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Intro
C,G / C,G
DO
Foi na cruz, foi na cruz
LAm
que um dia
FA SOL DO
meus pecados castigados em Jesus
LAm
Foi na cruz
SOL
que um dia
DO
Foi na cruz
SOL DO FA
Love comes a knocking, comes a knocking at my door
SOLm MIb RE SOLm MIb / SOLm / SOLmaj7
but you, you and me, love we don't live there anymore.
Repeat this pattern for all other verses/choruses.
MIm
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
LAm
The Good Son
MIm
The Good son
LAm
The Good son
MIm
the good son has sat and often wept.....
SOL
One more man gone
one more man gone
LAm DO / RE
one more man
SOL
One more man gone ...
etc
(G) (Bb) DOm SIb
Sorrow's child sits by the river
DOm SIb
Sorrow's child hears not the water
DOm SIb
Sorrow's child sits by the river
DOm SIb
Sorrow's child hears not the water
DO# SOL# MIb DO#
and just when it seems as though you've got strength enough to stand
DOm SIb DOm SIb SOL#
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 humming the piano melody over the top).
Easy one this .....
intro SOLm
(C, D - notes played on 5th string)
SOLm FA SOLm
Go son, go down to the water
SOLm FA SOLm
and see the women weeping there
SOLm FA SOLm
then go up into the mountains
SOLm FA SOLm
the men they are weeping too.
SOLm FA SOLm
Father why are all the women weeping?
SOLm FA SOLm
They are all weeping for their men
SOLm FA SOLm
Then whay are all the men there weeping?
SOLm FA SOLm
They are weeping back at them
FA SOLm FA SOLm
This is a weeping song, a song in which to weep
SOLm FA SOLm
while 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
SOL RE
Come sail your ships around me
DO SOL RE
and burn your bridges down
SOL RE
we make a little history baby
DO SOL RE
everytime you come around
SOL RE
come loose your dogs upon me
DO SOL RE
and let your hair hang down
SOL RE
you are a little mystery to me
DO SOL RE
Everytime you come around.
¤
DO SOL RE
We talk about it all night long
DO SOL RE
we define our moral ground
MIm SOL
but when I crawl into your arms
DO SOL RE
everything comes tumbling down.
SOL RE
Come sail your ships around me
DO SOL RE
and burn your bridges down
SOL RE
we make a little history baby
DO SOL RE
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
SOLm
and though i left quite quietly
{ G F# F D F(lo)} (guit Riff 1)
my father raged and raged and my mother wept
SOLm
now, my life was like a river all sucked into the ground
SOL# SOLm
and then the hammer came down, Lord the hammer came down
Repeat until:
SOLm
Then I came upon a river and I laid my saddle down
SOL# SOLm
and then the hammer came down, lord, the hammer came down
FA MIb
it knocked me to the ground and I said "please please,
SOL# SOLm
take me back to my home town", Lord, the hammer came down
FAm
I've seen your fairground hair, your seaside eyes
SOLm FAm
your vampire tooth and your little truth, your tiny lies
FAm
I know your trembling hand, your guilty prize
SOLm FAm
your sleeping limbs, your foreign hymns your midnight cries.
SOL# DO# MIb SOL#
So dry your eyes and turn your head away
DO# MIb SOL# MIb SIb
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!
DO / LAm / SOL /
RE
Yeah, yeah, well well
I took a walk down to the port
RE
where strangers met and do consort
RE
All blinkered with desire
RE
and a winter fog moved thickly on
DO
a winter fog moved thickly on
LAm SOL RE
a winter fog moved thickly on.
RE
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:
RE
and 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"
REm
and I said "babe you are a liar"
"babe you are a liar"
"babe you are a liar"
DO
"babe you are a liar"
LAm SOL
"babe you are a liar too"
D (with bass bit)
repeat D until end.
SOL MIm
Last night I lay trembling
SOL MIm
the moon it was low
SOL MIm
it was the end of love
LAm RE
of misery and woe
SOL MIm
then suddenly above me
SOL MIm
her face burned in light
SOL MIm
came a vision of beauty
LAm MIm
all covered in white
SOL RE
now the bell tower is ringing
SOL RE
and the night has stole past
MIm DO
O Lucy, can you hear me?
LAm RE
wherever you rest.
Rpt over remaining words.
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