Jack The Ripper Chords
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.
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