Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (words and music by J. Bundrick)
Song: Muddy Water 
Album: Kicking Against the Pricks
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Cm              G                 Cm
Mary, grab the baby, the river's rising
Eb            Fm             G
Muddy water taking back the land
Cm                       G                      Cm
The old-frame house, she can't take-a one more beating
Fm                G               Cm
Ain't no use to stay and make a stand

Cm                      G                   Cm
Well the morning light shows water in the valley
Eb                   Fm              G
Daddy's grave just went below the line
Cm                 G                     Cm
Things to say, you just can't take em with ya
Fm                       G                Cm
This flood will swallow all you've left behind

Eb                         Bb
Won't be back to start all over
Eb                           G
Cause what I felt before is gone

Cm               G                  Cm
Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water taking back my home
The road is gone, there's just one way to leave here
Turn my back on what I've left below
Shifting land, broken farms around me
Muddy water's changing all I know

It's hard to say just what I'm losing
Ain't never felt so all alone

Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water taking back my home

Won't be back to start all over
Cause what I felt before is gone

Mary, take the child, the river's rising
Muddy water's changing all I know
Muddy water's changing all I know
Lord, this muddy water is taking back my home



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transcribed by Benjamin D
ben_denes@hotmail.com