C]nty-seven angels from the Great beyon[G]d
They ti[D]ed me to this table right her[C]e
In the Tower of Son[G]g

So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
They don't let a woman kill you, not
In the Tower of Song

Now you can say that I've grown bitter, but of this you may be sure:
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgment coming  But I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song

[Em]I see you standing on the other [D]side
[Em]I don't know how the river [D]got so wide
I lo[C]ved you, baby, way back when[G]
[Em]And all the bridges are burning that we[D] might have crossed
[Em]But I feel so close to everythi[D]ng that we lost
We'll[C] never have to lose it agai[D]n

I[G] bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But You'll be h[C]earing from me, baby. Long after I'm [G]gone
I'll be s[D]peaking to you sweetly from a w[C]indow
In the Tower [G]of Song

Table of Contents

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I Put A Spell On You

I put a (A)spell on you
(D)cause you're (A)mine

Table of Contents

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500 Miles

If you (F#)miss the train I'm (Bb)on
Then you (G#)know that I'll be (E)gone
Lord I'm (G#)500 miles (B)away from (C#)home

For the rest of the song, pretty much follow the same
pattern, I could be missing a chord between '500 miles'
and 'away', but it's pretty much there.

Table of Contents

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title

Chords!!!

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              Return to the Lyrics and Chords page.





           The following are lyrics to Nick Cave songs
           that have not been included on common Album
           and Single releases or on soundtracks. This
           page was developed from Maurice's document
           of "Unpublished Lyrics to Nick Cave Songs".
           From that document:

                Many thanks to Paul Humphrey,
                Robert Schmitz and Carmen Priebe!

                "......" or (?) means we don't
                know that part. Corrections
                welcome!

           Thanks too to Mark Brown for some of the
           Die Haut lyrics.

           Table of Contents:

           From Tribute Albums:

              * Tower Of Song (L. Cohen)
              * Helpless (N. Young)
              * Mack The Knife (K. Wiel)

           Only Performed Live
           (some with limited offical releases):

              * I Put A Spell On You (S.J. Hawkins)
              * Rye Whiskey
              * Plain Gold Ring
              * Oh, Happy Day (Edwin R. Hawkins)
              * Viviane

           With Barry Adamson:

              * The Sweetest Embrace

           With Current 93:

              * All The Pretty Little Horsies
                (Cave/Traditional)
              * PATRIPASSIAN (Cave)

           Radio Sessions, Extremely Limted Releases,
           and Bootlegs:

              * God's Hotel (Cave)
              * What Can I Give You? (Cave)
              * 500 Miles (H. West) (KATP out-take)

Tribute Albums:

Tower Of Song

From I'm Your Fan, a Leonard Cohen tribute album

Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm paying my rent everyday in the Tower of Song

I said to Leonard Cohen: How lonely does it get?
Leonard Cohen hasn't answered me yet
But I can hear him coughing all night long,
A million floors above me in the Tower of Song

I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born like this, with a golden voice
Twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond,
Well they tied me to this table right here in the Tower of Song

You can stick your needles in a voodoo doll
I'm sorry baby, but it don't look like me at all
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
They don't let a woman kill you in the Tower of Song

I've grown bitter, bitter, of this you may be sure:
The rich, the rich have got channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement but it won't be long, but I may be
wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices in the Tower of Song - oh
yeah -
The guitar, the bass, the drums, so nice every hour in the Tower
of Song

I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
But I loved you, baby, way back when
All the bridges are burning that we might have crossed,
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
But I'll never have to lose you again, Tower of Song

I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'm back
They're moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone
I'm speaking to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song

Now you can say that I've grown bitter, of this you can be sure:
The rich have got channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement but it won't take long, I may be
wrong

Table of Contents

Only Performed Live
(some with limited offical releases):

I Put A Spell On You

From Department of Enjoyment, NME compilation cassette; available on some
bootlegs.

I put a spell on you, 'cause you're mine
You'd better stop those things that you're doin'
Oh, honey, I ain't lyin', no

Wow, you better quit it, your messin' around
You better quit it, your foolin' around
I put a spell on you, wow, cause you're mine

It serves you right to suffer
It serves you right to be alone
Oh, you forever live the day I done packed and gone (?)

Oh you better kick it before it kicks you
Oh, you better quit it, it's true
I put a spell on you, wow, cause you're mine, mine, mine

You better quit it, your foolin' around
You better quit it, kick it, .... , oh you're messin' around
I put a spell on you, you, cause you're mine

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Rye Whiskey

Available on French promo CD, Good Songs

A traditional version is also available.

Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds, I know you most of all
You've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold
And Whiskey, you villain, you've been my down-fall
You've cuffed and you've kicked me but I loved you of old

     Oh Whiskey, Rye Whiskey, Whiskey I cried
     If I don't get rye Whiskey I surely will die

Well I go yonder mountain and build me a still
And I send you a gallon for a five dollar bill
Well it's beefcake when I'm hungry, Whiskey when I'm dry
And it's greenbacks when I'm hard off and hell when I die

If the sea were made of Whiskey and I was a duck
I'd swim to the bottom and never come up
Oh, but the sea ain't made of Whiskey and I ain't a duck
So I play Jack Of Diamonds and trust on my luck

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Plain Gold Ring

From Live Seeds

Plain gold ring on her finger she wore
It was where everyone could see
It belonged to someone, but not me
On her hand she wore a plain gold ring

Plain gold ring's got a story to tell
It was one that I knew very well
In my heart it will never be spring
Long as she wears that plain gold ring

When night time comes calling on me
I know why I will never be free
I can't stop these teardrops of mine, oh no
I'm gonna love her till the end of time

Plain gold ring's got but one thing to say
I'm gonna love her till my dying day
In my heart it will never be spring
Long as she wears that plain gold ring

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Oh, Happy Day

Oh happy day, oh happy day
When Jesus washed, oh when He washed
When my Jesus washed, He washed my sins away

Oh happy day
He taught me how to walk, fight and pray, fight and pray
And in rejoicing, in rejoicing every, every day, every day.

Oh happy day, oh happy day;
When my Jesus washed, oh when He washed
When my Jesus washed all the sins away

Oh happy day, yeah.
You see He taught me how to watch, fight and pray fight and pray
And in rejoicing, in rejoicing every day, every day

Oh happy, happy day, oh happy, happy day
Oh it felt so good when Jesus, when Jesus washed,
When my Jesus washed my sins away.

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Viviane

These lyrics were taken from an edition of The Witness, the Official fan
newsletter.

Viviane
I will love you till the last nail has been driven in

Viviane
Till we disappear hand in hand into oblivian (sic)

Oh Viviane
I will love you until the void delivers us from this world we're
living in

Oh oh Viviane
I love you until the ghost of your smile grows faint and
withering

Viviane
You are my heroin, my aspirin, my insulin

Viviane
The winds of change are blowing and I am shivering....

(...the rest (if indeed there is any more) is obscured.)

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With Barry Adamson:

The Sweetest Embrace

From the album Oedipus Schmoedipus by Barry Adamson

Our time is done my love
We've laid it all to waste
One thousand moonlit kisses
can't sweeten this bitter taste
My desire for you is endless
and I'll love you 'till we fall
I just don't want you no more
and that's the sweetest embrace of all

To think we can find happiness
hidden in a kiss
Ah, to think we can find happiness
that's the greatest mistake there is
There is nothing left to cling to babe
There is nothing left to soil
I just don't want you no more
and that's the sweetest embrace of all

Ooohhh where did it begin
When all we did was lose
There's nothin' left to win

So lay your weapons down
they serve no purpose in your hands
And if you wanna hold me
then go ahead and hold me
I won't upset your plans
If it's revenge you want
then take it babe
Or you can walk right out the door
I just don't want you anymore
And that's the sweetest embrace of all

Ooohhh where did it begin
When all we did was lose
There's nothin' left to win

It's over babe
And it really is a shame
We are losers you and me babe
In a rigged and crooked game
My desire for you is endless
And I love you most of all
I just don't want you no more
and that's the sweetest embrace of all

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With Current 93:

All The Pretty Little Horsies

From the Current '93 album All The Pretty Horsies

Hush-a-bye
Don't You cry
Go to sleepy little baby
Go to sleepy little baby
When You wake
You shall have
All the pretty little horsies
All the pretty little horsies

Blacks and bays
Dapples and greys
All the pretty little horsies

Way down yonder
In the meadow
Lies a poor little lamby
Bees and butterflies
Flitting round his eyes
Poor little thing is crying
"Mammy"

Go to sleep
Don't you cry
Rest Your head upon the clover
Rest Your head upon the clover
In Your dreams
You shall ride
While Your Mammy's watching over

Blacks and bays
Dapples and greys
All the pretty little horsies

All the pretty little horsies
All the pretty little horsies
All the pretty little horsies

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PATRIPASSIAN

From the Current '93 album All the Pretty Horsies

The rivers of Babylon flow, and fall, and carry
away...Jesus is alone on earth, not merely with no
one to feel and share His agony, but with no one
even to know of it. Heaven and He are the only ones
to know.

Jesus is in a garden, not of delight, like the first
Adam, who fell and took with him all
mankind, but of agony, where He has saved
Himself and all mankind

He suffers this anguish and abandonment in the
horror of the night.

Jesus will be in agony until the end of the world.
There must be no resting in the meantime...

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Radio Sessions, Extremely Limted Releases, and Bootlegs:

God's Hotel

Available on the Rare On Air benefit CD. An audio sample is available

Everybody got a room
Everybody got a room
Everybody got a room
In God's Hotel.
Everybody got a room.
Well you'll never see a sign hanging on the door
Sayin 'No vacancies anymore'.

Everybody got wings
Everybody got wings
Everybody got wings
In God's Hotel.
Everybody got wings.
You'll never see a sign hanging on the door
Sayin 'At no time may both feet leave the floor'

Everybody got a harp
Everybody got a harp
Everybody got a harp
In God's Hotel.
Everybody got a harp.
You'll never see a sign hanging on the wall
Sayin 'No harps allowed in the hotel at all'.

Everybody got a cloud
Everybody got a cloud
Everybody got a cloud
In God's Hotel.
Everybody got a cloud.
You'll never see a sign hanging on the wall
Sayin 'Smoking and drinking will be thy downfall'.

Everybody hold a hand
Everybody hold a hand
Everybody hold a hand
In God's Hotel.
Everybody hold a hand.
You'll never see a sign hung up above your door
'No visitors allowed in rooms, By law!'

Everybody's halo shines
Everybody's halo shines
Everybody's halo shines
In God's Hotel.
Everybody's halo lookin' fine.
You won't see a sign staring at you from the wall
Sayin 'Lights out! No burnin the midnight oil!'

Everybody got credit
Everybody got credit
Everybody got credit
In God's Hotel.
Everybody got good credit.
You'll never see a sign stuck on the cash-box drawer
Sayin 'Credit tommorow!!' or 'Want credit?!? Haw, haw haw!!'

Everybody is blind
Everybody is blind
Everybody is blind
In God's Hotel.
Everybody is blind.
You'll never see a sign on the front door
'No red skins. No Blacks. And that means you, baw!'

Everybody is deaf
Everybody is deaf
Everybody is deaf
In God's Hotel.
Everybody is deaf.
You'll never find a sign peeling off the bar-room wall
'Though shalt not blaspheme, cuss, holler or bawl'.

Everybody is dumb
Everybody is dumb
Everybody is dumb
In God's Hotel.
Everybody is dumb.
So you'll never see on the visiting-room wall
'Though shalt not blaspheme, cuss, holler or bawl'.

Everybody got Heaven
Everybody got Heaven
Everybody got Heaven
In God's Hotel.
Everybody got Heaven.
So you'll never see scribbled on the bathroom wall
'Let Rosy get ya Heaven, dial 686-844!'

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500 Miles

An audio sample is available

If you miss the train I'm on
Then you know that I'll be gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred
miles
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles

Lord I'm one, Lord I'm two, Lord I'm three, Lord I'm four
Lord I'm 500 miles away from home
500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles,
Lord I'm 500 miles away from home

Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name
Lord I can't go-a-home this-a-way
This-a-way, this-a-way, this-a-way, this-a-way,
Lord I can't go-a-home this-a-way

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What Can I Give You?

From a Frech promo CD given away with Henry's Dream.

All my life I failed to see
One good thing standing in front of me
And the planets gravitate around you
And the stars, the stars surround you
And the angels in heaven adore you
And the saints, the saints all stand and applaud you

     What can I give you?
     What can I give you in return?

The shadow came creeping, a criminal
That you chased, babe, from my life
And sometimes when I'm sleeping I see him shuffle against the
night
Oh, he's waiting, yeah he's waiting to return
And each step I take moves me one step below you
And you must do in order to console me
Help me, help me, help me, baby, reach down and collect me

     What can I give you?
     What can I give you in return?

Galaxies collide; they shower down around you
And I searched, I stumbled and then I found you
In your robe, in your crown, reaching low, babe
Reaching low down to the ground

     What can I give you?
     What can I give you in return?

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              Return to the Lyrics and Chords page.





Faraway, So Close chords transcribed by NP Mack the Knife and
Time Jesum... chords transcribed by Black

Table of Contents:

   * Faraway, So Close
   * Mack The Knife
   * Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum

***************************************************



C/a
C                      a                     C
Empty out your pockets toss the lot upon the floor
all those treasures my friends...
F                             G
so kiss close all your wounds and call living life a day
C
for the planets...
F     G     F          G                C
so faraway, so faraway and yet so close




                 C6             Dm7
          See the shark with teeth like razors
                    Dm       G7      C6
          And he wears them in his face
                  C9   C        Dm7
          And Macheath has got a knife
                      C6
          But not in such an obvious place

          Now see the shark, how red his fins are
          As he slashes at his prey
          Mack the Knife wears fancy gloves
          Which gives a minimum away




This is actually violin led, but if you were to play it on the guitar
here's how it would be.  This is just a basic idea, there is a lot more
going on in this song.

Rhythm guitar over the violin is just-- F# --- B changing to B on the
high points of the riff

    Riff 1.
G-----6--6-4-2-4-6--6-----7-7-6-4-4---7-6-4-2-4
D---4-------------------------------------------------
You play this a couple of times then-

    Riff 2
E---9---9-7-5-7-9-9----10-10-9-7-7----10-9-7-5-7
B-7-----------------------------------------------------
Then you  play this as necessary making
slight alterations here and there

          F                                           B
          We were called to the forest, and we went down.
                                            F
          A wind wind blew warm and eloquent,
          F
          We were searching for the secrets of the universe,
                                    B
          we rounded up demons and forced them
                                      F
          to tell us what it all meant.

  Riff 2 repeat as necessary

  Verse same as first

  Riff 2 again but end with
        E---15-15-14-12-14-

  Verse

  Riff 2

 outro
    Riff 3
        E--5-7-9-10-12-14-15-17Ó   repeat a few times

    Riff 4
        E--17-15-14-15-14-12-10-9-10-9-10-9-7-5




                     Soundtrack Contributions

           The following are lyrics to Nick Cave songs
           that have been contributed to soundtracks
           of various films and a television series.
           This page was developed from Maurice's
           document of "Unpublished Lyrics to Nick
           Cave Songs". From that document:

                Many thanks to Paul Humphrey,
                Robert Schmitz and Carmen Priebe!

           Table of Contents:

              * Mojo (Cave)
                Used in Mojo

              * The Big Hurt (Wayne Shanklin)
                Used in Mojo

              * Mack The Knife (Weill)
                Used in September Songs: The Music of
                Kurt Weill

              * There Is A Light (Cave)
                Used in Batman Forever

              * Faraway, So Close! (Cave)
                Used in In weiter Ferne, so nah! (aka
                Faraway, So Close!)

              * Mama's Boy
                Used in Johnny Suede

              * (I'll Love You) Till the End of the
                World (Cave)
                Used in Bis ans Ende der Welt (aka
                Until the End of the World)

           Songs used in Television Show soundtracks:

              * Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non
                Riverentum (Cave)
                Used in Songs in the Key of X: The
                X-Files Soundtrack

              * Red Right Hand
                Used in Songs in the Key of X: The
                X-Files Soundtrack.

           Other songs used in films:

              * Christina the Astonishing
                Used in Jonas in the Desert

              * From Her To Eternity
                Used in Der Himmel Über Berlin (aka
                Wings of Desire), and The Freshman

              * Red Right Hand
                Used in Box Of Moonlight, Scream, and
                Dumb and Dumber. A remixed version was
                used in Scream 2

              * Cassiel's Song
                Used in In weiter Ferne, so nah! (aka
                Faraway, So Close!)

              * Lament
                Used in Gas Food Lodging



Nick performed this for the Italian film Mojo, and it is
available on a CD called Soho.

     They call him Joe The Dragon
     He's on the water wagon
     He's got that look of mourning and concentration on his
     face
     Carries a 38 special
     A six inch barrel
     The saddest damn man in the entire human race

          Mojo (4x)

     Joe's mind is full of motors(?)
     He is always taking photos
     Of the remains of his beserk little twists
     Yes ....(?) polaroids
     Of his little golden boys
     18 carat corpses with wired wrists

          Mojo (4x)

          Blood thicker than water will flow
          The fire will eat the streets of old Soho
          Daddy's out the back with little Joe
          With his vaseline and his violin and bow -
          Mojo

     Down on Compton(?) Road
     Joe ain't never going home
     Till he finds what he is searching for
     Well mad Mathildas in his jacket
     They crank and make him record(?)
     As he does and make his funny little laugh and dance
     upon your floor

          Mojo (repeat)




Nick performed this for the Italian film Mojo, along with Gallon
Drunk and it is available on a CD called Soho.

     Now it begins, now that you're gone
     Needles and pins, twilight till dawn
     Watching that clock till you return
     And lighting that torch and watching it burn

     Now it begins, day after day
     This is my life ticking away
     Waiting to hear footsteps that say:
     Love will appear and this time will stay

     Each time you go
     I try to pretend
     It's over at last
     This time the big hurt will end

     Now it begins, now that you're gone
     Needles and pins, twilight till dawn
     So if you don't come back again
     I wonder when, oh when will it end?
     The big hurt (repeat)




Nick covered this in a segment in September Songs: A Tribute to
Kurt Weill

     See the shark with teeth like razors
     And he wears them in his face
     And Macheath has got a knife
     But not in such an obvious place

     Now see the shark, how red his fins are
     As he slashes at his prey
     Mack the Knife wears fancy gloves
     Which gives a minimum away

     By the Thames' turbid waters
     Men abruptly tumble down
     Well is it plague, or is it cholera
     Or because Macky's in town?

     And the child bride, in her nighty
     Whose assailant's still at large
     Violated in her slumbers
     Macky how much did you charge?

     In the ghastly fire in Soho
     Seven children had a go
     In the crowd stands Mack the Knife
     But he isn't asked and he don't know

     In the crowd stands Mack The Knife
     But he ain't asked and he don't know




From the Batman Forever soundtrack. An audio sample is available.

     Hey there sugar where ya gunna go?
     I'm going downtown Daddy-O
     What ya gunna do when you get there, girl?
     I'm gunna get messed up in a God-Shaped Hole
     Hey Mr Hophead, what ya gunna do?
     I'm going downtown for some bad ju-ju
     Ya going downtown too, Mr. Gigolo?
     Damn right I am, Daddy-O...

     There is a light thay shines over this city tonight
     There is a light that shines over this city tonight
     Let it shine

     O Mr High Roller where ya gunna go?
     Where the real high-rollin rollers roll real dough
     Hey Mr Killer Man what ya gunna do?
     Me and Mr Death are going downtown too
     Ain't there one God Fearing citizen about?
     They're all holed up and they ain't comin' out
     What about Mr. Preacher to forgive us our sins?
     Not that carrion crow with blood on his chin
     And Mr. Politician can't he lend a hand?
     He's too busy sucking on the guts of this town
     And what about God and this Armageddon?
     He's all blissed out, man, up in Heaven
     Ain't there nowhere to run, ain't there nowhere to go?
     (repeat line 3 more times)
     Yeah, look to the sky, Daddy-O

     There is a light that shines over this city tonight
     There is a light that shines over this city tonight
     Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine

     What are the little kids gunna do, man?
     The little kids are all standing around
     What are the kids doing, do you know?
     They are looking to the Sky, Daddy-O.




Hidden track on the X-Files TV series soundtrack. An audio sample
is available.

     We were called to the forest,
     and we went down.
     A wind wind blew warm and eloquent,

     We were searching for the secrets of the universe,
     we rounded up demons and forced them
     to tell us what it all meant.

     We tied them to trees,
     and broke them down, one by one.
     On a scrap of paper they wrote these words:

     (And as we read them, the sun broke,
     through the trees.)

     "Dread the passage of Jesus, for he will not return."

     Then we headed back to our world,
     and left the forest behind,
     our hearts singing with all the knowledge of love.

     But somewhere, somehow, we lost the message,
     along the way,
     and when we got home, we bought ourselves a house.

     And we bought a car that we did not use,
     And we bought a cage,and two singing birds.
     And at night we'd sit and listen to the canary song.

     For we'd both run right out of words.

     Now the stars they are all angled wrong,
     and the sun and the moon refuse to burn.

     But I remember a message,
     in a demon's hand,

     "Dread the passage of Jesus, for he does not return."
     ...he does not return
     ...he does not return




From: www.webstation.com/mahler/
From the soundtrack to th film of the same name.

     Empty out your pockets, toss the lot upon the floor.
     All those treasures, my friend,
     you don't need them anymore.
     Your days are all through dying,
     they gave all their ghosts away,
     so kiss close all your wounds and call living life a
     day.
     For the planets gravitate around you,
     and the stars shower down around you,
     and the angels in heaven adore you,
     and the saints all stand and applaud you.
     so faraway,
     so faraway and yet so close.

     Say farewell to the passing of the years,
     though all your sweet goodbyes will fall upon deaf
     ears.
     Kiss so softly the mouths of the ones you love,
     beneath the September moon and the heavens above.
     And the world will turn without you,
     and history will soon forget about you,
     but the heavens they will reward you,
     and the saints will be there to escort you.
     So faraway,
     so faraway and yet so close.

     Do not grieve at the passing of mortality,
     for life's but a thing of terrible gravity.
     And the planets gravitate around you,
     and the stars shall dance about you,
     and the angels in heaven adore you,
     and the saints all stand and applaud you.
     So faraway,
     so faraway and yet so close.




Thanks to Patrick Breen and HPEllison
Used in Johnny Suede

     I was born in a motel room
     the night my Daddy lost his job
     Just after one, he pulled a gun
     and blew the brains out of some poor slob

     They call me mamma...
     They call me mamma...
     They call me mamma's boy
     But I don't care

     I'll be a mamma...
     I'll be a mamma...
     I'll be a mamma's boy
     since Daddy got...the electric chair.




From the soundtrack of Until the End of the World. An audio
sample is available.

     It was a miracle I even got outta Longwood alive,
     This town fulla men with big mouths and no guts,
     I mean, if you can just picture it,
     The whole third floor of the hotel gutted by the blast,
     And the street below showered in shards of broken
     glass,
     And all the drunks pourin' outta the dance halls,
     Starin' up at the smoke and the flames,
     And the blind pencil seller wavin' his stick,
     Shoutin' for his dog that lay dead on the side of the
     road,
     And me, if you can believe this, at the wheel of the
     car
     Closin my eyes and actually prayin',
     Not to God above, but to you, sayin',

          Help me girl, help me girl
          I'll love you till the end of the world
          With your eyes black as coal and your long
          dark curls

     Some things we plan, we sit and we invent and we plot
     and cook up,
     Others are works of inspiration, of poetry,
     And it was this genius hand that pushed me up the hotel
     stairs
     To say my last goodbye,
     To her hair white as snow, and her pale blue eyes,
     Sayin "I gotta go, I gotta go, the bomb and the bread
     basket
     Are ready to blow,"
     In this town of men with big mouths and no guts,
     The pencil seller's dog spooked by the explosion
     And leapin' under my wheels as I careered outta
     Longwood on my way to you,
     Waitin in your dress, in your dress of blue

          I said thank you girl, thank you girl
          I'll love you till the end of the world
          With your eyes black as coal and your long
          dark curls

     And with the horses prancin' through the fields,
     With my knife in my jeans and the rain on the shield,
     I sang a song for the glory of the beauty of you,
     Waitin for me in your dress of blue

          Thank you girl, thank you girl
          I'll love you till the end of the world
          With your eyes black as coal and your long
          dark curls





Many of Nick's songs have their basis in traditional songs.
Listed here are the traditional lyrics to songs you may have
thought were Nick's creations. Most of these are originally
available at the Digital Tradition Folk Song Database at
http://www.deltablues.com Thanks to Erik for the info!

Table of Contents:

   * Rye Whiskey
   * Black Betty
   * Young Hunting - Traditional version of Henry Lee
   * Down in a Willow Garden - Traditional version of The Willow
     Garden
   * Katy Cruel - Traditional version of When I First Came To
     Town
   * Oxford Tragedy - Traditional version of Knoxville Girl
   * How Long, How Long Blues - Traditional song similar to The
     Train Song
   * Mister Frog Went A-Courting - Traditional version of King
     Kong Kittchee Ki-Mi-O
   * Banks of the Roses - Traditional song similar to Where the
     Wild Roses Grow
   * All The Pretty Little Horsies - Traditional song that Nick
     used for the track he wrote on the Current 93 album All The
     Pretty Little Horses
   * Stagalee - Three tradional versions of the harsh track on
     Murder Ballads
   * Peace In the Valley - Lyrics by T. Dorsey (as sung by J.
     Cash on "At Folsom Prison and San Quentin"). This is a
     likely inspiration for Nick's New Morning
   * Wade In The Water - Traditional lyrics of a song Nick has
     used live.
   * Oh, Happy Day - Lyrics of a song Nick has used live.
   * Cindy - Lyrics of a song Nick has used live.
   * Love Henry - Original version of Henry Lee
   * Tupelo Blues - A likely inspiration for Nick's Tupelo
   * I Rowed a Little Boat - A song similar to My Little Boat Is
     Empty



Nick's version is also available.

     I'll eat when I'm hungry,
     I'll drink when l'm dry,
     If the hard times don't kill me,
     I'll lay down and die.

     Rye whisky, rye whisky,
     Rye whisky, I cry,
     If you don't give me rye whisky,
     I surely will die.

     I'll tune up my fiddle,
     And I'll rosin my bow,
     I'll make myself welcome,
     Wherever I go.

     Beefsteak when I'm hungry,
     Red liquor when I'm dry,
     Greenbacks when I'm hard up,
     And religion when I die.

     They say I drink whisky,
     My money's my own;
     All them that don't like me,
     Can leave me alone.

     Sometimes I drink whisky,
     Sometimes I drink rum,
     Sometimes I drink brandy,
     At other times none.

     But if I get boozy,
     My whisky's my own,
     And them that don't like me,
     Can leave me alone.

     Jack o' diamonds, jack o' diamonds,
     I know you of old,
     You've robbed my poor pockets
     Of silver and gold.

     Oh, whisky, you villain,
     You've been my downfall,
     You've kicked me, you've cuffed me,
     But I love you for all.

     If the ocean was whisky,
     And I was a duck,
     I'd dive to the bottom
     To get one sweet suck.

     But the ocean ain't whisky
     And I ain't a duck,
     So we'll round up the cattle
     And then we'll get drunk.

     My foot's in my stirrup,
     My bridle's in my hand,
     l'm leaving sweet Lillie,
     The fairest in the land.
     Her parents don't like me,
     They say l'm too poor;
     They say I'm unworthy
     To enter her door.

     Sweet milk when l'm hungry,
     Rye whisky when l'm dry,
     If a tree don't fall on me,
     I'll live till I die.

     I'll buy my own whisky,
     I'll make my own stew,
     If I get drunk, madam,
     It's nothing to you.

     I'll drink my own whisky,
     I'll drink my own wine,
     Some ten thousand bottles
     I've killed in my time.

     I've no wife to quarrel
     No babies to bawl;
     The best way of living
     Is no wife at all.

     Way up on Clinch Mountain
     I wander alone,
     l'm as drunk as the devil,
     Oh, let me alone.

     You may boast of your knowledge
     An' brag of your sense,
     'Twill all be forgotten
     A hundred years hence.

     (Negro Variant)
     In my little log cabin,
     Ever since I been born,
     Dere ain't been no nothin'
     'Cept dat hard salt, parched corn.

     But I know whar's a henhouse,
     De turkey he charve;
     An, if ol' Massa don' kill me
     I cain't never starve.

     (Variant chorus)
     Rye whisky, rye whisky,
     You're no friend to me;
     You killed my poor daddy,
     Goddamn you, try me.

     From American Ballads and Folk Songs, Lomax
     Note: One of the more exhaustive texts.




Nick's version is also available.

     Oh, Lawd, Black Betty,
     Bam-ba-lamb,
     Oh, Lawd, Black Betty,
     Bamhalamb,
     Black Betty had a baby,
     Bambalamb,
     Black Betty had a baby,
     Bambalamb.

     Oh, Lawd, Black Betty,
     Bam-ba-lamb,
     Oh, Lawd, Black Betty,
     Bam-ba-lamb,
     It de cap'n's baby,
     Bam-ba-lamb,
     It de cap'n's baby,
     Bam-ba-lamb.
     Oh, Lawd, Black Betty,
     Bambalamb,
     Oh, Lawd, Black Betty,
     Bambalamb,
     But she didn' feed de baby,
     Bambalamb,
     But she didn' feed de baby,
     Bambalamb.

     Oh, Lawd, Black Betty,
     Bamhalamb,
     Oh, Lawd, Black Betty,
     Bambalamb,
     Black Betty, where'd you come from?
     Bambalamb,
     Black Betty, where'd you come from?
     Bambalamb.

     From American Ballads and Folk Songs, Lomax
     Note: Black Betty was the whip used in some southern
     prisons.




Traditional version of Henry Lee. Nick's version is also
available.

     It happened on one evening late,
     As the maid was going to bed,
     She heard a sound, a beautiful sound,
     That made her heart feel glad.

     She thought it was her brother John,
     Returning from the cane;
     But who should it be but Lord Henry,
     Just from his wild hunting.

     "Get down, get down, Lord Henry,
     And stay all night with me;
     For the very best lodging in Mulveren Town,
     The best I'll give to thee."

     "I won't get down, I shan't get down,
     To stay all night with you;
     For there's a prettier girl in the merry green lands,
     That I love much better than you."

     As he leaned o'er his milk-white steed
     And kisses gave her three,
     She held up a knife in her right hand
     And pierced him heartily.

     "O live, O live, Lord Henry,
     Half an hour or more;
     For the very best doctors in Mulveren Town,
     You'll soon be in their care."

     "O live, O live, how can I live,
     How can I live you see,
     When l can feel my own heart's blood,
     Come trinkling o'er my knee?"

     She called her waiting maids unto her
     To view his body so fair,
     Saying, "Of all this finery you see around here,
     The finest you shall wear."

     Some took him by his curly locks,
     Some by his hands and feet,
     And threw him in the cold, dark well,
     Which was both cold and deep

     "Lie there, lie there, Lord Henry,
     Till the flesh rots off your bones!
     That prettier girl in the merry green lands,
     Shall mourn for your return."

     There was a pretty parrot bird,
     Sitting high upon a limb,
     Saying, "You murdered Lord Henry,
     And in the well threw him."

     "Come down, come down, my pretty parrot bird,
     And sit on my right knee;
     Your cage shall be the finest gold,
     And the door of ivory."

     "I won't come down, I shan't come down,
     To sit on your right knee;
     For you have murdered Lord Henry,
     And soon you'd murder me"

     "I wish I had my bended bow,
     My arrow and my string;
     I'd pierce a dart so close your heart,
     Those notes no more you'd sing."

     "O if you had your bended bow,
     Your arrow and your string,
     I'd take my flight to the merry green lands
     And tell what I'd seen."

     Printed in Folk-songs of the South




Traditional version of The Willow Garden. Nick's version is also
available.

     Down in a willow garden
     Where me and my love did meet,
     'Twas there we sat a courting
     My love dropped off to sleep.

     I had a bottle of the Burglar's wine
     Which my true love did not know,
     And so I poisoned that dear little girl
     Down under the bank below.

     I stobbed her with a dagger,
     Which was a bloody knife,
     I threw her in the river,
     Which was a dreadful sight.

     My father often told me
     That money would set me free,
     If I would murder that dear little girl
     Whose name was Rose Connelly.

     And now he sits in his own cottage door,
     a wiping his weeping eye,
     And now he waits for his own dear son,
     Upon the scaffold high.

     My race is run beneath the sun,
     Lo, hell's now waiting for me,
     For I have murdered that dear little girl
     Whose name was Rose Connelly.

     From Folk Song USA, Lomax
     Note: Tune is variant on Rosin the Beau




Traditional version of When I First Came To Town. Nick's version
is also available.

     When I first came to town
     They called me the roving jewel
     Now they've changed their tune
     They call me Katy Cruel
     Oh diddle day, oh diddle lie o day

     Oh that I was where I would be
     Then I would be where I am not
     Here I am where I must be
     Go where I would, I can not
     Oh diddle day, oh diddle lie o day

     When I first came to town
     They brought me the bottles plenty
     Now they've changed their tune
     They bring me the bottles empty
     Oh diddle day, oh diddle lie o day

     CHORUS

     I know who I love
     And I know who does love me
     I know where I'm going
     And I know whose going with me
     Oh diddle day, oh diddle lie o day

     CHORUS

     Down the road I go
     And through the boggy mire
     Straight way cross the field
     And to my heart's desire
     Oh, diddle day, oh, diddle lie o day

     CHORUS




Traditional version of Knoxville Girl. Nick's version is also
available.

From English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Sharp.
Collected from Mary Wilson and Mrs. Townley, Kentucky, 1917

     Once there was a little tailor boy
     About sixteen years of age;
     My father hired me to a miller
     That I might learn the trade.

     I fell in love with a Knoxville girl,
     Her name was Flora Dean.
     Her rosy cheeks, her curly hair,
     I really did admire.

     Her father he persuaded me
     To take Flora for a wife;
     The devil he persuaded me
     To take Flora's life.

     Up stepped her mother so bold and gay,
     So boldly she did stand;
     Johnny dear, go marry her
     And take her off my hands.

     I went unto her father's house
     About nine o'clock at night,
     A-asking her to take a walk
     To do some prively talk.

     We had not got so very far
     Till looking around and around,
     He stooping down picked up a stick
     And knocks little Flora down.

     She fell upon her bended knees,
     For mercy she did cry:
     O Johnny dear, don't murder me,
     For I'm not fit to die.

     I took her by her lily-white hands
     A-slung her around and around;
     I drug her off to the river-side,
     And plunged her in to drown.

     I returned back to my miller's house
     About nine o'clock at night,
     But little did my miller know
     What I had been about.

     The miller turned around and about,
     Said:" Johnny, what blooded your clothes?"
     Me being so apt to take a hint:
     By bleeding at the nose.

     About nine or ten days after that,
     Little Flora she was found
     A-floating down by her father's house
     Who lived in Knoxville town.




Leroy Carr

A traditional song which was a likely inspiration for The Train
Song.

     How long, how long, has that evenin' train been gone?
     How long, how long, baby how long.

     Heard the whistle blowin', couldn't see the train
     Way down in my heart I had an achin' pain.
     How long, How long, how long.

     If I could holler like a mountain jack
     I'd go up on the mountain and call my baby back.

     I went up on the mountain, looked as far as I could see
     The man had my woman and the blues had poor me.

     I can see the green grass growin' on the hill
     But I ain't seen the green grass on a dollar bill.

     I'm goin' down to Georgia, been up in Tennessee
     So look me over baby, last you'll see of me.

     The brook runs into the river, river runs into the sea
     If I don't run into my baby, a train is goin' to run
     into me.




A traditional song which was a likely insiration for King Kong
Kittchee Ki-Mi-O.

     Mister frog went a-courting and he did ride
     Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm
     Mister frog went a-courting and he did ride
     A sword and pistol by his side
     Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm.

     He went down to Missy Mousie's door
     Where he had often been before.

     He said, "Missy Mouse, are you within?"
     "Yes kind sir, I sit and spin."

     He took Missy Mouse upon his knee
     And said "Missy Mouse, will you marry me?"

     "Without my Uncle Rat's consent"
     "I wouldn't marry the pres-I-dent."

     Uncle Rat laughed and shook his fat sides,
     To think his niece would be a bride.

     When Uncle Rat gave his consent
     The weasel wrote the publishment.

     Where will the wedding supper be?
     Way down yonder in a holler tree.

     What will the wedding supper be?
     Two green beans and a black-eyed pea.

     The first guest in was a bumblebee
     He danced a jig with a crook-backed flea.

     The owl did hoot, the birds they sang
     And through the woods the music rang.

     They all went sailing 'cross the lake
     And got swallered up by a big black snake

     There's bread and cheese upon the shelf
     If you want any more you can sing it yourself.




A traditional song which was a likely inspiration for Where The
Wild Roses Grow. Nick's song is also available.

     When I was a wee thing, I heard my mother say
     That I was meant for rambling and would easy go astray
     And before that I would work, I would rather sport and
     play
     With my Johnny on the banks of red roses

     On the banks of red roses, my love and I sat down
     He took out his tuning box to play his love a tune
     In the middle of the tune, his love got up and cried
     Oh Johnny, lovely Johnny, would you leave me?

     So they walked and they talked until they came upon a
     cave
     Where the night before her darling had spent digging on
     her grave
     Aye, the night before her darling had spent digging on
     her grave
     On the bonnie, bonnie banks of red roses

     Oh no, oh no, cried she, that grave's not meant for me
     Yes, oh yes, my darling, that your bridal bed shall be
     Yes, oh yes, my darling, that your bridal bed shall be
     And he's made her to lie down on red roses

     And all on his way homeward, his heart was filled with
     fear
     Every maid he came upon, he thought it was his dear
     Yes, every maid he came upon, he thought it was his
     dear
     Who he made to lie down on red roses




Traditional song that Nick used for the track he wrote on the
Current 93 album All The Pretty Little Horsies. Nick's version is
also available.

     Hushaby, don' you cry
     Go to sleepy little baby

     When you awake you shall have cake
     And all the pretty little horses.
     Blacks and Bays, Dapples and Grays
     Coach, and a six a little horses.

     So hushaby, etc.

     Way down yonda', down in the medder
     There's a poor little lambie.
     Bees an' the butterflies peckin' out his eyes
     Poor lambie cried fo' his mammy.

     But hushaby, etc.




Three traditional versions of the song from Murder Ballads.
Nick's version is also available. Further details (and the actual
book Nick edited from) are also available.

     Stagolee

     Bad man Stagalee when he bad,
     He bad wid a gun
     Stagalee, Stagalee --- you must-a been a sinner
     Ev'ry- Christmas eve they give Stagalee a dinner
     Bad man Stagalee, when he bad
     He bad wid a gun.

     Don't you remember you remember
     One dark stormy night
     Stagalee and Bill O. Lion
     Dey had dat noble fight.

     Bill O. Lion tole Stagalee
     Please don't take my life
     I got three little children
     And a dear lil' lovin'wife

     Stagalee told Billy O. Lion
     I don't care for your three lil' children
     Or even your lovin' wife
     You stole mah Stetson hat
     And I'm goin to take yo'life

     Stagalee pulled out his forty-four
     It went boom boom boom
     It wasn't long' fore Bill O. Lion
     WVere layin'on de flo'

     Stagalee's woman she went to her boss
     Said, "Please give me some change.
     Dey got my baby in de station house
     An'mah business mus'be'ranged. "

     Stagalee asked his woman
     "How much change has you got?"
     She run her han'in her stocking feet
     And pulled out a hundred spot.
     She had to get mo'money.

     From Southern Folk Ballads, McNeill Collected from Vera
     Hall, AL 1947

     Stagolee

     Stagolee was a bad man,
     Ev'rybody knows.
     Spent one hundred dollars
     Just to buy him a suit of dothes.
          He was a bad man
          That mean old Stagolee

     Stagolee shot Billy de Lyons
     What do you think about that?
     Shot him down in cold blood
     Because he stole his Stetson hat;
          He was a bad man
          That mean old Stagolee

     Billy de Lyons said, Stagolee
     Please don't take my life
     I've got two little babes
     And a darling, loving wife;
          You are a bad man
          You mean old Stagolee.

     What do I care about your two little babes,
     Your darling loving wife?,
     You done stole my Stetson hat
     I'm bound to take your life;
          He was a bad man,
          That mean old Stagolee.

     The judge said, Stagolee,
     What you doing in here?,
     You done shot Mr. Billy de Lyons,
     You going to die in the electric chair;
          He was a bad man
          That mean old Stagolee.

     Twelve o'clock they killed him
     Head reached up high
     Last thing that poor boy said,
     "My six-shooter never lied."
          He was a bad man,
          That mean old Stagolee.

     Stagolee

     chorus: Stagolee, Stagolee, he's the meanest man in
     town
     When that boy starts gamblin', better lay your money
     down
     Down in New Orleans where they got that Lyon's Club
     Every step you step you're steppin' in Billy de Lyon's
     blood

     I remember one September, on a cold and stormy night
     Billy de Lyon and Stagolee, Lord, they had a great big
     fight
     Billy shot a seven, and Stack he said he'd pass
     Stack said to Billy de Lyon, "Brother,
     You done shot your last"

     The woman asked the sheriff, said "How can this be?
     You got all them bad men, but you can't get Stagolee"
     Deputies took their badges and they laid them on the
     shelf
     "If you want to get that bad man, you get him by
     yourself"

     Now send for the policemen, a hundred thousand come
     Loaded down with rifles and a great big Gatling gun
     On Friday we condemned him, the judge he lowered his
     head
     On Saturday we hanged him, I was glad to see him dead




Erik wrote: "The theme is similar to the Nick's song New Morning.
Note also that the line 'There'll be no sadness, no sorrow' also
is in New Morning. Finally, the bright day versus black night
antithesis is also the same.

     Well, I'm tired and so weary but I must go along,
     Till the Lord comes and calls, calls me away, oh, yes,
     And the mornin's so bright and the lamb is the light,
     And the night, night is as black as the sea, oh, yes.

     CHORUS

     There will be peace in the valley for me, some day,
     There will be peace in the valley for me, dear Lord, I
     pray.
     There'll be no sadness, no sorrow, no trouble I see,
     There will be peace in the valley for me.

     The bear will be gentle and the wolf will be tame,
     And the lion shall lie down with the lamb, that's what
     it
     says, And the beasts from the wild will be led by a
     child,
     And I will be changed, changed from this creature that
     I am, oh, yes.

     CHORUS




Printed in J. Silverman, American History Songbook. Nick has sung
his version of this song live.

     (Chorus)
     Wade in the water.
     Wade in the water, children.
     Wade in the water.
     God's gonna trouble the water.

     Jordon's water is chilly and cold.
     God's gonna trouble the water.
     It chills the body, but not the soul.
     God's gonna trouble the water.

     If you get there before I do.
     God's gonna trouble the water.
     Tell all of my friends I'm coming too.
     God's gonna trouble the water.




Written by Edwin R. Hawkins
Nick has performed a version of this song live (combined with
Deanna). He also sung it on The Road to God Knows Where.

     Oh happy day, oh happy day; When Jesus washed, oh when
     He washed
     When my Jesus washed, He washed my sins away; Oh happy
     day.
     He taught me how to walk, fight and pray, fight and
     pray
     And in rejoicing, in rejoicing every, every day, every
     day.

     Oh happy day, oh happy day; When my Jesus washed, oh
     when He washed
     When my Jesus washed all the sins away Oh happy day,
     yeah.
     You see He taught me how to watch, fight and pray fight
     and pray
     And in rejoicing, in rejoicing every day, every day

     Oh happy, happy day, oh happy, happy day
     Oh it felt so good when Jesus, when Jesus washed,
     When my Jesus washed my sins away.




Words and music by Kaye - Weisman - Fuller

"The Bad Seeds performed Cindy regularly in their live sets in
1990,and indeed on a TV appearance as well. I have a version of
Elvis Presly doing this song, but I think it's a traditional,
also known as 'I Wish I Was An Apple', or as 'Sydney'. I think
The Bad Seeds often sang 'Come on home, Sydney Cindy' -Maurice

     Wish I was an apple dangling from a tree
     Every time you'd pass me by you'd take a bite of me
     I wish I was a bluebird I'd never fly away
     I'd sit up on your shoulder baby and sing to you all
     day

     Come on home Cindy Cindy, Come on home Cindy Cindy
     Come on home Cindy Cindy, Come on home to me

     I wrote it in a letter, carved it on a tree
     Told it to a honeycomb, told it to a bee
     Told them that I love you, they all know its true
     Say it till the cows come home until it gets to you

     Come on home Cindy Cindy, Come on home Cindy Cindy
     Come on home Cindy Cindy, Come on home to me

     Need you in the morning to start the coffee pot
     Need you in the afternoon to fan me when I'm hot
     Need you in the evening when supper time is through
     What I'm really tryin' to say is I can't get enough of
     you

     Come on home Cindy Cindy, Come on home Cindy Cindy
     Come on home Cindy Cindy, Come on home to me

     If I were a musician I'd harp on just one thing
     You should never play my harp the way you pluck a
     string
     If only you would love me say it and tell me so
     I need two charms about me baby to have the whole world
     know

     Come on home Cindy Cindy, Come on home Cindy Cindy
     Come on home Cindy Cindy, Come on home to me

     Come on home Cindy Cindy, Come on home Cindy Cindy
     Come on home Cindy Cindy, Come on home to me




Words and Music by Bob Dylan (1993 Special Rider Music)

Original version of Henry Lee. Nick's version is also available.

     "Get down, get down, Love Henry," she cried,
     "And stay all night with me.
     I have gold chains, and the finest I have
     I'll apply them all to thee."

     "I can't get down and I shan't get down,
     Or stay all night with thee.
     Some pretty little girl in Cornersville
     I love far better than thee."

     He laid his head on a pillow of down.
     Kisses she gave him three.
     With a penny knife that she held in her hand
     She murdered mortal he.

     "Get well, get well, Love Henry, " she cried,
     "Get well, get well," said she.
     "Oh don't you see my own heart's blood
     Come flowin' down so free?"

     She took him by his long yellow hair,
     And also by his feet.
     She plunged him into well water, where
     It runs both cold and deep.

     "Lie there, lie there, Love Henry," she cried,
     "Til the flesh rots off your bones.
     Some pretty little girl in Cornersville
     Will mourn for your return."

     "Hush up, hush up, my parrot," she cried,
     "Don't tell no news on me,
     Or these costly beads around my neck,
     I'll apply them all to thee.

     "Fly down, fly down, pretty parrot," she cried,
     "And light on my right knee.
     The doors to your cage shall be decked with gold
     And hung on a willow tree."

     "I won't fly down, I can't fly down
     And light on your right knee.
     A girl who would murder her own true love
     Would kill a little bird like me."




(John Lee Hooker 1959)

A song which was a likely inspiration for Tupelo. Nick's song
is also available.

Tupelo Blues - John Lee Hooker (3:23) (from the album The Country
Blues Of John Lee Hooker, Riverside 1959). Recorded several more
times, issued as Vee Jay single "Tupelo (Backwater Blues) / Dusty
Road", June 1960; also on 1962 Vee Jay album "The Folklore of
John Lee Hooker" as "Tupelo". Also issued a live recording from
Newport Folk Festival in the early 60s.

     Did ya read about the flood?
     Happened long time ago,
     In Tupelo, Mississippi.
     There were thousands o' lives,
     Destroyed.

     It rained, it rained,
     Both night and day.
     The poor people was worried.
     Didn't have no place to go.
     Could hear may people, cryin' "Lord!"
     Have mercy!"
     'Cause you're the only one,
     That we can turn to"
     Happened a long time ago.
     A little town,
     Way back in Mississippi,
     In Tupelo

     Hm-mm, Hm-mm, Hm-mm-mm,
     Hm-mm, Hm-mm, Hm-mm-mm,
     Hm- mm, Hm-mm-mm,
     Hm-mm, Hm-mm, Hm-mm-mm,

     There was women, and there was children,
     They were screamin' an' cryin',
     Cryin', "Lord, have mercy!
     You're the only one now, that we can turn to."

     Way back down in Mississippi, a little country town.
     I know ya read about it,
     'Cause I'll never forget it.
     The mighty flood in Tupelo, Mississippi.
     Been years ago.

     Hm-mm, Hm-mm Hm-mm-mm,
     Oh-hoh, Oh- hoh Oh-oh-oh
     Hm-mm-mm
     Oh-hmm, Lord, have mercy!
     Wasn't that a mighty time? Tupelo's gone.




John Lee Hooker - Vocal, Acoustic Guitar (Orpheum Music, 1959)

A traditional song similar to My Little Boat Is Empty. Nick's
song is also available.

     You know I rowed a little boat,
     five miles 'cross the pond
     You know I rowed a little boat,
     'bout five miles 'cross the pond
     I throwed my things in the little boat,
     it rolled me right along

     It was thunderin' and lightenin',
     but it rolled me right along
     It was thunderin', it was lightenin',
     Oh yeah, it rolled me right along
     There were thousands of people,
     they didn't have no place to go, mmm

     Little children they were screamin'
     and cryin', Oh yeah
     The wind was howlin',
     they didn't have no place to go, mmm
     There were thousands o' people,
     they's goin' from door to door, mmm

     My little boat kept rollin',
     it kept on rollin',
     You know it rolled me right along
     Mmm-mmm, Kept on rollin,
     Kept on rollin' Kept on rollin'
     Kept on rollin', Rollin'


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