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Song title:      The Weeping Song
Original Album:  The Good Son	

Words and Music by Nick Cave
Copyright © 1990 Mute Records Ltd.
Published by Universal Music Group

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Chords:
Em 022000
D  xx0232

[play: | Em | D |]


VERSE:
Chords:
Em 022000
D  xx0232

Em              D      Em                      D       Em
Go son, go down to the water and see the women weeping there
Em            D     Em                          D        Em
Then go up into the mountains, the men they are weeping, too.
Em                     D     Em
Father why are all the women weeping?
                      D        Em
They are all weeping for their men
Em                    D         Em
Then whay are all the men there weeping?
                 D       Em
They are weeping back at them


CHORUS:
Chords:
D  xx0232
Em 022000

D         Em              D                Em
This is a weeping song, a song in which to weep
Em            D             Em
While all the men and women sleep
D         Em                 D                Em
This is a weeping song but I won't be weeping long.


[Repeat to fade]