"There She Goes, My Beautiful World"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
2004
This is a pretty easy song, you just go back and forth from Cm and F during all the
verse and bridge parts.
The chorus is the only part that is different, where you play [C G Am F G].
But since I'm anal about this kinda thing, I'll put it out clearly here.
Cm* Cm
e|--x-----3--|
B|--x-----4--|
G|--0-----5--|
D|--1-----5--|
A|--3-----3--|
E|--x-----3--|
x = don't play these strings
-Using my Cm* chord is optional, but it adds some nice, tense subtlety to the verses I
like to use it in.
-I'll put the Capo III chords at the bottom of the tab
Intro: Cm* F Cm* F
Cm* F Cm*
The wintergreen, the juniper
F Cm*
The cornflower and the chicory
F Cm*
All the words you said to me
F Cm
Still vibrating in the air
F Cm
The elm, the ash and the linden tree
F Cm
The dark and deep, enchanted sea
F Cm
The trembling moon and the stars unfurled
F C
There she goes, my beautiful world
C G
There she goes, my beautiful world
Am
There she goes, my beautiful world
F
There she goes, my beautiful world
G Cm F Cm F
There she goes agaaaaaaaaain
Cm* F
John Willmot penned his poetry
Cm* F
riddled with the pox
Cm* F
Nabakov wrote on index cards,
Cm* F
at a lectem, in his socks
Cm F
St. John of the Cross did his best stuff
Cm F
imprisoned in a box
Cm F
And JohnnyThunders was half alive
Cm F
when he wrote Chinese Rocks
Cm F
Well, me, I'm lying here, with nothing in my ears
Cm F
Me, I'm lying here, with nothing in my ears
Cm F
Me, I'm lying here, for what seems years
Cm F
I'm just lying on my bed with nothing in my head
Cm F
Send that stuff on down to me
Cm
Send that stuff on down to me
F
Send that stuff on down to me
C
Send that stuff on down
C G
There she goes, my beautiful world
Am
There she goes, my beautiful world
F
There she goes, my beautiful world
G Cm F Cm F
There she goes agaaaaaaaaain
Cm* F
Karl Marx squeezed his carbuncles
Cm* F
while writing Das Kapital
Cm* F
And Gaugin, he buggered off, man,
Cm F
and went all tropical
Cm F
While Philip Larkin, he stuck it out
Cm F
in a library in Hull
Cm F
And Dylan Thomas died drunk in
Cm F
St. Vincent's hospital
Cm F
I will lie at your feet
Cm
I will kneel at your door
F
I will rock you to sleep
Cm
I will roll on the floor
F
And I'll ask for nothing
Cm
Nothing in this life
F
I'll ask for nothing
Cm
Give me ever-lasting life
Cm F
I just want to move the world
Cm
I just want to move the world
F
I just want to move the world
C
I just want to move
C G
There she goes, my beautiful world
Am
There she goes, my beautiful world
F
There she goes, my beautiful world
G Cm F Cm F
There she goes agaaaaaaaaain
Cm* F
So if you got a trumpet, get on your feet,
Cm* F
brother, and blow it
Cm* F
If you've got a field, that don't yield,
Cm* F
well get up now and hoe it
Cm F
I look at you and you look at me and
Cm F
deep in our hearts babe we know it
Cm F
That you weren't much of a muse,
Cm F
but then I weren't much of a poet
Cm F
I will be your slave
Cm
I will peel you grapes
F
Up on your pedestal
Cm
With your ivory and apes
F
With your book of ideas
Cm
With your alchemy
F Cm
O Come on, Send that stuff on down to me
Cm F
Send that stuff on down to me
Cm
Send that stuff on down to me
F
Send that stuff on down to me
Cm
Send that stuff on down to me
F
Send it all around the world
Cm
Send it all around the world
F
Cause there she goes
C
My beautiful girl
C G
There she goes, my beautiful world
Am
There she goes, my beautiful world
F
There she goes, there she goes
G C
There she goes again
C G
There she goes, my beautiful world
Am
There she goes, my beautiful world
F
There she goes, my beautiful world
G F C
There she goes a----gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain
- If you play with a Capo on the 3rd fret, the chords are:
[Verse: Am D]
[Chorus: A E F#m D E]
