Red Right Hand — Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Chords and lyrics for Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (key of B).
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
Where [E]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#m]On a gathering storm comes
a tall handsome man
in a [E]dusty black coat with
a red right hand[Bm]
Verse 2
[Bm]He'll wrap you in his arms,
tell you that you've been a good..boy
He'll rekindle all the dreams
it took you a lifetime to destroy
He'll [E]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#m]They're whispering his name
through this disappearing land
But [E]hidden in his coat
is a red right hand[Bm]
Verse 3
[Bm]You don't have no money?
He'll get you some
You don't have no car?
He'll get you one
You [E]don't have no self-respect,
you feel like an insect
Well don't you worry buddy,
'cause here he comes
[Bm]Through the ghettos and the barrio
and the bowery and the slum
A [F#m]shadow is cast wherever he stands
[E]Stacks of green paper in his
red right hand
[Bm]
Solo
Bm, G X 4
Verse 4
[Bm]You'll see him in your nightmares,
you'll see him in your dreams
He'll appear out of nowhere but
he ain't what he seems
[E]You'll see him in your head,
on the TV screen
And 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
You're one [F#m]microscopic cog
in his catastrophic plan
[E]Designed and directed by his
Red right hand
[Bm]
Solo
Bm, G X6
[Bm]
X