Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (words by T. Springfield)
Song: The Carnival is Over
Album: Kicking Against the Pricks
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D                          A
Say goodbye, my one true lover
            G       A       D
And we'll steal a lover's song
         G  A             F#m     Bm
How it breaks my heart to leave you
          G           A
Now the carnival has gone

        D                  A  A7  A
Oh my love, the dawn is breaking
        G   A              D
And my tears are falling rain
        G   A        F#m  Bm
For the carnival is over
         G  A       D
We may never meet again

         G  A               D
Like a drum my heart was beating
         G    A             F#m
And your kiss was sweet as wine
          G   A             F#m   Bm
But the joys of love are fleeting
       G           Em   A
For Pierrot and Columbine

         D                  A
Now the cloak of night is falling
          G  A           D
This will be our last goodbye
            G  A      F#m   Bm
Though the carnival is over
         G  A           D
I will love you till I die


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transcribed by Benjamin D
ben_denes@hotmail.com