Red Right Hand

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From: gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Greg O’Beirne)

   Red Right Hand      Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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     transcribed by Greg O’Beirne (gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)
     all comments & corrections welcome......

B  -244--|
E  --245-|
F# --467-|
G  --578-|

Chord sequence:  (two bars of each) B B E B F# E B B

crd lyr

 B  Take a little walk to the edge of town, go across the tracks
 B  Where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom, as it shifts and cracks
 E  Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires,
    Hey man, you know you’re never coming back
 B  Past the square, past the bridge, past the mills, past the stacks
 F# On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
 E  In a dusty black coat with a red right hand
 B
 B
 B  He’ll wrap you in his arms, tell you that you’ve been a good boy
 B  He’ll rekindle all the dreams it took you a lifetime to destroy
 E  He’ll reach deep into the hole, heal your shrinking soul,
    But there won’t be a single thing that you can do
 B  He’s a ghost, he’s a god, he’s a man, he’s a guru
 F# They’re whispering his name through this disappearing land
 E  But hidden in his coat is a red right hand
 B
 B
 B  You don’t own no money?  He’ll get you some
 B  You don’t have no car?  He’ll get you one
 E  You don’t have no self respect, you feel like an insect,
    Well don’t you worry buddy cause here he comes
 B  Through the ghetto and the barrio and the bowery and the slum
 F# A shadow is cast wherever he stands
 E  Stacks of green paper in his red right hand
 B


Solo #1

     1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +   1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 D --4-----------2-4-2---0-2-0-----0---------------------------------|
 A ------------------------------4---4-----0-------2-----------------|
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
     Play the above four times (once each over chords B,B,E,B)


     1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +   1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G --2-----------0-2-2---0-2---------0-------------------------------|
 D ------------------------------4---------------4---2---4-2-0---2---|
 A ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
     Play this once over F# chord


     1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +   1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 D --4-----------2-4-2---0-2-0-----0---------------------------------|
 A ------------------------------4---4-----0-------2-----------------|
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
     Play this once over B chord


Crd: B     B         G               B     B         G
     1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +   1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B ------------------8-------------------------------8---------------|
 G --4-----4---------7---------------4-----4---------7---------------|
 D --4-----4---------5---------------4-----4---------5---------------|
 A --2-----2-------------------------2-----2-------------------------|
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
     Play this twice over chords written above... (BBG,BBG)


crd lyr
 B  You’ll see him in your nightmares, you’ll see him in your dreams
 B  He’ll appear out of nowhere but he aint what he seems
 E  You’ll see him in your head, on the TV screen
    And hey buddy, I’m warning you to turn it off
 B  He’s a ghost, he’s a god, he’s a man, he’s a guru
 F# You’re one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
 E  Designed and directed by his Red Right Hand
 B

Solo #2

     1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +   1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 D --4-----------2-4-2---0-2-0-----0---------------------------------|
 A ------------------------------4---4-----0-------2-----------------|
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
     Play the above three times (once each over chords B,B,E)


     1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +   1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 D --4-----------2-4-2---0-2-0-----0-------------------------0---2---|
 A ------------------------------4---4-----0-------2-----4-----------|
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
     Play this once over B chord


     1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +   1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G --2-----------2-0-----2-0---------0-----------0-------0-----------|
 D ------------------4-------4-0-2-4---------------4-2-0---4-2-0-2-0-|
 A ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
     Play this once over F# chord


     1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +   1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 D --4-----------2-4-2---0-2-0-----0---------------------------------|
 A ------------------------------4---4-----0-------2-----------------|
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
     Play this once over B chord


Crd: B     B         G               B     B         G
     1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +   1   +   2   +   3   +   4   +
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B ------------------8-------------------------------8---------------|
 G --4-----4---------7---------------4-----4---------7---------------|
 D --4-----4---------5---------------4-----4---------5---------------|
 A --2-----2-------------------------2-----2-------------------------|
 E ------------------------------------------------------------------|
     Play this three times over chords written above... (BBG,BBG)


then finish on a B:

 E -----
 B -----
 G --4--
 D --4--
 A --2--
 E -----


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Greg O’Beirne
gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au