Henrys Dream (Album)

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  • INTRO:
     
    Capo
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    You can get the rhythm from the record. bssically you play the top chord above (an Fm)
  • and just slide your 4th finger up one fret and back down again in time with the record.
     
    Fm (same pattern as intro)
  •  
    I went out walking the other day
    The wind hung wet around my neck
  • My head it rung with screams and groans
    >From the night I spent amongst her bones
    I past beside the mission house
  • Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend,
    Shrieked and flapped about life after your dead
    Well, I thought about my friend, Michel
  • How they rolled him in linoleum
    And shot him in the neck
    A bloody halo, like a think-bubble
  • Circling his head
    And I bellowed at the firmament
     
  • C
    Looks like the rains are hear to stay
    And the rain pissed down upon me
  •  
    Bb G# G Fm
    And washed me all a - way
  • Saying
     
    Fm
  • Papa won't leave you, Henry
    Papa won't leave you, Boy
    Papa won't leave you, Henry
  • Papa won't leave you, Boy
    Well, the road is long
    And the road is hard
  •  
    C
    And many fall by the side
  • But Papa won't leave you, Henry
     
    C Bb G# G Fm
  • So there ain't no need to cry
     
    Fm
  • And I went on down the road
    He went on down the road
    And I went on down the road
  • He went on down the road
     
    Repeat above for second verse/chorus
  •  
    (at the end of various phrases in this bit Blixa plays two notes
    Bb (3rd string 5th fret) and G# (4th string 6th fret). He puts a lot
  • of vibrato on both notes. You can slot them in where appropriate.
     
    Fm
  • And I came upon a little house
    A little house upon a hill
    And I entered through, the curtain hissed
  • Into the house with its blood-red bowels
    Where wet-lipped women with greasy fists
    Crawled the ceilings and the walls
  • They filled me full of drink
    And led me round the rooms
    Naked and cold and grinning
  • Until everything went black
    And I came down spinning
    I awoke so drunk and full of rage
  • That I could hardly speak
    A fag in a whale-bone corset
    Draping his dick across my cheek
  • And its into the shame
    And its into a guilt
    And its into the fucking fray
  • And the walls ran red around me
    A warm arterial spray
    Saying
  • Papa won't leave you, Henry
    Papa won't leave you, Boy
    Papa won't leave you, Henry
  • Papa won't leave you, Boy
    Well, the night is dark
    And the night is deep
  • And its jaws are open wide
    But Papa won't leave you, Henry
    So there ain't no need to cry
  •  
    Repeat verse/chorus structure over the last verse/chorus.
     
  • This version represents the live seeds version more than the Henry's dream version because the HD
    version has more pronounced keyboard parts which embellish what the guitar does. Still this is
    what the guitarists play believe it or not!!
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    Cm F
    I had a dream
  • D
    I had a dream
    Gm
  • I had a dream
    Cm F Bb
    I had a dream, Joe
  • -------- Gm
    I had a dream, Joe
    Eb D
  • You were standing in the middle of an open road
    Gm
    I had a dream, Joe
  • Your hands were raised up to the sky
    Eb D
    And your mouth was covered in foam
  • Gm
    I had a dream, Joe
    Eb D
  • A shadowy Jesus flitted from tree to tree
    Gm
    I had a dream, Joe
  • Eb D
    And a society of whores stuck needles in an image of me
    Gm
  • I had a dream, Joe
    Eb D
    It was Autumn time and thickly fell the leaves
  • Gm
    And in that dream, Joe
    Eb
  • A pimp in seersucker suit sucked a toothpick
    D Cm
    And pointed his finger at me
  • Cm F
    I had a dream,
    D
  • (I had a dream)
    Gm
    I had a dream,
  • Cm F Bb
    I had a dream, Joe
     
  • Repeat over other verses Choruses.
     
    Intro
  •  
    G# / Gm
    G# Gm
  • All the towers of ivory are crumbling
    G# Gm
    And the swallows have sharpened their beaks
  • G# Bb Eb G#
    This is the time of our great undoing
    Eb G#
  • This is the time that I'll come running
    G# Gm Fm
    Straight to you
  • G#
    For I am captured
    G# Gm Fm
  • Straight to you
    G#
    For I am captured
  • Bb Eb
    One more time
    G# / Eb / G# / Fm / G# / Bb /
  • G# Gm
    The light in our window is fading
    etc.
  •  
    G# Bb Gm G#
    Gone are the days of rainbows
  • G# Bb Gm G#
    Gone are the nights of swinging from the stars
    Eb G#
  • For the sea will swallow up the mountains
    Eb G#
    And the sky will throw thunder-bolts and sparks
  • G# Gm Fm
    Straight at you
    G#
  • But I'll come a-running
    G# Gm Fm
    Straight to you
  • G#
    But I'll come a-running
    Bb Eb
  • One more time
     
    repeat verse pattern over last verse.
  •  
    Riff
     
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    -------2--3^--2--|
    -0--3------------|
  •  
    Em
    Brother, my cup is empty
  • And I haven't got a penny
     
    Am
  • For to buy no more whiskey
     
    Em (Riff - tab)
  • I have to go home
     
    Em
  • I am the captain of my pain
    Tis the bit, the bridle,
    The trashing cane
  •  
    Am
    The stirrup, the harness
  • The whipping mane
     
    Em
  • The pickled eye
    The shrinking brain
    O brother, buy me one more drink
  • I'll explain the nature of my pain
     
    Am
  • Yes, let me tell you once again
     
    Em (Riff)
  • I am the captain of my pain
     
    Rpt over subsequent verse/chorus
  •  
    D
    Christina the Astonishing
  •  
    Gm
    Lived a long time ago
  • She was stricken with a seizure
     
    D
  • At the age of twenty-two
    They took her body in a coffin
     
  • Gm
    To a tiny church in Liege
    Where she sprang up from the coffin
  •  
    D
    Just after the Agnus Dei
  • She soared up to the rafters
     
    Gm
  • Perched on a beam up there
    Cried "The stink of human sin
     
  • Eb D
    The stink Is more that I can bear"
     
  • Eb Bb G# Gm
    Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh Rpt
     
  • Eb Bb G# Gm D
    Oh, oh, ohohoh, ohoh- oh oh, oh
     
  • Repeat over subsequent verses.
     
    (there is actually no Guitar on this track on the record
  • everything is played on a keyboard)
     
     
  • INTRO:
     
     
  • E |---|---|-----------------------------------|x
    B |---|---|---|x------------------------------| Standard Chord tab - numbers relate to fingers
    G |---|---|---|o------------------------------| 'x' means the string isn't played
  • D |---|-*-|---|2------------------------------| 'o' means the string is played 'open'.
    A |---|---|-*-|3------------------------------|
    E |---|---|-----------------------------------|x
  •  
     
    E |---|---|------|x
  • B |---|---|------|x
    G |---|---|------|o
    D |---|---|------|o
  • A |---|---|-*-|3-|
    E |---|---|------|x
     
  • These two chords are 'picked' one string at a time from the A string down to the open G.
    i.e. you pick the three notes in the first chord, remove one finger and pick the three
    notes of the second chord (I will refer to this as the 'C Pattern'). This pattern is repeated over and
  • until the line "oh lord how quickly, they changed their tune' over which you play (with the same 'plucking'
    as before) - I shall call this > the 'F pattern');
     
  •  
    E |---|---|------|x
    B |---|---|------|x
  • G |---|-*-|---|2-|
    D |---|---|------|x
    A |---|---|-*-|3-|
  • E |-*-|---|---|1-|
     
    E |---|---|------|x
  • B |---|---|------|x
    G |---|---|------|o
    D |---|---|------|x
  • A |---|---|-*-|3-|
    E |-*-|---|---|1-|
     
  •  
    Then change back to the first pattern for the beginning of the next piece of lyric.
    i.e.
  •  
    C pattern
     
  • When I first came to town
    All the people gathered round
    They bought me drinks
  •  
     
    F pattern C Pattern
  • Lord, how quickly they changed their tune
     
    rpt over next lyrics;
  •  
    When I first came to town
    People took me round from end to end
  • Like someone may take round a friend
    O how quickly they changed their tune
     
  • Suspicion and dark murmurs surround me
    Everywhere I go they confound me
    As though the blood on my hands
  • Is there for every citizen to see
     
    F
  • O sweet Jesus
    C
    There is no turning back
  • Gm Eb
    There is always one more town
    Cm F
  • A little further down the track
    C
    And from my window, across the tracks
  • I watch the juicers burn their fires
    And in that light
    Their faces leer at me
  • F C
    How I wish they'd just let me be
    C
  • When I first came to town
    Their favours were for free
    Now even the doors of the whores of
  • F C
    this town Are closed to me
     
  • Fm
     
    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
    Dancers writhed and squirmed and then,
  • Came apart and then writhed again
    Like squirming flies on a pin
    In the heat and in the din
  • Yes, in the heat and in the din
    I fell to thinking about brand new wife of mad John Finn
     
  • Well, midnite came and clock did strike
    And in she came, did John Finn's wife
    With legs like scissors and butcher's knives
  • A tattooed breast 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 John Finn's wife
    Yeah, every eye gaping on John Finn's wife
  •  
     
    Gm / Cm / Gm / Cm / Gm / Cm / F
  •  
    Fm
     
  • Now John Finn's wife was something of a mystery
    In a town where to share a sworn secret was a solemn duty
    I had brass knuckles and a bolo knife
  • Over near the bandstand with John Finn's wife
    She got perfumed breasts and raven hair
    Sprinkled with wedding confettis
  • And a gang of garrotters were all giving me stares
    Armed, as they were, with machetes
    And the night through the window was full of lights
  • Winking and awatching at John Finns' wife
    Winking and awatching at John Finns' wife
     
  • Next came the cops, all out on the town
    But it don't look like no trouble there
    As they had for the bar in their lumpy suits
  • And I slip my hand between the things of John Finn's wife
    And they seemed to yawn awake, her things
    It was a warm and very ferocious night
  • The moon full of blood and light
    And my eyes grew small and my eyes grew tight
    As I plotted in the ear of John Finns' wife
  •  
    Gm / Cm / Gm / Cm / Gm / Cm / F
     
  • Fm
    Enter John Finn in his shrunken suit
    With his quick black eyes and black cheroot
  • With his filled-down teeth and a hobnail boot
    And his fists full of pistols in his pockets
    Aiming at me and aiming at his wife
  • The band fall silent fearing for their lives
    And with fear in my guts like tangled twine
    Cause all I got is brass knuckles and a bolo knife
  • And mad John Finns' wife is all
    And the three of us walk out of the hall
     
  • Now the night bore down upon us all
    You could hear the crickets in the thickets call
    And guns did flare and guns did bawl
  • And I planted my bolo knife in the neck
    Of mad John Finn. I took his wretched life
    Now I'm over near the bandstand
  • Every hand moving on John Finns' wife
    Every hand moving on John Finns' wife
     
  •  
    Fm Bb
    And John Finns' wife
  • F
    Took all the flowers down
    Gm
  • >From her hair
    Cm F
    And threw them on the ground
  • Bb
    And the flies did hum
    F
  • And the flies did buzz around
    Gm
    Poor John Finn
  • Cm F
    Lying dead upon the ground
    Bb
  • Lying dead upon the ground
     
    Fm
  • It was the dirty end of winter
    G#
    Along the loom of the land
  • Eb C#
    When I walked with sweet Sally
    C# Fm
  • Hand upon hand
    Fm
    And the wind it bit bitter
  • G#
    For a boy of no means
    Eb C#
  • With no shoes on his feet
    C# Fm
    And a knife in his jeans
  •  
    rpt
     
  • Fm Eb
    O baby please don't cry
    Fm
  • And try to keep
    Eb C#
    Your little hand upon my shoulder
  • Fm
    Now go to sleep
     
  •  
    Gm / / Fm / Gm /
     
  • Gm Fm / Gm
    I got a woman
    Gm Fm Gm
  • SHe rules my house with an iron fist
    Gm Fm/Gm
    I got a woman
  • Gm Fm Gm
    She rules my house with an iron fist
    Dm
  • She screams out Jack the Ripper
    Cm Gm
    Every time I try to give that girl a kiss
  •  
     
     
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