(l,m) Cave (p) Cave & The Bad Seeds < Nick Cave: vocals; Mick Harvey: rhythm guitar, organ, vocals; Bargeld: guitar; Conway Savage: piano; Martyn Casey: bass; Thomas Wydler: The Bad Seeds: backing Mick Harvey & Blumberg: string arrangements; Dennis Karmazyn: cello; Bruce Dukov, Barbara violins > ( Henry's [Mute, 1992] ) Well the night was deep and the was dark And I was at the old dance-hall on the of town Some big ceremony was down Dancers writhed and and then, Came and then writhed again Like flies on a pin In the and in the din Yes, in the and in the din I fell to thinking brand new wife of mad John Finn Well, midnite came and clock did And in she came, did John wife With legs like and butcher's knives A tattooed breast and flaming And a crimson carnation in her Carving her way through the floor And I'm standing by the bandstand Every eye gaping on John Finn's Yeah, every eye on John Finn's wife Now Finn's wife was something of a mystery In a town where to share a sworn secret was a duty I had brass and a bolo knife Over near the bandstand with Finn's wife She got perfumed and raven hair with wedding confettis And a gang of were all giving me stares Armed, as they were, with And the night through the window was full of and awatching at John Finns' wife Winking and at John Finns' wife came the cops, all out on the town But it look like no trouble there As they had for the bar in their lumpy And I slip my hand between the things of John Finn's And they seemed to yawn awake, her It was a warm and very night The moon full of and light And my eyes grew small and my grew tight As I plotted in the ear of Finns' wife John Finn in his shrunken suit With his quick black eyes and cheroot With his filled-down teeth and a hobnail And his fists of pistols in his pockets at me and aiming at his wife The band fall fearing for their lives And fear in my guts like tangled twine Cause all I got is knuckles and a bolo knife And mad Finns' wife is all And the three of us out of the hall Now the night bore upon us all You could hear the in the thickets call And guns did and guns did bawl And I planted my bolo knife in the Of mad Finn. I took his wretched life Now I'm over near the Every hand moving on John wife Every hand moving on John wife And Finns' wife Took all the flowers From her And them on the ground And the did hum And the did buzz around Poor Finn dead upon the ground Lying upon the ground