Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Papa Wont Leave You Henry Chords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I went out walking the other day
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The heat hung wet around my neck
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My head it rung with screams and groans
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  From the night I spent amongst her bones
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And I passed beside the mission house
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Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend
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Shrieked and flapped about life after your dead
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Well, I thought about my friend, Michel
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How they rolled him in linoleum
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And shot him in the neck
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A bloody halo, like a think-bubble
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Circling his head
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And I bellowed at the firmament
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Looks like the rains are here to stay
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And the rain p**sed down upon me
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And washed me all away
 
Saying:
 
 
[Chorus]
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
         Em
Well the road is long
 
And the road is hard
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And a many fall by the side
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Well Papa won't leave you, Henry
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So there ain't no need to cry
 
 
[Post-Chorus]
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And I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
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Oh yeah, I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
 
 
[Verse 2]
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Well, the moon it looked exhausted
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Like something you should pity
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Spent an age spotted
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Above the sizzling wires of the city
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Well, it reminded me of her face
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And her bleached and hungry eyes
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Her hair was like a curtain
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Falling open with the laughter
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And closing with the lies
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And the ghost of her still lingers on
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Though she's passed through me
 
And is gone
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Well the slum dogs, they are barking
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And the rain children on the streets
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And the tears that we will weep today
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Will all be washed away
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By the tears we weep today, we'll weep again tomorrow
 
 
[Chorus]
Em
Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
         Em
Well the road is long
 
And the road is hard
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And a many fall by the side
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Well Papa won't leave you, Henry
         A                Em
So there ain't no need to cry
 
 
[Post-Chorus]
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And I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
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Oh yeah, I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
 
 
[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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And I came upon a little house
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A little house upon a hill
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And I entered through and the curtain hissed
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Into the house with its blood-red bowels
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Where wet-lipped women with greasy fists
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Crawled the ceilings and the walls
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And they filled me full of drink
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And they led me round the rooms
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Naked and cold and grinning
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Until everything went black
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And I came down spinning
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I awoke so drunk and full of rage
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That I could hardly speak
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A man in a whalebone corset
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Draping his arm across my cheek
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Well its into the shame
 
And its into a guilt
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And its into the stupid fray
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And the walls ran red around me
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A warm arterial spray
 
Saying:
 
 
[Chorus]
Em
Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
          Em
Well, the night is dark
 
And the night is deep
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And its jaws are open wide
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Yeah well, Papa won't leave you, Henry
         A                Em
So there ain't no need to cry
 
 
[Post-Chorus]
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And I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
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Oh yeah,I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
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Yeah, woah, woah  (woah, woah, woah, woah)
 
 
[Verse 4]
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It's the rainy season where I'm living
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Death comes leaping out of every doorway
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Wasting you for money, for your clothes
 
And for your nothing
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Entire towns being washed away
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Favelas exploding on inflammable spillways
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And the lynch-mobs, death squads, babies being born without brains
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The mad heats and the relentless rains
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Well if you stick your arm into that hole
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It comes out sheared off to the bone
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And with her kisses bubbling on my lips
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I swiped the rain and nearly missed
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And then I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
 
 
[Chorus]
Em
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Em
Papa won't leave you, Boy
Em
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Em
Papa won't leave you, Boy
          Em
Well, the road is long
 
And the road is hard
    Em               G      Bm
And many fall by the side
           G                     Bm
Well then, Papa won't leave you, Henry
         A                Em
So there ain't no need to cry
 
 
[Post-Chorus]
      Em
And I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
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Oh yeah, I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
 
 
[Outro]
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Yeah, bent Beneath my heavy load
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(Under his heavy load)
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Yeah, I went on down the road
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Oh woah ,woah (woah, woah)
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Oh woah ,woah (woah, woah)
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Yeah, woah ,woah (woah, woah)
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And I went on down that road