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Henry's Dream Chords

Guitar chords transcribed by Andy Field

Table of Contents:

Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
I Had A Dream, Joe
Straight To You
Brother, My Cup Is Empty
Christina The Astonishing
When I First Came To Town
John Finns' Wife
The Loom Of The Land
Jack The Ripper

Papa Won't Leave You, Henry

Well,this one is in the key of F but is played with a Capo at the first fret as far as I can gather.

INTRO:

Capo

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|-*-|---|-3-|--
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You can get the rhythm from the record. Basically, you play the top chord above (an Fm) and just slide your 4th finger up one fret and back down again in time with the record.

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Fm (same pattern as intro)

I went out walking the other day
The wind hung wet around my neck
My head it rung with screams and groans
From the night I spent amongst her bones
I past beside the mission house
Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend,
Shrieked and flapped about life after your dead
Well, I thought about my friend, Michel
How they rolled him in linoleum
And shot him in the neck
A bloody halo, like a think-bubble
Circling his head
And I bellowed at the firmament

C
Looks like the rains are hear to stay
And the rain pissed down upon me

Bb G# G Fm
And washed me all a - way

Saying

Fm
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Well, the road is long
And the road is hard

C
And many fall by the side
But Papa won't leave you, Henry

C Bb G# G Fm
So there ain't no need to cry

Fm
And I went on down the road
He went on down the road
And I went on down the road
He went on down the road

Repeat above for second verse/chorus
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(at the end of various phrases in this bit Blixa plays
two notes Bb (3rd string 5th fret) and G# (4th string
6th fret). He puts a lot of vibrato on both notes. You
can slot them in where appropriate.)

Fm
And I came upon a little house
A little house upon a hill
And I entered through, the curtain hissed
Into the house with its blood-red bowels
Where wet-lipped women with greasy fists
Crawled the ceilings and the walls
They filled me full of drink
And led me round the rooms
Naked and cold and grinning
Until everything went black
And I came down spinning
I awoke so drunk and full of rage
That I could hardly speak
A fag in a whale-bone corset
Draping his dick across my cheek
And its into the shame
And its into a guilt
And its into the fucking fray

And the walls ran red around me
A warm arterial spray

Saying
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy

Well, the night is dark
And the night is deep
And its jaws are open wide
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry

Repeat verse/chorus structure over the last verse/chorus.

This version represents the Live Seeds version more than the Henry's Dream version because the HD version has more pronounced keyboard parts which embellish what the guitar does. Still this is what the guitarists play believe it or not!!

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I Had A Dream, Joe

Cm F

I had a dream

Cm F Bb

I had a dream, Joe

-------- Gm

I had a dream, Joe

Eb D

You were standing in the middle of an open road

I had a dream, Joe

Your hands were raised up to the sky

Eb D

And your mouth was covered in foam

I had a dream, Joe

Eb D

A shadowy Jesus flitted from tree to tree

I had a dream, Joe

Eb D

And a society of whores stuck needles in an image of me

I had a dream, Joe

Eb D

It was Autumn time and thickly fell the leaves

And in that dream, Joe

A pimp in seersucker suit sucked a toothpick

D Cm

And pointed his finger at me

Cm F

I had a dream,

(I had a dream)

I had a dream,

Cm F Bb

I had a dream, Joe

Repeat over other verses Choruses.

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Straight To You

Intro

G# / Gm

G# Gm

All the towers of ivory are crumbling

G# Gm

And the swallows have sharpened their beaks

G# Bb Eb G#

This is the time of our great undoing

Eb G#

This is the time that I'll come running

G# Gm Fm

Straight to you

For I am captured

G# Gm Fm

Straight to you

For I am captured

Bb Eb

One more time

G# / Eb / G# / Fm / G# / Bb /

G# Gm

The light in our window is fading

etc.

G# Bb Gm G#

Gone are the days of rainbows

G# Bb Gm G#

Gone are the nights of swinging from the stars

Eb G#

For the sea will swallow up the mountains

Eb G#

And the sky will throw thunder-bolts and sparks

G# Gm Fm

Straight at you

But I'll come a-running

G# Gm Fm

Straight to you

But I'll come a-running

Bb Eb

One more time

repeat verse pattern over last verse.

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Brother, My Cup Is Empty

Riff

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-0--3------------

Brother, my cup is empty

And I haven't got a penny

For to buy no more whiskey

Em (Riff - tab)

I have to go home

I am the captain of my pain

Tis the bit, the bridle,

The trashing cane

The stirrup, the harness

The whipping mane

The pickled eye

The shrinking brain

O brother, buy me one more drink

I'll explain the nature of my pain

Yes, let me tell you once again

Em (Riff)

I am the captain of my pain

Rpt over subsequent verse/chorus

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Christina The Astonishing

Christina the Astonishing

Lived a long time ago

She was stricken with a seizure

At the age of twenty-two

They took her body in a coffin

To a tiny church in Liege

Where she sprang up from the coffin

Just after the Agnus Dei

She soared up to the rafters

Perched on a beam up there

Cried "The stink of human sin

Eb D

The stink Is more that I can bear"

Eb Bb G# Gm

Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh Rpt

Eb Bb G# Gm D

Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh, oh

Repeat over subsequent verses.

(there is actually no Guitar on this track on the record everything is played on a keyboard)

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When I First Came To Town

INTRO:

E |---|---|---|x

B |---|---|---|x Standard Chord tab - numbers relate to fingers

G |---|---|---|o 'x' means the string isn't played

D |---|-*-|---|2 'o' means the string is played 'open'.

A |---|---|-*-|3

E |---|---|---|x

B |---|---|---|x

G |---|---|---|o

D |---|---|---|o

A |---|---|-*-|3

E |---|---|---|x

These two chords are 'picked' one string at a time from the A string down to the open G. i.e. you pick the three notes in the first chord, remove one finger and pick the three notes of the second chord (I will refer to this as the 'C Pattern'). This pattern is repeated over and over until the line "oh lord how quickly, they changed their tune' over which you play (with the same 'plucking' pattern as before) - I shall call this the 'F pattern');

E |---|---|---|x

B |---|---|---|x

G |---|-*-|---|2

D |---|---|---|x

A |---|---|-*-|3

E |-*-|---|---|1

E |---|---|---|x

B |---|---|---|x

G |---|---|---|o

D |---|---|---|x

A |---|---|-*-|3

E |-*-|---|---|1

Then change back to the first pattern for the beginning of the next piece of lyric. i.e.

C pattern

When I first came to town

All the people gathered round

They bought me drinks

F pattern C Pattern

Lord, how quickly they changed their tune

rpt over next lyrics;

When I first came to town

People took me round from end to end

Like someone may take round a friend

O how quickly they changed their tune

Suspicion and dark murmurs surround me

Everywhere I go they confound me

As though the blood on my hands

Is there for every citizen to see

O sweet Jesus

There is no turning back

Gm Eb

There is always one more town

Cm F

A little further down the track

And from my window, across the tracks

I watch the juicers burn their fires

And in that light

Their faces leer at me

F C

How I wish they'd just let me be

When I first came to town

Their favours were for free

Now even the doors of the whores of

F C

this town Are closed to me

Repeat these basic chorus/verse patterns through the rest of the song. Should be easy if you just follow the record.

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John Finn's Wife

Well the night was deep and the night was dark

And I was at the old dance-hall on the edge of town

Some big ceremony was going down

Dancers writhed and squirmed and then,

Came apart and then writhed again

Like squirming flies on a pin

In the heat and in the din

Yes, in the heat and in the din

I fell to thinking about brand new wife of mad John Finn

Well, midnite came and clock did strike

And in she came, did John Finn's wife

With legs like scissors and butcher's knives

A tattooed breast and flaming eyes

And a crimson carnation in her teeth

Carving her way through the dance floor

And I'm standing over by the bandstand

Every eye gaping on John Finn's wife

Yeah, every eye gaping on John Finn's wife

Gm / Cm / Gm / Cm / Gm / Cm / F

Now John Finn's wife was something of a mystery

In a town where to share a sworn secret was a solemn duty

I had brass knuckles and a bolo knife

Over near the bandstand with John Finn's wife

She got perfumed breasts and raven hair

Sprinkled with wedding confettis

And a gang of garrotters were all giving me stares

Armed, as they were, with machetes

And the night through the window was full of lights

Winking and awatching at John Finns' wife

Next came the cops, all out on the town

But it don't look like no trouble there

As they had for the bar in their lumpy suits

And I slip my hand between the thighs of John Finn's wife

And they seemed to yawn awake, her thighs

It was a warm and very ferocious night

The moon full of blood and light

And my eyes grew small and my eyes grew tight

As I plotted in the ear of John Finns' wife

Gm / Cm / Gm / Cm / Gm / Cm / F

Enter John Finn in his shrunken suit

With his quick black eyes and black cheroot

With his filled-down teeth and a hobnail boot

And his fists full of pistols in his pockets

Aiming at me and aiming at his wife

The band fall silent fearing for their lives

And with fear in my guts like tangled twine

Cause all I got is brass knuckles and a bolo knife

And mad John Finns' wife is all

And the three of us walk out of the hall

Now the night bore down upon us all

You could hear the crickets in the thickets call

And guns did flare and guns did bawl

And I planted my bolo knife in the neck

Of mad John Finn. I took his wretched life

Now I'm over near the bandstand

Every hand moving on John Finns' wife

Fm Bb

And John Finns' wife

Took all the flowers down

From her hair

Cm F

And threw them on the ground

And the flies did hum

And the flies did buzz around

Poor John Finn

Cm F

Lying dead upon the ground

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The Loom Of The Land

It was the dirty end of winter

Along the loom of the land

Eb C#

When I walked with sweet Sally

C# Fm

Hand upon hand

And the wind it bit bitter

For a boy of no means

Eb C#

With no shoes on his feet

C# Fm

And a knife in his jeans

rpt

Fm Eb

O baby please don't cry

And try to keep

Eb C#

Your little hand upon my shoulder

Now go to sleep

repeat verse/chorus pattern over remaining words.

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Jack The Ripper

Gm / / Fm / Gm /

Gm Fm / Gm

I got a woman

Gm Fm Gm

She rules my house with an iron fist

Gm Fm/Gm

I got a woman

Gm Fm Gm

She rules my house with an iron fist

She screams out Jack the Ripper

Cm Gm

Every time I try to give that girl a kiss

Repeat over rest of song.

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