Chords for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - John Finn's Wife (1992)

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Well, the night was deep and the night was dark and I was at the old dance hall on the
edge of town. _ _ _ _
_ _ Some big ceremony was going down.
_ Well, dancers rocked and squirmed and then came apart and then arrived again like squirming
flies on a pin in the heat and in the din, in the heat and in the din.
And I fell to thinking about the brand new wife of Mayor John Fins. _ _ _ _
_ Well, the midnight came and the clock did strike and in she came a did John Fins wife
with legs like scissors and butchers knives, tattooed breasts and flaming eyes and a crimson
carnation in her teeth carving her way through the dance floor and I'm standing over by the
bandstand every eye gaping on a John Fins wife, every eye gaping on a John Fins wife.
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_ _ _ [Fm] Now John Fins wife was something of a mystery and a towel and a share of sworn secret was
a solemn duty.
I had brass knuckles and a bolo knot over near the bandstand with John Fins wife.
She got perfume, breasts and raven hair [F] sprinkled with wedding confetti's and a gang of garadas
rolled [Fm] giving me stares armed as they were with machetes. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Well, the night through the window was full of lights a-winking and a-watching a John
Fins wife, a-winking and a-watching a John Fins wife.
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_ _ _ _ _ Well, mystery cops were all [Fm] out in the town but they told me I had no trouble there.
They came to the bar in their [F] lumpy suits.
I slipped my hand between the thighs of John Fins wife.
They seemed to be on awake at fives.
_ [Fm] It was a warm and very ferocious night and the room was [F] full of a bloody light.
My eyes moved small and my eyes moved tight as I plotted a near of [Fm] John Fins wife.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] And a John Fin in his snarky suit with his quick black eyes and a flaxen roof and his
piled out teeth and a hobnail boot.
His pistol and pistols in his pockets.
Aim it at me and aim it at his wife.
The band rolled silent, [Cm] no fear in [Fm] my life.
No fear in my guts like tables were.
Cause all I got is brass knuckles and a bolo knife.
And Mayor John Fins wife is all.
_ [C] The three of us and we walk out [Fm] of the hall.
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[F] And now the night brought down upon us [C] all.
You can hear the crickets in the thickets call.
[Fm] Guns didn't flare and guns didn't fire.
And I find a moth bolo knife in the neck of Mayor John Fin.
I took his wretched life.
I'm over by Ben's stand.
Every hand moving on a John Fins wife.
Every hand moving on John Fins wife. _
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[Bb] And John Fins wife _ took [F] all the flowers down _ _ _ [Gm] from her head [Cm] and flew them.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ And the [Bb] flies did _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ buzz around. _ _
Oh [Gm] John _ Fins [Cm] landed upon [F] the ground.
_ _ _ Landed upon the [Bb] ground. _ _ _ _ _
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