Papa Won’t Leave You Henry chords by Nick Cave
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Verse 1
(E minor) I went out walking the other day
The heat hung wet around my neck
My head it rung with screams and groans
From the night I spent amongst
her bones
And I passed beside
the mission house
Where that mad old buzzard,
the reverend
Shrieked and flapped about
life after you're dead
Well, I thought about my friend,
Michel
How they rolled him in linoleum
And they shot him in the neck
A bloody halo, like a think- bubble
Circling his head
And I bellowed at the firmament
Looks like the rains are hear to stay (B major)
And the rain pissed down upon me
And washed me all away
(E minor) Saying
Verse 2
Papa won't leave you, Henry (E minor)
Papa won't (E major) leave you, Boy (E minor)
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Well, the road is long
And the road is (E major) hard
And many fall by (E minor) the side (B major) (E minor) (B major)
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry (E minor)
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Verse 3
And I went (E minor) on down the road
He went on down the road
Oh yeah, I went on down the road
He went on down the road
Verse 4
Well, the (E minor) moon it looked (E major) exhausted
(E minor) Like something you should pity
Spent an age- spotted
Above the sizzling wires of
the city
Well, it reminded me of her face
Her bleached and hungry eyes
Her hair was like a curtain
Falling open with the laughter
And closing with the lies
And the ghost of her still
lingers on
Though she's passed through me
An (E major) d is gone (E minor)
Well the slum dogs, (E major) they are bark (E minor) ing
The rain children on the streets
And the tears that we will weep today
Will all be washed away (B major)
By the tears that we will weep
Will weep again tomor (E minor) row
Verse 5
Papa won't leave you, Henry (E minor)
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
For the road is long
And the (E major) road is hard
And many fall (E minor) by the side (B major)
Well, (E minor) Papa won't leave you, (B major) Henry
So there ain't no need to cry (E minor)
Verse 6
And I (E minor) went on down the road
He went on down the road
Oh yeah, I went on down the road
Interlude 1
He went on down the road
(E minor)
Verse 7
And I (E minor) came upon a little house
A little house upon a hill (Esus4) (E minor)
And I entered through,
and the curtain hissed
Into the house (E major) with its
(E minor) blood- red bowels
Where wet- lipped women
with greasy fists
(E major) Crawled the ceilings and the walls (E minor)
They filled me full of drink
And they led me round the rooms
Naked and cold and grinning
Until everything went black
And I came down spinning (C major) (E minor)
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
Well its into the shame
And its (E major) into the guilt
And its (E minor) into the fucking
fray (B major) (E minor) (B major)
And the walls ran red around me
A warm arterial spray
(E minor) Saying
Verse 8
Papa won't leave you, Henry (E minor)
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
Yeah, (B major) well Papa won't
(E minor) leave you, Henry (B major)
So there ain't no need to (E minor) cry
Verse 9
And I (E minor) went on (E major) down the road (E minor)
He went on down the road
Oh yeah, I went on down the road
He went on down the road
Yeah, whoa, whoa (E major) (E minor)
Verse 10
It's (E minor) the rainy sea (E major) son where (E minor) I'm living
Death comes leaping out
of every doorway
(E major) Wasting you for (E minor) money, for your clothes
And for your noth (E major) ing
(E minor) Entire towns being washed away
(E major) Favelas exploding
on inflammable spillways
Lynch- mob (E minor) s, death squads,
babies being born without brains
The mad heat and the relentless rains
Well if you stick your arm into that hole
It comes out sheared off to the bone
And with her kisses (E major) bubbling on my lips
(E minor) I swiped the rain and nearly missed (B major) (E minor)
(B major) And then I went on down the road
He went on down that (E minor) road
Papa won't (E major) leave you, Henry
Verse 11
(E minor)
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
(E major) Well, the road is long
And the road is hard
And (E minor) many fall by the side (B major)
Well, Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to (E minor) cry
Verse 12
And I (E minor) went on down (E major) the road
(E minor) He went on down the road
Oh yeah, I went on down the road
He went on down the road
Bent beneath (E major) my heavy load
(E minor) Under his heavy load
Yeah, I went on down that road
Yeah, he went on down the road
Whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa
Verse 13
Whoa, whoa (E minor)
Whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa
Whoa, (E minor) whoa
Whoa, whoa
And I went (E minor) on down that road
Papa Won’t Leave You Henry
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