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Song title:      Abattoir Blues
Original Album:	 Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus 
                 (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)

Words and Music by Nick Cave
Copyright © 2004 Mute Records
Published by Universal Music Group

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Chords:
F x3321x
G x5543x

[play: | F | G |]  [x2]



VERSE1:
Chords:
F  x3321x
G  x5543x
Am x02210

F                                       G
  The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my car
F                    G
  Drifting down into   the abattoir
Am
  Do you see what I see, dear?
Am                       G
  The air grows heavy. I listen to your breath


VERSE2:
Chords:
F  x3321x
G  x5543x
Am x02210

F                           G
  Entwined together in this culture of death
       Am
Do you see what I see dear?
Am                          G
  Slide on over here let me give you a squeeze
F                                   G
FTo avert this unholy evolutionary   trajectory
        Am
Can you hear what I hear babe?
F                        Am      F
  Does it make you feel afraid?


BRIDGE:
Chords:
Dm xx0231 or x57765

Dm
  Everything's dissolving babe according to plan
The sky is on fire, the dead are heaped across the land
I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed
I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand


[play: | F | G |]  [x2]


VERSE3:
Chords:
F  x33211
G  320033
Am x02210

F                      G
  I kissed you once. I kissed you again
F                              G
  My heart it tumbled like the stock-exchange
       Am
Do you feel what I feel dear?
F                         G
  Mass extinction darling   hypocrisy
F                      G
  These things are not good for me
Am
  Do you see what I see dear?

F                                 G
  The line the God throws down to   you and me
F                    G
  Makes a pleasing geometry
         Am
Shall we leave this place now dear?
F                         Am
  Is there someway out of here?


BRIDGE:
Chords:
Dm xx0231 or x57765

Dm
  I wake with the sparrows and I hurry off to work
The need for validation, babe, gone completely berserk
I wanted to be your Superman but I turned out such a jerk


OUTRO:
Chords:
F  x33211
G  320033
Am x02210

          Am            | F |
I got the abattoir blues
          Am            | F |
I got the abattoir blues
          Am            | F |
I got the abattoir blues
                 F
Right down to my shoes
         G
Abattoir blues...
F          G
  Abattoir blues...

[repeat to fade]