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Slowly Goes The Night chords by
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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Key: Eb major•
Verse 1
D
D

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A
A

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Darling, that morning you chose to go
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D

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I awoke in my boots and clothes
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A

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You dig in my cards,
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D

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A

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stole all my cash

Even my five- hundred dollar
D
D

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suit was slashed

And I just lay there watching the
A
A

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sun fall down from the sky
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D

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Not wanting to open the letter
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A

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D
D

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But opening it anyway
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A

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And seeing those two words
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Lover, lover, goodbye
Verse 2
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A

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D
D

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A
A

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So slowly goes the night
Bm
Bm
2

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Next to me lies your body
E
E

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Laying like the map of

some forbidden land
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D

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I trace the ghosts of your bones
Bm
Bm
2

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A
A

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Em
Em

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With my trembling hand
Bm
Bm
2

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Dark is my night
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Em

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Bm
Bm
2

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And darker is my day yeah
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I must've been blind
A
A

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Out of my mind
F#m
F#m
2

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G

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I never, never saw the warning signs
Em
Em

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How goes it?
F#m
F#m
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It goes lonely
C#
C#
4

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It goes slowly
Verse 3
C#
C#
4

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D
D

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A

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So slowly goes the night
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D

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Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights
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A

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Come on
Bm
Bm
2

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I watch the moon get flayed each night
E
E

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Until the moon becomes the skinning knife
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D

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A
A

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D
D

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The skins of my sins I send to
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A

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Bm
Bm
2

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Em
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cover and comfort you
Bm
Bm
2

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I know of a Heaven
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Bm
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2

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Oh, but honey I know of a Hell, yeah
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I hang my head
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A

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I toss in my bed
F#m
F#m
2

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I never, never forget the
G
G

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words you said
Em
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F#m
F#m
2

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"One evening, I'm leaving"
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A

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C#
C#
4

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And I laughed and

checked her breathing

And said darling
Verse 4
C#
C#
4

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D
D

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A
A

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Oh, go slowly through the night
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D

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Oh baby, I feel the heal of time
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A

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And it hurts
Bm
Bm
2

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I wake to find you sitting right there
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D

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Cutting tangles out of your hair

Singing a song that's all wrong
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E
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Hey, but that's alright, I don't care
Em
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Bm
Bm
2

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Oh, I'm sorry
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Bm
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2

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For all the misery, yeah
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I reach out and embrace an
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empty space
F#m
F#m
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A song that slowly slowly fades
Em
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Where goes it?
F#m
F#m
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It goes some place
C#
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4

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It goes somewhere, where it's lonely
Verse 5
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C#
4

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D

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And black as the night
A
A

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Come on home, baby
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Let's put things right, put things right
Bm
Bm
2

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I hang my head and cry cry cry
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D

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Darling, all night I try
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To cease on a reason for this
A
A

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Bm
Bm
2

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Em
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mad mad season
Bm
Bm
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The nights, the nights they are so long now
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I can't remember being in light
Bm
Bm
2

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Call it sleep, call it death,
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Em
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call it what you like
Bm
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But only sleep, dear

Only sleep brings you back to life,
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Bm
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yeah
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I hang my head
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A

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I toss and I sweat
F#m
F#m
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I never, never, never can forget
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How goes it?
F#m
F#m
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C#
C#
4

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Well I'm going, baby, slowly slowly going

And we both know that it's
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gonna be al right
F#m
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Verse 6

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But it ain't you that has to cry cry cry
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A

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Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights
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Since you left my side, side, side

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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • D

  • A

  • Bm

    2

  • E

  • Em

  • G

  • F#m

    2

  • C#

    4

  • C

Capo: 1

Transpose: 0

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The original key of Slowly Goes The Night by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds is Eb major.

The primary chords used in Slowly Goes The Night are Eb, Bb, Cm, F, Fm, Ab.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 1 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like Eb, Bb, Cm, F, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of Slowly Goes The Night is approximately 133 beats per minute.

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