Oh My Lord chords by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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Verse 1
(E minor) I thought I'd take a walk today (D major)
It's a mistake I sometimes make (E minor)
My kids lay asleep in bed
(D major) My wife lay wide-awake
I I (E minor) kissed her softly on the brow (D major)
I tried not to make a sound
(E minor) But with stony eyes she looked at me
(D major) And gently squeezed my hand (E minor)
Call it a premonition,
(D major) call it a crazy vision (E minor)
Call it intuition, (D major) something learned
from mother (E minor)
But when she looked up at me,
(D major) I could clearly see
(E minor) The sword of Damocles
(D major) hanging directly above her
(E minor) (D major) Oh lord, oh my (E minor) lord
(D major) Oh lord
(G major) How have I offended thee?
(C major) Wrap your tender arm (C minor) s around me
(G major) Oh lord, (D major) oh lord
Oh (E minor) (D major) my (E minor) lord
Verse 2
They called (E minor) at me through the
fence (D major)
They were not making any sense
(E minor) They claimed that I had lost the plot
(D major) Kept saying that I was not
(E minor) The man I used to be
(D major) They held their babes aloft
(E minor) Threw marshmallows at the security
(D major) And said that I'd grown soft (E minor)
Call it intuition,
(D major) call it a creeping suspicion,
(E minor) But their words of derision (D major) meant
they hardly knew me (E minor)
For even I could see in (D major) the
way they stared at me
(E minor) The spear of destiny (D major)
sticking right through me (E minor)
Oh (D major) lord, oh my (E minor) lord
Oh (D major) lord
(G major) How have I offended thee?
(C major) Wrap your tender arms (C minor) round me
(G major) Oh lord, (D major) oh lord
Oh (E minor) (D major) my (E minor) (D major)
(E minor) lord
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Interlude 1
(D major) (E minor) (D major) (E minor)
(D major) (E minor)
Verse 3
Now I'm (E minor) at the hairdressers (D major)
People watch me as they move past
(E minor) A guy wearing plastic antlers
(D major) Presses his bum against the glass
(E minor) Now I'm down on my hands and knees
(D major) And it's so fucking hot!
(E minor) Someone cries,
"What are you looking for?"
(D major) I scream, "The plot, the plot!"
(E minor) I grab my telephone,
(D major) I call my wife at home
(E minor) She screams, "Leave us alone!" I (D major) say,
"Hey, it's only me"
(E minor) The hairdresser with his scissors,
(D major) he holds up the mirror
I (E minor) look back and shiver,
(D major) I can't even believe what I can (E minor) see
Interlude 2
(E minor) (D major) (E minor) (D major) (E minor)
(D major) (E minor) (D major) (E minor)
Verse 4
Be mindful (E minor) of the prayers you send
(D major) Pray hard but pray with care
(E minor) For the tears that you are crying now
(D major) Are just your answered prayers
(E minor) The ladders of life that we scale merrily
(D major) Move mysteriously around
(E minor) So that when you think
you're climbing up, man
(D major) In fact you're climbing down
(E minor) Into the hollows of glam (D major) our,
where with spike and hammer
(E minor) With telescopic camera,
(D major) they chose to turn the screw
Oh I (E minor) hate them, ma!
(D major) Oh I hate them, pa!
(E minor) Oh I hate them all (D major) for what they
went and done to you (E minor)
Oh (D major) lord, oh my (E minor) lord
Oh (D major) lord
How (G major) have I offended thee?
Wrap (C major) your tender (C minor) arms 'round me
(G major) Oh lord, (D major) oh lord
Oh my (E minor) lord
Outro 1
(E minor) (D major) (E minor) (D major) (E minor)
(D major) (E minor) (D major)
(E minor) (D major) (E minor)
(D major) (E minor) (D major) (E minor)
(D major) (E minor) (D major) (E minor)
Oh My Lord
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
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