Jack The Ripper Chords

KeyGm Capo3st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays622

Jack The Ripper by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Gm with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords Em, Dm, Bm and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Intro: Em Em Em Dm (x5) 


Em            Dm 
   I got a woma-ha-han 
Em                          Dm 
   She rules my house with an iron 
   Em           Dm   Em        Dm 
   Fist (yeah-eah-eah,    yeah-eah-eah) 
Em            Dm 
   I got a woma-ha-han 
Em                          Dm 
   She rules my house with an iron 
   Em           Dm   Em        Dm 
   Fist (yeah-eah-eah,    yeah-eah-eah) 
       Bm                         
   She screams out Jack the Ripper 
Am                              
   Every time I try to give that girl 
     Em           Dm       Em           Dm 
   A kiss (yeah-eah-eah), oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 


Em                   Dm 
   Well, I got a wo-ho-homan 
Em                          Dm 
   She strikes me down with a fist of 
   Em           Dm       Em           Dm 
   Lead (yeah-eah-eah), oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 
Em                  Dm 
   Well, I got a woma-ha-han 
Em                          Dm 
   She strikes me down with a hand of 
   Em           Dm   Em        Dm 
   Lead (yeah-eah-eah,    yeah-eah-eah) 
          Bm                          
   Oh, we bed in a bucket of butcher's knives 
Am                       
   I awake with a hatchet hanging 
   Em                     Dm   Em        Dm 
   Over my head (yeah-eah-eah,    yeah-eah-eah) 


Em                               Dm 
   Well, you know the story of the viper 
Em                         Dm 
   It's long and lean with a poison 
   Em            Dm       Em           Dm 
   Tooth (yeah-eah-eah), oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 
             Em                        Dm 
   Well, you know the story of the viper 
Em                 Dm 
   It's long,   it's lean 
Em                                   Dm   Em        Dm 
   It's got a poison tooth (yeah-eah-eah,    yeah-eah-eah) 
                 Bm                    
   Well, they're hissing under the floorboards 
Am                        
   Hanging down in bunches from 
      Em           Dm       Em           Dm 
   My roof (yeah-eah-eah), oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 


Em                   Dm 
   Well, I got a wo-ho-homan 
Em                                    Dm 
   She just hollers what she wants from where she's 
   Em         Dm       Em           Dm 
   At (yeah-eah-eah), oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 
Em                   Dm 
   Well, I got a wo-ho-homan 
Em                                    Dm 
   She just hollers what she wants from where she 
   Em         Dm       Em           Dm 
   Is (yeah-eah-eah), oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 
       Bm                         
   She screams out Jack the Ripper 
Am                              
   Every time I try to give that girl 
Em           Em      Dm       Em           Dm 
   A kiss (yeah-eah-eah), oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 
      Em           Dm 
   Oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 
        Em           Dm 
     Oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 
      Em           Dm 
   Oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 
        Em           Dm 
     Oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 
      Em           Dm 
   Oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 
        Em           Dm 
     Oh yeah (yeah-eah-eah) 
      Em 
   Oh yeah 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante