Jesus Alone Chords
Jesus Alone by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, Gm, F, Bb and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verse
G
You fell from the sky
G
Crash landed in a field
G
Near the river Adur
G
Flowers spring from the ground
G
Lambs burst from the wombs of their mothers
G
In a hole beneath the bridge
G
She convalesce, she fashioned masks of clay and twigs
G
You cried beneath the dripping trees
G
Ghost song lodged in the throat of a mermaid
Gm
With my voice
F Gm alt
I am calling you
Verse
G
You're a young man waking
G
Covered in blood that is not yours
G
You're a woman in a yellow dress
G
Surrounded by a charm of hummingbirds
G
You're a young girl full of forbidden energy
G
Flickering in the gloom
G
You're a drug addict lying on your back
G
In a Tijuana hotel room
Gm
With my voice
F Gm alt
I am calling you
Bb
With my voice
C Gm alt
I am calling you
Verse
G
You're an African doctor harvesting tear ducts
G
You believe in God, but you get no special dispensation for this belief now
G
You're an old man sitting by a fire, hear the mist rolling off the sea
G
You're a distant memory in the mind of your creator, don't you see?
Gm
With my voice
F Gm alt
I am calling you
Bb
With my voice
C Gm alt
I am calling you
Bridge
G
Let us sit together until the moment comes
Gm
With my voice
F Gm alt
I am calling you
Bb F Gm alt
Let us sit together in the dark until the moment comes
Gm
With my voice
F Gm alt
I am calling you
Bb
With my voice
C Gm alt
I am calling you
Bb
With my voice
F Gm alt
I am calling you
Bb
With my voice
C Gm alt
I am calling you
Outro
Bb F
Gm alt
Bb C
Gm alt
Gm F
Gm alt
Gm C
Gm alt
Gm F
Gm alt
Gm C
Gm alt
Lead
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