From Her To Eternity tab by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Tabs

Song: From Her to Eternity
Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Album: From Her to Eternity
Year: 1984
Tabber: [email protected]
Submitted by: Linda

Basically the whole song is in Cm.
I've decided to add the piano breaks and to write some bass lines... when it changes.
I hope it helps in this messy but wild track!
And... no I didn't catch Blixa's guitar parts


Bass on verse:
G-----------------------------------|
D-----------------------------------|
A--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1--|
E-----------------------------------|

Verse 1 (on all verses, play the bass and the piano strumms the C majorC note)
C minorCm
I wanna tell you about a girl
You know, she lives in room 29
Why that's the one right up top a mine


Verse 2
C minorCm
Oh I hear her walking
Walking barefoot cross the floor-boards
All through this lonesome night
I hear her crying too.
Hot tears come splashing down
Leaking through the cracks,
Down upon my face.
Catch'em in my mouth!
Catch'em in my mouth!
Catch'em in my mouth!
Ah catch'em in my mouth!
Ah Walk and cry! Walk and cry!
Ah Walk and cry! Ah Walk and cry!


Piano riff at 1:13:
e------------|-----------|--2-1------|     |--2-2-2-2-2-2--|
b---2-1------|--4-3------|------4-3--|     |---------------|
g-------1----|------3-0--|-----------|x2 then: |---------------|
d---------3--|--1-0------|--4-3-1-0--|     |--4-4-4-4-4-4--|
a---4-3------|------1----|-----------|     |---------------|
e-------4-1--|--------3--|-----------|     |---------------|

Chorus
C minorCm
From her to eternity!
From her to eternity!
From her to eternity!


Bass on the chorus:
G---------------------|------7---5---4-----|
D---------------------|----5---6---5---5---|
A---3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3---|--------------------|
E---------------------|--8-----------------|
 play it 5 times then:


Verse 3
C minorCm
I read her diary on her sheets
Scrutinizing every little bit of dirt
Tore out a page a,nd stuff it inside my shirt
I fled outta the window,
And shinning it down the vine
Outta her nightmare into mine!
Mine! Mine!


Piano riff at 2:13:
e------------|-----------|--2-1--|
b---2-1------|--4-3------|-------|
g-------1----|------3-0--|-------|
d---------3--|--1-0------|--4-3--|
a---4-3------|------1----|-------|
e-------4-1--|--------3--|-------|


Chorus
C minorCm
From her to eternity!
From her to eternity!
From her to eternity!
Cry! Cry! Cry!
Cry! Cry! Cry!


Piano loop at 2:35:
e----------|
b---1------|
g-----1----|
d-------3--|
a---3------|
e-----4-1--| play it 8 times


Verse 4
C minorCm
She's wearing those blue stockins I bet
And standing like this with my ear to the ceiling
Listen I know it must sound absurd
But I can hear the most melancholy sound I ever heard
Walk and cry! Walk and cry!


Piano riff at 2:50:
e------------|-----------|--2-1------|-----------|
b---2-1------|--4-3------|------4-3--|--2-1------|
g-------1----|------3-0--|-----------|------1----|
d---------3--|--1-0------|--4-3-1-0--|--------3--|
a---4-3------|------1----|-----------|--4-3------|
e-------4-1--|--------3--|-----------|------4-1--|


Chorus
C minorCm
From her to eternity!
From her to eternity!


Verse 5
C minorCm
Ah tell me why. Ah tell me why.
Oh Why, why, why?
O tell me why and don't tell me lie!
Why the ceiling still shakes, shake, shakes, shakes!
And all the fixtures turn to serpents and snakes?


Verse 6
C minorCm
This desire to possess her is a wound
And it's nagging at me like a shrew
But I know, that to possess her
Is therefore not to desire her.
Oh oh oh then ya know, that little girl
Would just have to go! Go! Go!


Piano riff at 3:45:
e------------|-----------|--2-1------|--5-3-0-1--|--2-2-2-2-2-2--|
b---2-1------|--4-3------|------4-3--|-----------|---------------|
g-------1----|------3-0--|-----------|--2-0------|---------------|
d---------3--|--1-0------|--4-3-1-0--|------2-3--|--4-4-4-4-4-4--|
a---4-3------|------1----|-----------|-----------|---------------|
e-------4-1--|--------3--|-----------|-----------|---------------|


Chorus
C minorCm
From her to eternity!
From her to eternity!


Outro

4:22 fade in on:
e------------|--2-1------|--5-3-0-1--|--2-2-2-2--|
b---4-3------|------4-3--|-----------|-----------|
g-------3-0--|-----------|--2-0------|-----------| then back on the whole riff
d---1-0------|--4-3-1-0--|------2-3--|--4-4-4-4--|
a-------1----|-----------|-----------|-----------|
e---------3--|-----------|-----------|-----------|


4:31
e------------|-----------|--2-1------|--5-3-0-1--|--2-2-2-2--|
b---2-1------|--4-3------|------4-3--|-----------|-----------|
g-------1----|------3-0--|-----------|--2-0------|-----------|
d---------3--|--1-0------|--4-3-1-0--|------2-3--|--4-4-4-4--| play it 4 times
a---4-3------|------1----|-----------|-----------|-----------|
e-------4-1--|--------3--|-----------|-----------|-----------|


Last time: 5:19
e------------|-----------|--2-1------|--5-3-0-1--|--2-2-2-2-2-2--||
b---2-1------|--4-3------|------4-3--|-----------|---------------||
g-------1----|------3-0--|-----------|--2-0------|---------------||
d---------3--|--1-0------|--4-3-1-0--|------2-3--|--4-4-4-4-4-4--||
a---4-3------|------1----|-----------|-----------|---------------||
e-------4-1--|--------3--|-----------|-----------|---------------||