The Curse Of Millhaven Chords by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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_ [A] I live in a [Am] town called Millhaven, 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 [Am] turn 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.
All God's children, [Am] they all gotta _ die. _ _ _
_ My name is Loretta, but I prefer Lottie.
I'm closing in on my fifteenth [A]
year.
If you think that you've [Dm] seen a pair of eyes more green, then you sure haven't seen them [Am] around here.
Well, [G] my hair is a yeller, and I'm always a-comin'.
La [C] la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] My mama told me that we [Am] all got to _ die. _ _ _
You must have heard about the curse of Millhaven.
How last Christmas Bill Blakey's little boy [D] didn't come home.
They found him the next week up in One Mile Creek, with his head bashed in and his [Am] pockets
full of stones.
Well, [G] just imagine all the wailin' and moanin'.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Even Bill Blakey's boy, [Am] he had to die. _ _ _ _
Then Professor O'Rye from Millhaven High found nailed to his door his [A] prize, a wooden
terrier.
The next day the old fool brought little Byko to school, and we all had to watch as he buried her.
Well, as [G] he overshadowed Byko, and all the tears flowing.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Even God's little creatures, 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 Joe [D] was found in the fountain of the [Am] mayor's residence.
Well, if [G] they can really get a small town going.
La [C] la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Even God's children, [Am] they had to die.
_ _ _ _ _ Then a cruel twist of fate.
[A] Old Mrs.
Colgate was stabbed, but the job was not complete.
Well, the last thing she said before the cops pronounced her dead was,
My [Dm] killer is Loretta, and she [A] lives across the street.
Oh, [G] twenty cops burst through my door without even phoning.
La [C] la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
The [Dm] young ones and the old ones, they [Am] all got to die. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Yes, it is I, Lottie, the curse of Millhaven.
I've struck horror in the heart of this town.
Like my eyes ain't green and my hair ain't yellow.
It's more like the other way around.
I got a [G] pretty little mouth underneath all the [C] foaming.
La la la la la, la la la la la.
[A] Sooner or later, [Am] we all got to die.
_ _ _ _ Since I was no bigger than a weevil, they've been saying I was evil.
That if the end was a boot, then I'd [Dm] fit it.
That I'm a wicked young lady, but I've been trying hard lately.
Oh, fuck it, I'm a monster, I [Am] admit it.
Well, [G] it makes me so mad that my blood starts to go [C] in.
La la la la [Am] la, la la la la la.
[Dm]
Mama always told me that we all got to _ die.
_ _ _ Well, yeah, I drowned the Bailey kid, stabbed Mrs.
Colgate, I admit.
Dipped that handyman with his circular saw [A] in his garden shed.
But I never crucified little Michael, that was from Junior High, school [Dm] cycles.
Stinky bohun and his friend with [Am] a pumpkin-sized head.
[G] I've singed a lot now that you've got me going.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm]
All God's children have [Am] all got to die.
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_ _ _ _ _ Then there are all of the others, all our [A] sisters and brothers you assume were accidents best [Dm] forgotten.
_ Recall the children who broke through the ice on Lake Tahoe.
Everyone assumed the warning signs and followed [Am] them to the bottom.
[G] Well, they're underneath the house where I do quite a bit of snowing.
[C]
La la la la la, la la la la la.
[Dm]
Even 20 little [Am] children, now they had to die.
_ _ _ _ And the fire [E] in 91 that raised the Bella Vista [A] slum, that was the biggest shit fight this country's ever seen.
Insurance companies ruined landlords, getting sued off for the wee little girl with a can of gasoline.
_ [G] Those flames, they roared when the wind started blowing.
[C]
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Well, the rich man and the poor [Am] man, they all got to die.
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_ _ [A] _ _ Well, I confess to all these crimes and they [Am] put me on trial.
I was laughing when they took me [D] away _ to the asylum in an old black Mariah.
Well, it ain't home, but you know it's better than jail.
_ [G] It ain't such a bad old place to have a home in.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
All God's children, they all got to die. _
_ _ _ Now I got shrinks that [A] will not rest with their endless Rorschach tests.
I keep telling them that I think they're out to [Dm] get me.
They ask me if I feel remorse, and I answer why I course.
[D] There's so much more I could have done if they'd let me.
So is [G]
Rorschach and Prozac and everything is groovy.
[C] La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] Well, all God's children, [Am] they all got to die.
[C]
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm] I'm happy as a lark now and [Am] everything is fine.
_ [C]
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm]
Everything is groovy, everything is fine.
_ [C]
La la la la la, [Am] la la la la la.
[Dm]
Well, all God's children, they got to die. _