Papa Won't Leave You Henry chords by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
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Verse 1:
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I went out walking the other day
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The heat hung wet around my neck
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My head it rung with screams and groans
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 From the night I spent amongst her bones
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And I passed beside the mission house
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Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend
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Shrieked and flapped about life after your dead
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Well, I thought about my friend, Michel
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How they rolled him in linoleum
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And shot him in the neck
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A augmentedA bloody halo, like a think-bubble
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Circling his head
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And I bellowed at the firmament
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Looks like the rains are here to stay
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And the rain p**sed down upon me
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And washed me all away

Saying:


Chorus:
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Well the road is long

And the road is hard
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And a many fall by the side
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Well Papa won't leave you, Henry
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So there ain't no need to cry

Post-Chorus:
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And I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
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Oh yeah, I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)


Verse 2:
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Well, the moon it looked exhausted
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Like something you should pity
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Spent an age spotted
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Above the sizzling wires of the city
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Well, it reminded me of her face
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And her bleached and hungry eyes
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Her hair was like a curtain
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Falling open with the laughter
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And closing with the lies
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And the ghost of her still lingers on
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Though she's passed through me

And is gone
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Well the slum dogs, they are barking
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And the rain children on the streets
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And the tears that we will weep today
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Will all be washed away
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By the tears we weep today, we'll weep again tomorrow


Chorus:
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Well the road is long

And the road is hard
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And a many fall by the side
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Well Papa won't leave you, Henry
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So there ain't no need to cry


Post-Chorus:
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And I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
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Oh yeah, I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)


Interlude:
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Verse 3:
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And I came upon a little house
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A augmentedA little house upon a hill
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And I entered through and the curtain hissed
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Into the house with its blood-red bowels
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Where wet-lipped women with greasy fists
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Crawled the ceilings and the walls
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And they filled me full of drink
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And they led me round the rooms
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Naked and cold and grinning
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Until everything went black
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And I came down spinning
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I awoke so drunk and full of rage
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That I could hardly speak
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A augmentedA man in a whalebone corset
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Draping his arm across my cheek
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Well its into the shame

And its into a guilt
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And its into the stupid fray
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And the walls ran red around me
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Saying:


Chorus:
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Well, the night is dark

And the night is deep
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And its jaws are open wide
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Yeah well, Papa won't leave you, Henry
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So there ain't no need to cry


Post-Chorus:
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And I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
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Oh yeah,I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
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Yeah, woah, woah (woah, woah, woah, woah)


Verse 4:
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It's the rainy season where I'm living
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Death comes leaping out of every doorway
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Wasting you for money, for your clothes

And for your nothing
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Entire towns being washed away
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Favelas exploding on inflammable spillways
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And the lynch-mobs, death squads, babies being born without brains
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The mad heats and the relentless rains
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Well if you stick your arm into that hole
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It comes out sheared off to the bone
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And with her kisses bubbling on my lips
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I swiped the rain and nearly missed
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And then I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)


Chorus:
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Papa won't leave you, Henry
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Papa won't leave you, Boy
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Well, the road is long

And the road is hard
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And many fall by the side
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Well then, Papa won't leave you, Henry
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So there ain't no need to cry


Post-Chorus:
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And I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)
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Oh yeah, I went on down the road
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(He went on down the road)


Outro:
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Yeah, bent Beneath my heavy load
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(Under his heavy load)
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Yeah, I went on down the road
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Oh woah ,woah (woah, woah)
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Oh woah ,woah (woah, woah)
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Yeah, woah ,woah (woah, woah)
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And I went on down that road