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Papa Won't Leave You, Henry easy guitar chords by 
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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Verse 1
Em
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 Circling his head
And I bellowed at the firmament
B
Looks like the rains are hear to stay
And the rain pissed down upon me
And washed me all away
Em
Saying
Verse 2
Em
Papa won't leave you, Henry
E
Em
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Well, the road is long
E
And the road is hard
Em
B
Em
B
And many fall by the side
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
Em
So there ain't no need to cry
Verse 3
Em
And I went 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
Em
E
Well, the moon it looked exhausted
Em
Like something you should pity
Spent an age-spotted
Above 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
E
Em
And is gone
E
Em
Well the slum dogs, they are barking
The rain children on the streets
And the tears that we will weep today
B
Will all be washed away
By the tears that we will weep
Em
Will weep again tomorrow
Verse 5
Em
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
For the road is long
E
And the road is hard
Em
B
And many fall by the side
Em
B
Well, Papa won't leave you, Henry
Em
So there ain't no need to cry
Verse 6
Em
And I 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
Em
Verse 7
Em
And I came upon a little house
Esus4
Em
A little house upon a hill
And I entered through,
and the curtain hissed
E
Into the house with its
Em
blood-red bowels
bowels
Where wet-lipped women women
with greasy fists
E
Em
Crawled the ceilings and the walls
They filled me full of drink
And they led me round the rooms
Naked and cold and grinning
Until everything went black
C
Em
And I came down spinning
I awoke so drunk and full of rage
That I could hardly speak
A fag in a whale-bone corset
corset
Draping his dick across my cheek
Well its into the shame
E
And its into the guilt
Em
And its into the fucking
B
Em
B
fray
And the walls ran red around me
A warm arterial spray
Em
Saying
Verse 8
Em
Papa won't leave you, Henry
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
B
Yeah, well Papa won't
Em
B
leave you, Henry
Em
So there ain't no need to cry
Verse 9
Em
E
Em
And I went 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 10
Yeah, woah, woah
E
Em
E
Em
It's the rainy season where I'm living
Death comes leaping out
of every doorway
E
Em
Wasting you for money, for your clothes
E
And for your nothing
Em
Entire towns being washed away
E
Favelas exploding on inflammable
spillways
Em
Lynch-mobs, death 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 shit up to the bone
E
And with her kisses bubbling on my lips
Em
B
Em
I swiped the rain and nearly missed
B
And then I went on down the road
Em
He went on down that road
E
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Verse 11
Em
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, Boy
E
Well, the road is long
And the road is hard
Em
B
And many fall by the side
Well, Papa won't leave you, Henry
Em
So there ain't no need to cry
Verse 12
Em
E
And I went on down the road
Em
He went on down the road
Oh yeah, I went on down the road
He went on down the road
E
Bent beneath my heavy load
Em
Under his heavy load
Yeah, I went on down that road
Yeah, he went on down the road
Verse 13
Em
Woah, woah Woah,
woah
Woah, woah
Woah, woah
Woah, woah
Em
Woah, woah
Woah, woah
Woah, woah
Em
And I went on down that road
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