Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son: Ukulele Chords

Learn to play "The Good Son" on your ukulele with our detailed chord guide and lyrics. This page provides everything you need to play this song on the ukulele, including lyrics integrated with chords, chord diagrams, and a key transposer to match your vocal range.

Learn The Good Son ukulele chords and lyrics

This section will guide you through each part of the song, providing the ukulele chords placed directly above the lyrics for easy playing. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced player, these elements will help you perform "The Good Son" smoothly on your ukulele.

Chorus:
G
One more man gone
One more man gone
          Am
One more man
One more man gone
One more man gone
One more man
One more man gone
One more man gone
One more man is gone

Em
The good son walks into the field
He is a tiller, he has a tiller's hands
But deep down in his heart now
He's laid down his queer plans
Against his brother and against his family
Yet he worships his brother
And he worships his mother
But it's his father, he says, is an unfair man
    Am
The good son
    Em
The good son
    Am
The good son

The good son has sat and often wept
Beneath a malign star by which the good son's kept
And the night-time in which he's wrapped
Speaks of good now, and it speaks of evil
And he calls to his mother
And he calls to his father
But they are deaf in the shadows
Of his brother's truancy
The good son
The good son
The good son
The good son
And he curses his mother
And he curses his father
And he curses his virtue like an unclean thing
The good son
The good son
The good son

Chorus:
G
One more man gone
One more man gone
          Am
One more man, yeah
One more man gone (is gone)
One more man gone (is gone)
One more man (is gone)
One more man gone (is gone)
One more man gone (one more man is gone)
One more man
One more man gone
One more man gone
One more man is gone
One more man gone
One more man gone
One more man is gone, yeah, yeah
One more man gone
One more man gone
One more man gone

The good son (one more man gone)
The good son (one more man gone)
The good son now is gone (one more man)
The good son (one more man gone)
The good son (one more man gone)
The good son now is gone (one more man)
One more man gone
One more man gone (one more man)
The good son
The good son
The good son
The good son

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Ukulele Chord Diagrams

Am

Ukulele chord Am

Em

Ukulele chord Em

G

Ukulele chord G

Here you can see detailed diagrams for each ukulele chord used in the song. Utilize our key transposer to adjust the chords to a key that better fits your singing range. Simply select the desired key, and the chords throughout this page will update automatically, ensuring you can play and sing comfortably.

If you are also interested in learning how to play "The Good Son" on the guitar, check out the chords on our sister site: Guitar Chords for "The Good Son" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

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