C,G / C,G
Foi na cruz, foi na cruz
Amque um dia
F G Cmeus pecados castigados em Jesus
Foi na cruz
Gque um dia
CFoi na cruz
Love comes a knocking, comes a knocking at my door
Gm Eb D Gm Eb / Gm / Gmaj7but you, you and me, love we don't live there anymore.
Repeat this pattern for all other verses/choruses.
Em
The good son walks in to the field
he is a tiller, he has a tiller's hands
but down in his heart now, he lays down queer plans
against his brother and against his family.
Yet he worships his brother, and he worships his mother
but it's his father he says is an unfair man
The Good Son
EmThe Good son
AmThe Good son
Em
the good son has sat and often wept.....
G
One more man gone
one more man gone
Am C / Done more man
One more man gone ...
etc
(G) (Bb) Cm Bb
Sorrow's child sits by the river
Sorrow's child hears not the water
Cm BbSorrow's child sits by the river
Cm BbSorrow's child hears not the water
and just when it seems as though you've got strength enough to stand
Cm Bb Cm Bb G#sorrow's child all weak and strange stands waiting at your hand.
repeat
Piano Solo bit at end:
Cm / Bb / Cm / Eb / G / Cm, Bb / G#
- You'll have to play along to the record to work out where the changes come (it's fairly obvious from
the piano melody over the top).
Easy one this .....
intro Gm(C, D - notes played on 5th string)
Gm F Gm
Go son, go down to the water
and see the women weeping there
Gm F Gmthen go up into the mountains
Gm F Gmthe men they are weeping too.
Father why are all the women weeping?
Gm F GmThey are all weeping for their men
Gm F GmThen whay are all the men there weeping?
They are weeping back at them
F Gm F GmThis is a weeping song, a song in which to weep
Gm F Gmwhile all the men and women sleep
F Gm F Gm [C D - notes on 5th string]
this is a weeping song but i won't be weeping long.
Repeat to end
G D
Come sail your ships around me
C G Dand burn your bridges down
we make a little history baby
C G Deverytime you come around
G Dcome loose your dogs upon me
and let your hair hang down
G Dyou are a little mystery to me
C G DEverytime you come around.
?
C G DWe talk about it all night long
we define our moral ground
Em Gbut when I crawl into your arms
C G Deverything comes tumbling down.
Come sail your ships around me
C G Dand burn your bridges down
G Dwe make a little history baby
everytime you come around
Return to '?' and repeat through remaining lyrics.
Riff 1 TAB:
E---------------------------|
B---------------------------|
G---------------------------|
D---------------------------|
A-----1--3^5-5-3-3-1-1-0----|
E--3----------------------3-|
^ means slide. This riff is played with lots of delay added.
This is the riff played by the guitar throughout the verse - check record for exact rhythm.
The bits in {} are bass bits for bass guitar!)
Gm {G F# F D G (lo)}
I set out on Monday the night was cold and vast
(Guit Riff 1)
and my brother slept
and though i left quite quietly
{ G F# F D F(lo)} (guit Riff 1)
my father raged and raged and my mother wept
Gmnow, my life was like a river all sucked into the ground
and then the hammer came down, Lord the hammer came down
Repeat until:
Gm
Then I came upon a river and I laid my saddle down
G# Gmand then the hammer came down, lord, the hammer came down
it knocked me to the ground and I said "please please,
G# Gmtake me back to my home town", Lord, the hammer came down
Fm
I've seen your fairground hair, your seaside eyes
Gm Fmyour vampire tooth and your little truth, your tiny lies
I know your trembling hand, your guilty prize
Gm Fmyour sleeping limbs, your foreign hymns your midnight cries.
G# C# Eb G#So dry your eyes and turn your head away
now there's nothing more to say, now you've gone away.
Repeat over remaining lyrics
Ok, The bass in this is sort of playing { D D(octave higher) C A G } behing the vocals.
listen to the record and hopefully all will become clear!
C / Am / G /DYeah, yeah, well well
I took a walk down to the port
Dwhere strangers met and do consort
DAll blinkered with desire
and a winter fog moved thickly on
Ca winter fog moved thickly on
Am G Da winter fog moved thickly on.
Now who will be the witness, who will be the witness, who will be the witness
when the fogs too thick to see.
Repeat a lot.
Middle Bit:
Dand time gets somewhat muddled here
but no matter, no matter
here comes the events all tumbling down
and she said"well are you healed?"
and I said "yes, i'm healed"
and she said "well, yes I'm healed then too"
Dmand I said "babe you are a liar"
"babe you are a liar"
"babe you are a liar"
C"babe you are a liar"
Am G"babe you are a liar too"
D (with bass bit)
repeat D until end.
Last night I lay trembling
G Emthe moon it was low
G Emit was the end of love
of misery and woe
G Emthen suddenly above me
G Emher face burned in light
came a vision of beauty
Am Emall covered in white
G Dnow the bell tower is ringing
and the night has stole past
Em CO Lucy, can you hear me?
Am Dwherever you rest.
Rpt over remaining words.
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