Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! chords by Nick Cave

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Intro 1

Verse 1
E 
 (E major) Dig yourself,
A 
 (A major) Lazarus
Em 
A 
 (E minor) Dig yourself,  (A major) Lazarus
Em 
E 
A 
Dig your (E minor) self,  (E major) Laz (A major) arus
B 
A 
 (B major) Dig yourself, back  (A major) in that hole

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Verse 2
E 
 (E major) Larry made his nest up in
A 
Em 
A 
 (A major) the autumn  (E minor) branches  (A major) 
E 
 (E major) Built from nothing but high
A 
Em 
 (A major) hopes  (E minor) and  thin air
A 
Em 
 (A major) Collected up  (E minor) some baby
A 
Em 
blasted  (A major)  (E minor) mothers
They took their chances
A 
Em 
 (A major) and  (E minor) for a while
B 
A 
Em 
E 
A 
They lived quite  (B major) happily  (A major) up there  (E minor)  (E major)  (A major) 

Verse 3
Em 
A 
He  (E minor) came from New York  (A major) City man
B 
Em 
But he  (B major) couldn't take  (E minor) the pace
A 
Em 
 (A major) He thought  (E minor) it  was like a dog
A 
Em 
A 
eat dog  (A major) world  (E minor)  (A major) 
E 
Em 
B 
But he went  (E major) to San  (E minor) Fran (B major) cisco
Em 
Spent a year in outer  (E minor) space
A 
Em 
E 
A 
Em 
 (A major) With a sweet  (E minor) little San  (E major) Fran (A major) ciscan  (E minor) girl
A 
I  (A major) can

Verse 4

hear my mother wailing

And a whole lot of scraping of chairs

Verse 5
C 
I  (C major) don't know what it is
G 
But there's  (G major) definitely something
D 
Em 
 (D major) go ing on up (E minor) stairs
A 
Dig yourself,  (A major) Lazarus
Em 
A 
 (E minor) Dig yourself,  (A major) Lazarus
Em 
A 
 (E minor) Dig yourself,  (A major) Lazarus
B 
Em 
A 
Em 
 (B major) Dig yourself, back  (E minor) in  that  (A major)  (E minor) 
hole (I want you to dig)
A 
B 
(I want you  (A major)  (B major) to dig)
A 
(I want you  (A major) to dig)

Verse 6
Em 
Well,  (E minor) yeah, New York City,
A 
E 
 (A major) he had to  (E major) get out of there
A 
E 
Em 
A 
And San  (A major) Francisco,  (E major) well, I don't  (E minor) know  (A major) 
Em 
 (E minor) And then to LA,
A 
Em 
 (A major) where he spent  (E minor) about a day
A 
Em 
He  (A major) thought even the  (E minor) pale
A 
sky-stars were  (A major) were smart
Em 
E 
 (E minor) Enough  (E major) to keep well away
B 
from LA  (B major) 
Em 
A 
Em 
 (E minor)  (A major)  (E minor) 

Verse 7
A 
Em 
 (A major) Meanwhile Larry  (E minor) made
A 
up names  (A major) for the ladies
Em 
B 
 (E minor) Like Ms Boo and Ms Quick (B major) 
Em 
A 
He  (E minor) stockpiled weapons  (A major) an
Em 
A 
d took pot  (E minor) shots in the air (A major) 
Em 
He feasted on  (E minor) their lovely
E 
A 
 (E major) bodies like a lunat (A major) ic
Em 
And  (E minor) wrapped himself up in
A 
their soft  (A major) yellow hair
Em 
 (E minor) 

Verse 8
A 
Em 
A 
 (A major) I can hear chant (E minor) s and incantation (A major) s
Em 
And  (E minor) some guy is mentioning
A 
Em 
 (A major) me  (E minor) in  his prayers
A 
 (A major) 

Verse 9
Em 
D 
C 
 (E minor) Well  (D major) I  don't  (C major) know what it is
G 
But there's  (G major) definitely something
D 
Em 
go (D major) ing on upstairs  (E minor) 
A 
Dig yourself,  (A major) Lazarus
Em 
A 
 (E minor) Dig yourself, Laz (A major) arus
Em 
A 
 (E minor) Dig yourself, Laz (A major) arus
B 
 (B major) Dig yourself,
Em 
A 
Em 
back in that  (E minor) hole (I want you  (A major)  (E minor) to dig)
(I want you to dig)
A 
B 
(I want you to  (A major)  (B major) dig)

Verse 10
Em 
D 
Well  (E minor) New York City Man  (D major) 
Em 
B 
Em 
 (E minor) San Francisco, LA,  (B major) I  (E minor) don't know
B 
Em 
 (B major) But Larry  (E minor) grew increasingly
B 
Em 
 (B major) neurotic and  (E minor) obscene
B 
Em 
B 
I  (B major) mean,  (E minor) he, he never asked  (B major) to
Em 
be raised up from  (E minor) the tomb
B 
Em 
 (B major) I mean no one ever actually  (E minor) asked him
D 
Em 
A 
to for (D major) sake his  (E minor) dreams  (A major) 

Verse 11
Em 
A 
 (E minor) Anyway, to cut a long  (A major) story short
Em 
B 
 (E minor) Fame finally found  (B major) him
Em 
A 
Mir (E minor) rors became his torturer (A major) s
Em 
B 
Cam (E minor) eras snapped him at every chance  (B major) 
Em 
B 
 (E minor) The women all went back to their  (B major) homes
Em 
And  (E minor) their husbands
B 
E 
B 
With secret  (B major) smiles  (E major) in the corner (B major) s
Em 
B 
of their mouth (E minor) s    (B major) 

Verse 12
Em 
He ended  (E minor) up, like so many of them do
B 
Em 
Back in the streets of New  (B major) York  (E minor) City
B 
In a  (B major) soup queue
Em 
A  (E minor) dope fiend
B 
Em 
 (B major) A  slave  (E minor) 
B 
Then  (B major) prison
Em 
Then the mad  (E minor) house
B 
Em 
 (B major) Then the grave  (E minor) 
B 
Em 
A 
 (B major) Oh poor Larry  (E minor)  (A major) 

Verse 13
Em 
A 
But  (E minor) what do we really know of the dead  (A major) 
Em 
A 
Em 
 (E minor) And who actually  (A major) cares?  (E minor) 
C 
Well I don't  (C major) know what it is
G 
But there's  (G major) definitely something
D 
Em 
go (D major) ing on upstair (E minor) s
A 
Dig yourself, Laz (A major) arus

Verse 14
Em 
 (E minor) 
A 
Dig yourself, Laz (A major) arus
Em 
A 
 (E minor) Dig yourself,  (A major) Lazarus
B 
 (B major) Dig yourself,
Em 
back in that hole (I want you to  (E minor) dig)
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
Dig yourself, Lazarus
A 
B 
 (A major)  (B major) Dig yourself,
Em 
back  (E minor) in that (dig, that's right, dig)
Dig yourself, Lazarus
A 
Dig yourself, Laz (A major) arus
Em 
B 
 (E minor) Dig yourself, Laz (B major) arus
Dig yourself,
Em 
back in that (I want you to  (E minor) dig)
A 
Dig yourself, Laz (A major) arus
Em 
D 
 (E minor) Dig yourself, Laz (D major) arus
Em 
 (E minor) Dig yourself, Lazarus
B 
Em 
 (B major) Dig yourself, back in that  (E minor) hole