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The Good Son

Transcribed by Andy Field.

These chords were worked out by me using only the album and my ears. I apologise forany mistakes and I make no guaranteees that these chords are, in fact, correct. All comments & corrections welcome...

Table of Contents:

Foi Na Cruz

The Good Son

Foi Na Cruz

Intro:

C,G / C,G

Foi na cruz, foi na cruz

que um dia

F G C

meus pecados castigados em Jesus

Foi na cruz

que um dia

Foi na cruz

G C F

Love comes a knocking, comes a knocking at my door

Gm Eb D

but you, you and me, love we

Gm Eb / Gm / Gmaj7

don't live there anymore.

Repeat this pattern for all other verses/choruses.

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The Good Son

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

The Good son

the good son has sat and often wept............

One more man gone

one more man gone

Am [ C / D ]

one more man

One more man gone ...

etc

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Sorrow's Child

(G) (Bb) Cm Bb

Sorrow's child sits by the river

Cm Bb

Sorrow's child hears not the water

Cm Bb

Sorrow's child sits by the river

Cm Bb

Sorrow's child hears not the water

C# G#

and just when it seems as though

Eb C#

you've got strength enough to stand

Cm Bb

sorrow's child all weak and strange

Cm Bb G#

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).

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The Weeping Song

Easy one this .....

intro Gm

(C, D - notes played on 5th string)

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 whay are all the men there weeping?

Gm F Gm

They are weeping back at them

F Gm F Gm

This is a weeping song, a song in which to weep

Gm F Gm

while all the men and women sleep

F Gm

this is a weeping song but

F Gm [C D - notes on 5th string]

I won't be weeping long.

Repeat to end

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The Ship Song

G D

Come sail your ships around me

C G D

and burn your bridges down

G D

we make a little history baby

C G D

everytime you come around

G D

come loose your dogs upon me

C G D

and let your hair hang down

G D

you are a little mystery to me

C G D

Everytime you come around.

C G D

We talk about it all night long

C G D

we define our moral ground

Em G

but when I crawl into your arms

C G D

everything comes tumbling down.

G D

Come sail your ships around me

C G D

and burn your bridges down

G D

we make a little history baby

C G D

everytime you come around

Return to '*' and repeat through remaining lyrics.

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The Hammer Song

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

now, my life was like a river all sucked into the ground

G# Gm

and then the hammer came down, Lord the hammer came down

Repeat until:

Then I came upon a river and I laid my saddle down

G# Gm

and then the hammer came down, lord, the hammer came down

F Eb

it knocked me to the ground and I said "please please,

G# Gm

take me back to my home town", Lord, the hammer came down

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Lament

I've seen your fairground hair, your seaside eyes

Gm Fm

your vampire tooth and your little truth, your tiny lies

I know your trembling hand, your guilty prize

Gm Fm

your sleeping limbs, your foreign hymns your midnight cries.

G# C# Eb G#

So dry your eyes and turn your head away

C# Eb G# Eb Bb

now there's nothing more to say, now you've gone away.

Repeat over remaining lyrics

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The Witness Song

Ok, The bass in this is sort of playing
{ D D(octave higher) C A G } behind the vocals.
Listen to the record and hopefully all will become clear!

C / Am / G /

Yeah, yeah, well well

I took a walk down to the port

where strangers met and do consort

All blinkered with desire

and a winter fog moved thickly on

a winter fog moved thickly on

Am G D

a 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:

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"

and I said "babe you are a liar"

"babe you are a liar"

Am G

"babe you are a liar too"

D (with bass bit)

repeat D until end.

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Lucy

G Em

Last night I lay trembling

G Em

the moon it was low

G Em

it was the end of love

Am D

of misery and woe

G Em

then suddenly above me

G Em

her face burned in light

G Em

came a vision of beauty

Am Em

all covered in white

G D

now the bell tower is ringing

G D

and the night has stole past

Em C

O Lucy, can you hear me?

Am D

wherever you rest.

Repeat over remaining words.

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