Chords for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Curse of Millhaven

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_ [Am] I lived in a town called New Haven and it's small and it's mean and [Dm] it's cold
but if you come around just as the sun goes down [A] you can watch the whole thing turn [Am] to gold.
[G] It's around then that I used to go roaming [C] la la la la la la [Am] la la la [Dm] la la la la la
Oh God's children [Am] they all gotta _ die. _ _ _
_ My name is Loretta but I prefer Lottie I'm closing in on my [D] 15th year.
If you think that you've seen [Dm] a pair of eyes more green then you sure haven't seen them [Am] around here.
Well [G] my hair is a yatter and I'm always a comb [C] and la la la la la [Am] la la la la la la la
[Dm] My mother told me that we [Am] all got to die. _ _ _
_ You must have heard about the curse of New Haven.
How last Christmas Bill Blakey's little boy didn't come home.
They found him the next week up in one mile creek with his head bashed in and his pockets
full of stones.
[G] Well just imagine all the way the moaning [C] and la la la la la [Am] la la la la la la.
[A] Bill Blakey's [Am] boy he had to die. _ _ _ _
Then Professor O'Rye from Mill Haven High found Neil to his door his [A] prize winning terrier.
The next day the old fool brought little Michael to school and we all had to [Am] watch as he buried her.
Well [G] as he would see that Michael had all the tears flowing [C] la la la la la [Am] la la la la la
[Dm] Well even God's little creatures [Am] they had to die. _ _ _ _
Our little town fell into a state of shock. _
A lot of people were saying things that [Dm] made little sense.
The next thing you know the head of handyman [D] Joe was found in the fountain of [Am] the mayor's residence.
[G] Well Valve they can really get a small town going [C] la la la la [Am] la la la la la la la.
[Dm] Even God's children [Am] they had to _ _ _ die.
_ Then a cruel [E] twist of fate.
Old Mrs.
Colgate was stabbed but the job [A] was not complete.
[D] Well the last thing she said before the cops pronounced her dead [Dm] was my killer is Loretta
[Am] and she lives across the street.
Oh [G] twenty cops burst through my door without even toning.
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_ _ _ Well you all tell him the Bailey kid stabbed Mrs.
Colgate I admit.
He did the handyman with his circular [A] saw in his garden shed.
But I never crucified little Fico that was between [Dm] high school cycles.
Stinky bohun and his friend [Am] with a pumpkin sized head.
[G] Our sins are the lot now that you got me [C] going.
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All God's [Am] children have all got to die. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Then there are all of the others all the [A] sisters and brothers you assume were accidents best [Dm] forgotten.
_ Recall the children who broke through the ice on Lake Tahoe.
Everyone assumed a woman signed and [Am] followed them to the bottom.
[G] Well there's an underneath the house where I do quite a bit of snowing.
[C] La la la la, [Am] la la la la [Dm] Even 20 little [Am] children, now they had to die _
_ _ _ _ [E] And the fire in 91 that raised the Bella Vista slum
That was the biggest shit fight this [Dm] country's ever [A] seen
Insurance companies ruined [D] land, lawyers getting sued
All because of a wee little girl with [E] a can of gasoline
[G] Those flames really roared when the wind started blowing
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La la la la, [Am] la la la la [Dm] Well the rich man and the poor [Am] man, they all gotta _ _ [A] die _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Well I confess to all these crimes and they [Am] put me on trial
I was 11 when they took [Dm] me away
Off to the asylum in an old black Mariah
Well it ain't home but you know it's better than [A] jail
_ [G] It ain't such a bad old place to have me home [C] in
La la la la, [Am] la la la la Well all God's children, they all gotta die _
_ _ _ [G] Now I got [A] strength that will not rest with their endless Rorschach tests
I keep telling them that I think they're out [Dm] to get me
They ask me if I feel remorse, [D] and I answer why of course
There's so much more I could have done if they'd [Am] let me
So is [G]
Rorschach and Prozac and everything is groovy
[C] La la la la, [Am] la la la la [Dm] Well all God's children, [Am] they all gotta die
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La la la la, [Am] la la la la [Dm] I'm happy as a lock [Em] now, and everything is fine
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It's groovy, [Am] and it's fine
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La la la la, [Am] la la la la [Dm]
Well all God's children, [A] they gotta [Am] die