Chords for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Needle Boy

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_ [Fm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ At the turn of the century I did many things to protect myself.
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_ [C] I did many things to protect myself. _ _
_ _ _ _ I made myself a needle boy.
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I hid him in a closet.
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[C] I made myself a money man. _ _
_ [Fm] _ _ [C] I hid him underneath a mattress.
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [C] Then I made myself a spider child. _ _ _
_ _ I put him in a matchbox. _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ I forged myself a golden statuette.
_ _ I [C] wrapped him up in a hello magazine and hid him in [Fm] a wall safe.
[C] _ _ _ Finally I made myself a spade girl.
I _ put her in [G] a garden shed.
[Fm] _ All to [C] protect myself you see.
From [G] the demon that [Fm] was coming from the east [C] or _ _ from the [Dm] west.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [C] Then I sat on the rooftop and I [Dm] waited.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And when at last the demon came from the [Fm] east or from the [C] west.
_ _ _ Then awoke me from my [Fm] sleep.
_ _ _ _ Then awoke me to a particular point of view. _ _
_ And the needle boy stuck him in the eye.
_ _ _ The money man choked him with coins. _ _ _
_ Spider child [D] bit him on the [C] ankle.
_ _ _ The statuette [Fm] crashed down [C] on his head.
_ _ [C] And the [Fm] spade girl buried [C] him underneath the _ _ house.
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_ _ _ _ [Dm] And I [Bb] danced on the [C] rooftop.
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[Fm] I danced on [C] the rooftop. _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [Fm] I [C] danced to the western [Dm] world.
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_ [C] I danced to the [G] western _
_ [Fm] world.
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