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

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     022000
    242322
     020100
    353333


[Intro]

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[Verse 1]


Take a little 

walk to the ed

ge of town and

 go across the

 tracks
          
Where the viad

uct looms like

 a bird of doo

m as it shifts

 and cracks
      
Where secrets 

lie in the bor

der fires, in 

the humming wi

res

Hey man, you know you're never coming back

   Past the sq

uare, past the

 bridge, past 

the mills, pas

t the stacks
     
On a gathering

 storm comes a

 tall handsome

 man
     
In a dusty bla

ck coat with a

 red right han

d

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[Verse 2]

      
He'll wrap you

 in his arms, 

tell you that 

you've been a 

good boy
        
He'll rekindle

 all the dream

s it took you 

a lifetime to 

destroy
      
He'll reach de

ep into the ho

le, heal your 

shrinking soul

But there won't be a single thing that you can do

   He's a god,

 he's a man, h

e's a ghost, h

e's a guru
        
They're whispe

ring his name 

through this d

isappearing la

nd
    
But hidden in 

his coat is a 

red right hand

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[Verse 3]

    
You don't have

 no money, he'

ll get you som

e
    
You don't have

 no car, he'll

 get you one
    
You don't have

 no self-respe

ct, you feel l

ike an insect
              
Well, don't yo

              
u worry buddy 

              
'cause here he

   
 comes

Through the ghettos and the barrio and the bowery and the slum
  
A shadow is ca

st wherever he

 stands

Stacks of gree

n paper in his

 red right han

d

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[Verse 4]


  You'll see h

im in your nig

htmares, you'l

l see him in y

our dreams
  
He'll appear o

ut of nowhere 

but he ain't w

hat he seems

  You'll see h

im in your hea

d, on the TV s

creen

Hey buddy, I'm warning you to turn it off

  He's a ghost

, he's a god, 

he's a man, he

's a guru
           
You're one mic

roscopic cog i

n his catastro

phic plan
  
Designed and d

irected by his

 red right han

d


[Ending]

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