I hold this letter in my hand A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer I hope it does as I have planned Losing her again is more than I can bear I kiss the cold, wh...

There she stand, this lovely creature There she stand, there she stands With her hair full of ribbons And green gloves on her hands So I asked this lovely creat...

There's a devil waiting outside your door (How much longer) There's a devil waiting outside your door It is bucking and braying and pawing at the floor And he's...

Last night I lay trembling The moon it was low It was the end of love Of misery and woe Then suddenly above me Her face buried in light Came a vision of beauty...

Nick covered this in a segment in September Songs: A Tribute to Kurt Weill See the shark with teeth like razors And he wears them in his face And Macheath has ...

Mister frog went a-courting and he did ride Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm Mister frog went a-courting and he did ride A sword and pistol by his side Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm He went do...

Nick performed this for the Italian film Mojo, and it is available on a CD called Soho They call him Joe The Dragon He's on the water wagon He's got that look ...

I have a friend in you, oh Mr Clarinet You make me laugh, and then cry like the song of the clarinet Marry me, marry me alive O I put on my coat of trumpets Wil...

(J Bundrick) Mary, grab the baby, the river's rising Muddy water taking back the land The old-frame house, she can't take-a one more beating Ain't no use to st...

Well ah jumpt! and fled this fucken heap on doctored wings Mah flailin pinions, with splints and rags and crutches! (Damn things nearly hardly flap) Canker upon...

One morn I awakened A new sun was shining The sky was a Kingdom All covered in blood The moon and the stars Where the troops that lay conquered Like fruit left ...

Nick the stripper hideous to the eye hideous to the ee he's a fat little insect a fat little insect and OOOOOOHHHH! Here we go again Nick the stripper dances o...

I've searched the holy books I tried to unravel the mystery of Jesus Christ, the saviour I've read the poets and the analysts Searched through the books on huma...

One morn I awakened A new sun was shining The sky was a Kingdom All covered in blood The moon and the stars Where the troops that lay conquered Like fruit left ...

I am tall and I am thin Of an enviable height And I've been known to be quite handsome From a certain angle and a certain light Well I entered into O'Malley's S...

Oh happy day, oh happy day When Jesus washed, oh when He washed When my Jesus washed, He washed my sins away Oh happy day He taught me how to walk, fight and p...

I've searched the holy books I tried to unravel the mystery of Jesus Christ, the saviour I've read the poets and the analysts Searched through the books on huma...

Here I sleep the morning through Until the call to prayer awakes me And there is nothing to do but rise And follow the day wherever it takes me I stand at the w...

From English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Sharp Collected from Mary Wilson and Mrs Townley, Kentucky, 1917 Once there was a little tailor boy Abo...

From the Current '93 album All the Pretty Horsies The rivers of Babylon flow, and fall, and carry awayJesus is alone on earth, not merely with no one to feel an...

Erik wrote: "The theme is similar to the Nick's song New Morning Note also that the line 'There'll be no sadness, no sorrow' also is in New Morning Finally, the...

People just ain't no good I think that's well understood You can see it everywhere you look People just ain't no good We were married under cherry trees Under b...

(l,m) Nick Cave (p) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ( Henry's Dream [Mute, 1992] ) I went out walking the other day The wind hung wet around my neck My head i...

Plain gold ring on her finger she wore It was where everyone could see It belonged to someone, but not me On her hand she wore a plain gold ring Plain gold rin...

They're working us like dogs around here 'Cause pleasure is the boss And I'm the happiest slave alive round here 'Cause pleasure is the boss And nothing is safe...

(S MacGowan) I've been loving you a long time Down all the years, down all the days And I've cried for all your troubles Smiled at your funny little ways We w...

Take a litle walk to the edge of town Go across the tracks Where the viaduct looms, like a bird of doom As it shifts and cracks Where secrets lie in the border ...

Whoooahh! Bite! Whoooah! Bite! Release the bats! Release the bats! Don't tell me that it doesn't hurt a hundred fluttering in your skirt don't tell me that it d...

The street is very wide and I can't see across it my house isn't clear to me the cars move in between Chorus And I say: Question when is a door not a door??? a...

The street is very wide and I can't see across it my house isn't clear to me the cars move in between Chorus And I say: Question when is a door not a door??? a...

When I get home, I'm gunna clean up my house When I get home, I'm gunna kick out that mouse When I get home, I'm gunna put things in order but right now, right ...

When I get home, I'm gonna clean up my house When I get home, I'm gonna kick out that mouse When I get home, I'm gonna put things in order But right now, right ...

Just running scared, each place we go So afraid, that he might show Yeah, running scared, what would I do If he came back and wanted you? Just running scared,...

Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds, I know you most of all You've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold And Whiskey, you villain, you've been my down-fall Y...

I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when l'm dry, If the hard times don't kill me, I'll lay down and die Rye whisky, rye whisky, Rye whisky, I cry, If you don...

[As sung by Mick Harvey; Nick's live versions deviate from this] Credits: Humphreys/Lovett/Richards/Lynch/Anderson/LPA I look at you in your sad dark eyes And ...

Down the road I look and there runs Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherries We go down to the river where the willows weep Take a naked root for a lovers seat ...

I climbed the hill, lay in the grass A little dark-eyed girl drifted past She said all the best is come, it could not last And the worst, it has come true Her ...

Born of the river, Born of its never-changing, never-changing murky water Huck standing like a Saint, upon its deck If ya wanna catch a Saint, then bait ja hook...

O say goodbye to the little girl tree O you know that I must say goodbye To the little girl tree This wall I built around you Is made out of stone-lies O little...

Well, I lived with one Well, I lived with one, I lived with two, I even lived with a third I wanna tell you about number one He was a miserable shitwringing tur...

This is a dead letter tale If I could make this print talk You made a deep mark/deep mark on me and only saints say such things as those so I slid under the flo...

Once she lay open like a road Carbed apart the madness that I stumbled from But she fell away She fell away Shed me like a skin She fell away Left me holding ev...

She passed by my window Her eyes were all aglow And bent to pick her glove she'd dropped From the bright and brittle snow Nature had spoken it in the Spring Wi...

I've been contemplating suicide, but it really doesn't suit my style, so I think I'll just act bored instead who can take (alt: And Contain) the blood I would'v...

White dress, torture in disguise, pointing flashlight right into my eyes Sharp pain every single night - every day I fight a hopeless fight Look, over thirty y...

I stuck a six inch gold blade inside the head of a girl she: lying through her teeth him: lying on his back hands of this one,hands off she cried grinning at me...

(Newbury, Folger) Yesterday the sun was shining but you're finding the sun it Don't shine all the time A winter day suddenly came your way And you ran into you...

Lover, lover, goodbye So slowly goes the night I trace the print of your body with my hand Like the map of some forbidden land I trace the ghosts of your bones ...

Something's gotten hold of my heart Keeping my soul and my senses apart Something's gotten into my life Cutting its way through my dreams like a knife You're tu...

Have mercy on me, sir Allow me to impose on you I have no place to stay And my bones are cold right through I will tell you a story Of a man and his family And ...

Three traditional versions of the song from Murder Ballads Nick's version is also available Further details (and the actual book Nick edited from) are also avai...

It was back in '32 when times were hard He had a Colt 45 and a deck of cards Stagger Lee He wore rat-drawn shoes and an old Stetson hat Had a '28 Ford, had paym...

Hey hey I am the stow-a-way Hey hey I am the stow-a-way My girl turned blue as an iceberg do And me I'm totally shipwrecked over her Baby baby don't blow away ...

All the towers of ivory are crumbling And the swallows have sharpened their beaks This is the time of our great undoing This is the time that I'll come running ...

Stranger than kindness Bottled light from hotels Spilling everything Wet hand from the volcano Sobers your skin Stranger than Kindness You caress yourself And g...

Sugar Sugar Sugar That man is bad The road he drives you down O sugar its a drag That road it twists That road is crossed Its down that road A lot of little gi...

Sunday's got a slave Monday's got one too Sunday's got a slave Monday's got one too Our sufferings are countless Our pleasures are motley few Spend all day digg...

Sugar Sugar Sugar That man is bad The road he drives you down O sugar its a drag That road it twists That road is crossed Its down that road A lot of little gi...

Quixanne, ah'm in its grip Quixanne, ah'm in its grip Sinken in the mud Patron-saint of the Bog They cum with boots of blud Wit pitchfawk and with clu Chantin o...

Come over here, babe It ain't that bad I don't claim to understand The troubles that you've had But the dogs you say they fed you to Lay their muzzles in your l...

There was a thick set man with frog eyes who was standing by the door and a little bald man with wing-nut ears was waiting in the car Well Robert Moore passed t...

Nick performed this for the Italian film Mojo, along with Gallon Drunk and it is available on a CD called Soho Now it begins, now that you're gone Needles and ...

Luck kissed my brow and held me close Said, ''I can no longer stay My brother will watch over you While I'm gone away" "You two will get on fine," he said But ...

(T Springfield, F Farian) Say goodbye, my one true lover And we'll steal a lover's song How it breaks my heart to leave you Now the carnival has gone Oh my lo...

And no-one saw the carny go And the weeks flew by Until they moved on the show Leaving his caravan behind It was parked out on the south east ridge And as the c...

I live in a town called Millhaven And it's small and it's mean and it's cold But if you come around just as the sun goes down You can watch the whole thing turn...

Inanimational items elude I, and In-an-emotional-motion I swallow my Motive of quicker location is slammed my dim chance of skipping this thick world is thin Th...

I, cigarette fingers puff and poke puff and poking the smoke touches the ground You, your lungs and your wrists they throb like trains choo choo choo it's a pr...

One more land gone One more land gone One more land One more land gone One more land gone One more land is gone The Good Hun rode into the fields He is Attila...

One more man gone One more man gone One more man is gone The good son walks into the field He is a tiller, he has a tiller's hands But down in his heart now He...

I set out on monday The night was cold and vast And my brother slept And though I left quite quietly My father raged and raged And my mother wept Now, my life...

(A Harvey) Oh please don't send me out Said the man with the hammer, hammering the anvil I been walking on a road of rocks And I keep on hammering, keep on ham...

They found Mary Bellows cuffed tot he bed With a rag in her mouth and a bullet in her head O poor Mary Bellows She'd grown up hungry, she'd grown up poor So she...

It was the dirty end of winter Along the loom of the land When I walked with sweet Henry Hand upon hand And the wind it bit bitter For a girl of no means With n...

Into the mercy seat I clim My head is shaved, my head is wired And the mercy seat is waiting And I think my head is burning Anyway I'm yearning to be done with ...

The moon is in the gutter And the stars wash down the sink I am the king of the blues I scape the clay off my shoes And wade down the gutter and the moon The mo...

Come sail your ships around me And burn your bridges down We make a little history, baby Every time you come around Come loose your dogs upon me And let your ha...

(Cash, Daniels) As I walk these narrow streets Where a million passin feet have trod before me With my guitar in my hand Suddenly I realize nobody knows me Wh...

Guitar thug blew into town His eyes like wheels spinnin' round Jerkin-off at every sound Layin' all his crosses down O yeah He got Six Strings The Six Strings t...

I married my wife on the day of the eclipse Our friends awarded her courage with gifts Now as the nights grow longer and the season shifts I look to my sorrowfu...

From the album Oedipus Schmoedipus by Barry Adamson Our time is done my love We've laid it all to waste One thousand moonlit kisses can't sweeten this bitter ta...

Tell me how long's the train been gone? Tell me how long's the train been gone? And was she there? And was she there? Tell me how long's the train been gone? T...

Go son, go down to the water And see the women weeping there Then go up into the mountains The men, they are weeping too Father, why are all the women weeping? ...

Down in the willow garden, me and my love did meet And as we sat a-courting, my love fell off to sleep I had a bottle of burgundy wine; my love, she did not kno...

Yeah, yeah Well, well I took a walk down to the port Where strangers meet and do consort All blinkered with desire And a winter fog moved thickly on A winter fo...

Just like a bird That sings up the sun In a dawn so very dark Such is my faith for you Such is my faith A single spark Can't swallow up Such is my love for you ...

Hey there sugar where ya gunna go? I'm going downtown Daddy-O What ya gunna do when you get there, girl? I'm gunna get messed up in a God-Shaped Hole Hey Mr Hop...

There is a town Where I was born Far far away Across the sea And in that town Where I was born I would dream That one day I would leave And cross the sea And ...

I know you've heard it all before But I'm sorry for this three year war For the setting up of camps and wire and trenches I'm sorry for the other night I know s...

Hidden track on the X-Files TV series soundtrack We were called to the forest, and we went down A wind wind blew warm and eloquent, We were searching for the ...

We were called to the forest, and we went down A wind wind blew warm and eloquent, We were searching for the secrets of the universe, we rounded up demons and ...

(Cave / Coulais) Across the oceans across the seas, Over forests of blackened trees Through valleys so still we dare not breathe, To be by your side Over the ...

From I'm Your Fan, a Leonard Cohen tribute album Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places I used to play And I'm crazy for love but I'm...

I know you've heard it all before But I'm sorry for this three year war For the setting up of camps and wire and trenches I'm sorry for the other night I know s...

Woo-wooooooo Woo! In the name of pain! (In the name of pain and suffering) In the name of pain! (In the name of pain and suffering) There comes a train! (There ...

Truck love! Right here! Truck love! Right now! Bewitched by pure power That's truck love! In the gully of your choice Truck love! Jam-up on a leaping tree Head ...

Looka yonder! Looka yonder! Looka yonder! A big black cloud come! O comes to Tupelo Comes to Tupelo Yonder on the horizon Stopped at the mighty river and Sucked...

(John Lee Hooker 1959) A song which was a likely inspiration for Tupelo Nick's song is also available Tupelo Blues - John Lee Hooker (3:23) (from the album The...

O My O My What a wretched life I was born on the day That my poor mother died I was cut from her belly With a stanley knife My daddy did a jig With the drunk mi...