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Song title:      Love Letter
Original Album:	 No More Shall We Part

Words and Music by Nick Cave
Copyright © 2001 Mute Records
Published by Universal Music Group

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
The song seems to be in Eb. So, slap a capo on 3 and play C, G and F shapes.
Chords are relative to capo. Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Notes:
The INTRO is played on piano, which I've tried to transcribe for guitar.

The piano plays in a high register. The F in the 4th bar below ought to be
played x8 10 10 10 8 (counting from the capo). However, this isn't easy to
fret on an acoustic, so you have little choice but to play the open F.

Or you could ditch the capo and play Eb (x68886), Ab (466544) and Bb (688766),
instead of C, F and G respectively.


[play: | C | F |]  [x4]

  C                                F
|-0----------0h1h3/7--8---7---5--|-1------------------------------|
|-1------------------------------|-1----------0h1h3/5--3-------3--|
|-0------------------------------|-2-----------------------5------|
|-2------------------------------|-3------------------------------|
|-3------------------------------|-3------------------------------|
|-3------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  C                                F
|-0----------0h1h3/7--8---10-----|-1------------------------------|
|-1------------------------------|-1----------0h1h3/5--3-------3--|
|-0------------------------------|-2-----------------------5------|
|-2------------------------------|-3------------------------------|
|-3------------------------------|-3------------------------------|
|-3------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  C                                F
|-0---------------0-------0------|-1---------------1-------1------|
|-1---------------1-------1------|-1---------------1-------1------|
|-0---------------0-------0------|-2---------------2-------2------|
|-2---------------2-------2------|-3---------------3-------3------|
|-3---------------3-------3------|-3---------------3-------3------|
|-3---------------3-------3------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  C                                F
|-0---------------0-------0------|-1---------------1-------1------|
|-1---------------1-------1------|-1---------------1-------1------|
|-0---------------0-------0------|-2---------------2-------2------|
|-2---------------2-------2------|-3---------------3-------3------|
|-3---------------3-------3------|-3---------------3-------3------|
|-3---------------3-------3------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


VERSE1:
Chords:
C  332010
F  x33211

C                          F                                   C
  I hold this letter in my hand, a plea, a petition, a kind of prayer
                         F
I hope it does as I have planned, losing her again is more than I can bear
C                                  F                             C
  I kiss the cold, white envelope,   I press my lips against her name
                              F                                   C
Two hundred words. We live in hope. The sky hangs heavy with rain


CHORUS:
Chords:
C  332010
F  x33211
G  320033

C                   F       C                F
  Love letter, love letter,   go get her, go get her
C                   F       C                 G       | F G |
  Love letter, love letter,   go tell her, go tell her


VERSE2:
Chords:
C  332010
F  x33211

C                            F                          C
  A wicked wind whips up the hill, a handful of hopeful words
                        F
I love her and I always will, the sky is ready to burst
C                                  F
  Said something I did not mean to say,
Said something I did not mean to say
C                                  F
  Said something I did not mean to say
                          C
It all came out the wrong way


[repeat CHORUS]


VERSE3:
Chords:
C  332010
F  x33211

C                            F                            C
  Rain your kisses down upon me, rain your kisses down in storms
                               F
And for all who'll come before me in your slowly fading forms
C                           F                               C
  I'm going out of my mind,   will leave me standing in the rain
                    F
with a letter and a prayer, Whispered on the wind


CODA:
Chords:
F  x33211
G  320033
C  332010

G              F   G              F
  Come back to me,   come back to me
G         F            G       C
  O baby, please, come back to me