Chords for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Carny

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_ _ _ _ _ _ No one [Eb] saw the carny go and the [C] weeks [Eb] flew by
_ _ [C] _ [Eb] Until he moved on the show _ [C] [Eb] leaving his caravan [F] behind
[Ab] It [C] _ [Ab] _ was parked [Fm] out on the south east [Ab] ridge And as the company crossed the [Fm] bridge
The first [C] rain fell on [F] the [C] bone dry river [Eb] bed
It shone just so upon the edge _
_ _ [C] _ [Eb] Away, _ [C] [Eb] away, [C] we're [Eb] sad to say
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_ [Ab] [C] Dog Boy, [Fm] Atlas, _ Hoffman, the geeks, the [C] hired [Fm] hands
There was not one among them who did not cast an eye [Ab] behind
In the [C] hope [Cm] that the carny would return to his own kind
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[G] _ [C] _ [Eb] _ _ [C] [Eb] the carny [C] had a [Eb] horse of all skin and bone
A bow backed [C] [Eb] nag that [C] he [Eb] named Sorrow
_ [G] _ [Ab] Now it's [C] buried [Fm] in an _ unmarked grave
Where the old nag was laid in [F] the then _
_ [C] parched meadow
[Gm] And it was the dwarves who were [C] given the task [Eb] of digging the ditch
And laying the nag's carcass in the [C] ground
[Eb] With Boss Bellini waving his smoking pistol round saying
The [Ab] nag is dead, mate.
[C] We [Fm] can't afford to carry dead weight
The whole company's standing [Ab] around not making a [C] sound
[F] And to the dwarves perched on the [C] enclosure gate
[G] The [Cm] boss says, oh the love of Crow Ridge
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_ _ _ _ Everybody [F] _ [Fm] _
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_ [C] [Eb] running for their wagons
[C] Tying [Eb] all the [C] _ [Eb] canvas [Gm] flaps _ [C] down
[Ab] _ Yeah, the mangy [Fm] cats growling in their cages
The bird girl flapping and squawking _ _ in the [Ab] _ [Db] round
[C] _ The whole [Eb]
valley reeking of wet beast
[C] [Eb] Wet beast and rotten hay
[C] Freak [Eb] and brute creation all packed open on their way
[Fm] _ And the three dwarves sitting on the enclosure gate
Moses says to Noah, we should have dug a deeper one
Their grizzled [C] faces like [Db] dying [Cm] moons
Still dirty from their digging
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_ [C] _ the company moved [A] from the valley into higher ground
And the rain beat [C] on the ridge and on the [D] meadow
[G] And on the [Cm] mound until there was nothing left
Nothing at all except the body of sorrow
That rose in time to float upon the surface of [Fm] the _ Soil _ _ _ _ _
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_ [C] _ [Cm] _ _ _ It circled round, first [Eb] one, [C] [Eb] then the others
Flapping blackly _ _ _ _ down
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_ _ [Eb] And [Fm] the rain, it hammered down
And the rain, it hammered down
The rain, it hammered down
And the rain, it hammered
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_ Who _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ fell off their trolley? _ _
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