Red Right Hand Cifras

A staple of the Bad Seeds live shows.
Brooding B minor blues, punctuated with two near-apocalyptic instrumental wigouts -
especially on the various live versions!
 
NB some live recordings are in Bbm, but mostly in Bm
 
Standard tuning
 
 
Chords
 
Bm     x24432
Em     022000
F#7    242322
E7     020100
Gm7    353333
 
 
[Intro]
 
| Bm  | Bm  | Bm  | Bm  |
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
Bm
Take a little walk to the edge of town and go across the tracks
          Bm
Where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom as it shifts and cracks
      Em
Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires
 
Hey man, you know you're never coming back
Bm
   Past the square, past the bridge, past the mills, past the stacks
     F#7
On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
     E7
In a dusty black coat with a red right hand
 
| Bm  | Bm  | Bm  | Bm
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
      Bm
He'll wrap you in his arms, tell you that you've been a good boy
        Bm
He'll rekindle all the dreams it took you a lifetime to destroy
      Em
He'll reach deep into the hole, heal your shrinking soul
 
But there won't be a single thing that you can do
Bm
   He's a god, he's a man, he's a ghost, he's a guru
        F#7
They're whispering his name through this disappearing land
    E7
But hidden in his coat is a red right hand
 
| Bm  | Bm  | Bm  | Bm
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
    Bm
You don't have no money, he'll get you some
    Bm
You don't have no car, he'll get you one
    Em
You don't have no self-respect, you feel like an insect
                                             Bm
Well, don't you worry buddy 'cause here he comes
 
Through the ghettos and the barrio and the bowery and the slum
  F#7
A shadow is cast wherever he stands
E7
Stacks of green paper in his red right hand
 
| Bm  | Bm  | Bm  | Bm  |
 
 
[Instrumental]
 
  Bm
e|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|5-----------4-5-|4---2-4-2---0-2-|0-----------2---|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|------2---------|----------------|
 
  Bm
e|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|5-----------4-5-|4---2-4-2---0-2-|0-----------2---|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|------2---------|----------------|
 
  Em
e|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|9-----------7-9-|7---5-7-5---4-5-|4-----0-----2---|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 
  Bm
e|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|5-----------4-5-|4---2-4-2---0-2-|0-----------2---|----4---5---7---|
E|----------------|----------------|------2---------|----------------|
 
  F#7                               E7
e|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|7-----------7-5-|4---7-5-4-0-2-4-|5-----------5-4-|2-0-5-4-2-0-2-0-|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 
  Bm
e|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|9-----------7-9-|7---5-7-5---4-5-|4-----0-----2---|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 
| Bm  | Gm7 | Bm  | Gm7 |
| Bm  | Bm  | Bm  | Bm  |
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
Bm
  You'll see him in your nightmares, you'll see him in your dreams
  Bm
He'll appear out of nowhere but he ain't what he seems
Em
  You'll see him in your head, on the TV screen
 
Hey buddy, I'm warning you to turn it off
Bm
  He's a ghost, he's a god, he's a man, he's a guru
           F#7
You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
  E7
Designed and directed by his red right hand
 
 
[Ending]
 
| Bm  | Gm7 | Bm  | Gm7 |
| Bm  | Gm7 | Bm  | Gm7 |
| Bm
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