Guitar Tabs, Chords and Lyrics
Update 25:10. 13:00. Site is back up running again. Songbooks are recovered. Woring on getting search back up..



Notice: Undefined index: PATH_INFO in /var/www/chordiepro/chord.pere on line 794

THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS   Nick Cave


style="COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11px;">e: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:56:14 +0200



SONG    : The Kindness Of Strangers
AUTHOR  : Nick Cave
ALBUM   : Murder Ballads (1996)

          ____________________________________

          THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS (Nick Cave)
          ____________________________________


do                      la-               re-
They found Mary Bellows cuffed to the bed
                              sol
With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head
fa     sol  do      sol
O poor Mary Bellows

She'd grown up hungry she'd grown up poor
She left her home in Arkansas
O poor Mary Bellows

She wanted to see the deep blue sea
She travelled across Tennessee
O poor Mary Bellows

She met a man along the way
He introduced himself as Richard Slade
O poor Mary Bellows

Poor Mary thought that she might die
When she saw the ocean for the first time
O poor Mary Bellows

She checked into a cheap little place
Richard Slade carried in her old suitcase
O poor Mary Bellows

"I'm a good girl, sir," she said to him
I couldn't possibly permit you in
O poor Mary Bellows

Shade tipped his hat and winked his eye
And turned away without goodbye
O poor Mary Bellows

She sat on her bed and thought of home
With the sea breeze whistling all alone
O poor Mary Bellows

In hope and loneliness she crossed the floor
And undid the latch on her front door
O poor Mary Bellows

They found her the next day cuffed to the bed
A rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head
O poor Mary Bellows

So mothers keep your girls at home
Don't let them journey out alone
Tell them this world is full of danger
And to shun the company of strangers
O poor Mary Bellows
O poor Mary Bellows

Important: The song above is NOT stored on the Chordie server. The original song is hosted at www.guitaretab.com. Chordie works as a search engine and provides on-the-fly formatting. Chordie does not index songs against artists'/composers' will. To remove this song please click here.

This song is displayed as text-only. Transposing and tuning is only available for chordpro-songs.

Login - add to songbook

SHARE PAGE  



You need to log in to post comments