Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Song: Rye Whiskey Album: Good Songs (French promo CD) ----------------------------------- Intro: E------------0--0-0-0-------------0-0--0-0--0--- A---------0--3--3h5p0--0--0--0----0h3--3-3--5--- D---0--2---------------2--0--0------------------ G----------------------------------------------- B----------------------------------------------- E----------------------------------------------- E--0--0--0--0--0------------------------------------- A--5--5--3--0--0--0--0-----------0--0-------------------- D-----------------2--0--0--0--0--0--2--------------- G-----------------------0--0--2-------------------- B----------------------------------------------- E----------------------------------------------- G Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds Em I know you most of all D You've robbed my poor pockets C G of silver and gold And Whiskey, you villain, you've been my down-fall You've cuffed and you've kicked me but I loved you of old G Oh Whiskey, Rye Whiskey Em Whiskey I cried D If I don't get rye Whiskey C G I surely will die Well I go yonder mountain and build me a still And I send you a gallon for a five dollar bill Well it's beefcake when I'm hungry, Whiskey when I'm dry And it's greenbacks when I'm hard off and hell when I die If the sea were made of Whiskey and I was a duck I'd swim to the bottom and never come up Oh, but the sea ain't made of Whiskey and I ain't a duck So I'll play Jack Of Diamonds and trust on my luck --------------------------- transcribed by SixGunSaint bdenes@mnsi.net