The Weeping Song Cifras

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                           Nick Cave - The Weeping Song
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Album : The Good Son (1990)
Tempo : 86
E-mail: gwendal.mollo@orange.fr
Tabbed by: newg    (http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/newg/)
 
You can use a capo in 3 (transpose -3)
 
 Riff
e|----------------|
B|----------------| Play this a the end of each sentences of the verses
G|--0-------------|
D|----3--0--------|
A|----------------|
E|----------------|
 
[Verse]
Gm              F      Gm
Go son, go down to the water
Gm                F       Gm
And see the women weeping there
Gm           F      Gm
Then go up into the mountains
Gm                F       Gm
The men, they are weeping too
Gm                      F     Gm
Father, why are all the women weeping?
Gm                   F         Gm
They are all weeping for their men
Gm                   F         Gm
Then why are all the men there weeping?
Gm               F       F/C   Gm
They are weeping ba______ck at them
 
[Chorus]
F         Gm
This is a weeping song
  F                Gm
A song in which to weep
              F             Gm
While all the men and women sleep
F         Gm
This is a weeping song
      F           F/C  Gm
But I won't be weeping long
 
[Verse]
Gm                      F        Gm
Father, why are all the children weeping?
Gm              F      Gm
They are merely crying son
Gm                 F       Gm
O, are they merely crying, father?
Gm                   F           Gm
Yes, true weeping is ye_____t to come
 
[Chorus]
F         Gm
This is a weeping song
  F                Gm
A song in which to weep
              F               Gm
While all the little children sleep
F        Gm
This is a weeping song
      F                Gm
But I won't be weeping long
 
[Verse]
Gm                 F       Gm
 O father tell me, are you weeping?
Gm               F      Gm
 Your face seems wet to touch
Gm              F      Gm
  O then I'm so sorry, father
Gm                 F              Gm
 I never thought I hur____t you so much
 
[Chorus]
F         Gm
This is a weeping song
  F                Gm
A song in which to weep
         F                 Gm
While we rock ourselves to sleep
F         Gm
This is a weeping song
      F                Gm
But I won't be weeping long 
     F                Gm
No I won't be weeping long 
     F                Gm
No I won't be weeping long 
     F                    Gm
No I won_____t be weeping long 
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