Song Of Joy chords by Nick Cave

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Verse 1
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Have mercy  on me, sir,
allow me to impose on you
I have no place to stay,
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my bones are cold right through
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I will tell you a story of
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a man and his family
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and I swear that it is true
Ten years ago I met a girl named Joy
she was a sweet and happy thing
Her eyes were bright blue jewels
and we were married in the spring
I had no idea
what happiness
a little love could bring
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Or what life had in store
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But all things move toward their end
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All things move toward their end
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On  that you can be sure
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Then one morning I woke
to find her weeping
for many days to follow
She grew so sad and lonely,
became joy in name only
Within her breast there launched
an unnamed sorrow
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And a dark and grim force set sail
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Farewell happy field,
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where joy forever dwells
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Hail horrors hail
Was it an act of contrition
or some awful premonition?
As if she saw into the heart
of her final blood -soaked knight
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Those lunatic eyes,
that hungry kitchen knife
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Are I see, sir, that I have your attention?
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Well, could it be?
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How often have I asked that question,
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well then in quick succession
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we had ba  bies one, two, three.
We called them Hilda, Hattie and Holly,
they were their mother's children.
Their eyes were bright blue jewels
and they were quiet as a mouse.
There was no laughter in the house.
No, not for Hilda, Hattie, or Holly
No wonder people said,
poor Mother Joy, so melancholy
Well, one night there came a visitor
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to our little home
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I was visitin' a sick friend
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I  was a doctor then, Joy,
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and the girls were on their own
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
Jo had been bound with electrical tape,
in her mouth a gag.
She'd been stabbed repeatedly,
and stuffed into a sleeping bag.
In their very cots,
my girls were robbed of their lives.
Method of murder,
much the same as my wife's
Yep, method of murder,
much the same as my wife's
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It was midnight when I arrived home
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Said to the police
on the telephone
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Someone's taken four innocent lives
They never caught the man
He's still on the loose
It seems he's done many, many more
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John Milton on the walls
and the victim's blood
The police are investigating
a tremendous cause
In my house he wrote his red right hand
And that, I'm told,
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is from Paradise   Lost
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The wind round here gets wicked cold
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But my story's nearly told
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I fear the morning
will bring quite a frost
So I've left my home,
I drift from land to land
I am upon your step,
and you are a family man
Outside the vultures wheel,
the wolves howl
The serpents hiss, and to extend this small
All favor, would be the sum of earthly bliss
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Do you reckon me a friend?
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The sun to me is dark
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And silent as the moon
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Do you, have a room?
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Are you beckoning me in?
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