Chords for The sorrowful wife - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

[F] I _ married my wife on the day of the _ eclipse
Our friends _ [Dm] awarded her courage with gifts
[Am] Now as the nights grow longer and the season _ shifts
[G] I look to my sorrowful wife
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[F] Who is [G] quietly tending [Am] her flowers
_ Who [F] is _ [G] quietly tending her
_ The [Am] _
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_ _ _ _ [Am] _ water is high on the beckoning river
And [B] a meadery promise I could not [D] deliver
And [Am] the cry of the birds sends a terrible shiver
[G] Through me and my sorrowful wife
_ _ Who [F] is shifting [G] the furniture [Am] round _ _
Who [F] is shifting [G] the furniture [Am]
round
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_ _ [Am] _ we sit beneath the knotted yew
And the [B] blue bells bop-bop around our shoes
And [Am] the task of remembering those tell-tale clues
_ [G] Goes to [Bm] my sorrowful [G] wife
_ Who [F] is counting [G] the days on [Am] her finger
Who is counting [G] the days on her
Come [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Am] on, help me baby
_ _ Come [Dm] on _ now
_ _ Come on [Am] and help me baby
_ I _
[Dm] was a _ _ _ _ blind
The [F] grassy groves low and high
[G] Squished right up to the sky
[A] White clouds roll on [D] by
Come on now _ and [Am] help me baby
_ _ I [Dm] was _ blind _ _ _
I [Am] was a fool _ baby
_ _ I [Dm] was _ _ _ blind
_ [G] A [F] loose wind last night [G] blew down
Black trees bent to the ground
[Am] Their blossoms made such a [Dm] sound
That I could not even hear _ myself [Am] think baby
_ _ _ I [Dm] was _ blind
_ _ I [Am] was a fool baby
_ _ I was [Dm] a blind fool _ baby
I was [Am] a fool baby _ _ _
I [Dm] was blind baby _ _
I [Am] was a fool baby _ _
_ I [Dm] was a blind fool baby _
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_ _ _ Blind [Dm] _ _ _
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[Am] _ baby _ _ _ _
[Dm] I'm blind baby
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