Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Boatmans Call Album Chords & Tabs

 

The Boatmans Call Album Chords & Tabs

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Chords & Tabs

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The Boatmans Call Album Chords

   
Here's another chord compilations of one of the most depressing albums I've ever heard. 
a pretty spare, acoustic/piano album so I figured it'd be cool to collect the chords to 
in one place. Here it goes!

All transcription credit goes to Alon Drori, Boaz, Moho, Leo McPartland, Peter 
and ondrej.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds'

1. Into My Arms

Note: If chord reads, */# play the chord * with the # bass note.

F/C
                                      C     G/B C F/C
I don't believe in an interventionist God
                              C   G/B C F/C
But I know, darling, that you do
                                    C       G/B C F/C
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
				 C
Not to intervene when it came to you
			     F
Not to touch a hair on your head
		     Dm
To leave you as you are
	   G
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

		Dm
E --3p1-0h1---------1--------------------|
B ----------3---3--------1h3-----3-------|
G ------------2---2---2--------2---2-----|
D ----------0----------------0-----------|
A ---------------------------------------|
E ---------------------------------------|

  Into my arms, 	O Lord
		C
E --1p0---0------------------------------|
B ------3---1-------1----0h1-------------|
G --------------0----------------0-------|
D ------------2---2---2--------2---2-----|
A ----------3----------------3-----------|
E ---------------------------------------|

  Into my arms, 	O Lord
		Dm
E --3p1-0h1---------1--------------------|
B ----------3---3--------1h3-----3-------|
G ------------2---2---2--------2---2-----|
D ----------0----------------0-----------|
A ---------------------------------------|
E ---------------------------------------|

  Into my arms, 	O Lord
		C
E --1p0---0---------------------------0--------1---|
B ------3---1-------1-----0---3---1-------3----1---|
G --------------0------------------------------2---|
D ------------2---2---2-----2---2---2---2---2------|
A ----------3-----------------3-------3------------|
E ---------------------------------------------1---|

  Into my arms

And I don't believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
To each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms

    Into my arms, O Lord
    Into my arms, O Lord
    Into my arms, O Lord
    Into my arms

And I believe in Love
And I know that you do too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
So keep your candles burning
And make her journey bright and pure
That she will keep returning
Always and evermore

    Into my arms, O Lord
    Into my arms, O Lord
    Into my arms, O Lord
    Into my arms

2. Lime-Tree Arbour

   Am
The boatman calls from the lake
   F              G
A lone loon dives upon the water
   Am
I put my hand over hers
   F              G        C
Down in the lime-tree arbour


   Am
The wind in the trees is whispering
   F                  G
Whispering low that I love her
   Am
She puts her hand over mine
   F                  G        C
Down in the lime-tree arbour

Chorus:
          G
        Through every breath that I breathe
          Am                    F
        And every place I go
          Fm             C         Am
        There is a hand that protects me
          F          G           C
        And I do love her so


Repeat the same chords through the
others lyrics and chorus

3. People Ain't No Good

intro: C/G/F

People just (C)ain't no good(G)(F)
I think that's well understood
You can see it everywhere you look
People just ain't no (G)good
People they (C)ain't (G)no (G)good

To our (C)love send a dozen white (F)lilies

4. Brompton Oratory

(C)Up those stone (A)steps I climb
(F)Hail this joyful (G)day¥s return
(C)Into its great shadowed (A)vault I go
(Bb)Hail the Pente(F)costal (G)morn

and so it goes...

5. There Is A Kingdom
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/n/nick_cave_and_the_bad_seeds/the_boatmans_call_album_crd.html ]
Intro: C  Fm  C  Fm
       Eb Ab  Eb Ab

Verse: (same as intro)

       C             Fm                  C
       Just like a bird that sings up the sun
            Fm            Eb
       In a dawn so very dark
                   Ab
       Such is my love for you
       Eb          Ab
       Such is my love

Chorus: Db            Ab
       There is a kingdom
        Db         Ab
       There is a king

The bridge, I don't know exactly, but just play around in F minor.

6. (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?

(a)I've felt you coming girl, (C)as you drew near
(F)I knew you'd find me, cause I (C)longed you here
(F)Are you my destiny? Is this (C)how you'll appear?
 W(Bb)rapped in a coat with tears in your eyes?
(G)Well take that coat babe, and throw it on the floor
Are (d)you the (C)one that (Bb)I've been (F)waiting for?(a)

O we will (G)know, won't we?
(F)The sta(G)rs will explode (a)in the sky
But they (G)don't, do they?
(F)Stars have their (G)moment and then they (a)die

7. Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?

   Gm             Cm
I remember a girl so very well
   Gm               F
The carnival drum all mad in the air
   Gm                          Dm
Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell
   Bb                   F
O where do we go now but nowhere

   Gm               Cm
In a colonial hotel we fucked up the sun
   Gm               F
And then we fucked it down again
   Gm               Dm
Well the sun goes up and the sun goes down
   Bb                      F
Going round and around but nowhere

   Gm                  Cm
The kitten that padded and purred on my lap
   Gm                  F
Now swipes at my face with the paw of a bear
   Gm                    Dm
I turn the other cheek and you lay into that
   Bb                F
O where do we go now but nowhere

Chorus:
          Eb                         F
          O wake up my love my lover wake up
          Eb                         F
          O wake up my love my lover wake up


And so on with the other verses and chorus...

8. West Country Girl

intro: A

(a)With a crooked smile and a heart-shaped face
Comes from the West country where the birds sing bass
She¥s got a house-big heart where we all live
(F)and plead and council (E)and forgive

9. Black Hair

intro: F/G a few times

(F)Last night my (G)kisses were banked in (F)black hair(G)
(F)And in my bed, my (G)lover, her hair was midnight (F)black(G)
(C)And all her (e)mystery dwelled within her (a)black hair(F)
(F)And her black hair (G)framed A happy 
face(G)

(F)Today she took A (G)train to the (C)West(A)

10. Idiot Prayer
Capo: 8th Fret

Am                                            G
They're taking me down my friend
Am                                            G
and as they usher me off to my end
                            D     C
will I bid you adieu?
                            D     C
Or be seeing you soon?
                                              Am
If what they say round here is true
  G
then we'll meet again
              D
me and you.

11. Far From Me

Main bass-line
E----------------------------------------------------|
B----------------------------------------------------|
G----------------------------------------------------|
D--------------------- 0-0--0--33-22-----------------|
A-3-3-0-33-----3-------------------3-----------------|
E----------------------------------------------------|

Chorus 1:
F   G
you were my mad little lover
F      G
in a world where everybody fucks everybody else over
   Dm              G
you are so far from me
   Dm              G
so far from me
C
far from me

(For other choruses)

Dm              G
so far from me
Dm              G
so far from me
Em                      F                    G
way across some cold, neurotic sea