Chords for The Decemberists - A Cautionary Song with LYRICS

_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [A] _ [Dm] _
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There's a place your mother goes when [A] everybody [Dm] else is soundly [G] sleeping _ _ _ _ _
[D] Through the lights the beacons beat and if you [A] listen [Dm] you can [G] hear her weeping [A] She's weeping _
_ _ Cause [Bb] the gentle [F] men are [Bb] calling and the snow is softly falling [F] on her _ petticoat
_ And [Bb] she's standing [F] in the [Bb] harbour and she's waiting [F] for the sailor in the jolly boat
[A] Surrounded by a crowd _ _ _ [Fm] _ [A]
with dirty hands and trousers on they grapple till she's [Dm] safe within [G] the keeping
A [Gm] _ _ [D]
gag is placed [Dm] between her lips to keep her sorry tongue [G] from any speaking [A] or screaming _ _
_ And [Bb] they roll her out to pack her to the sailor's story ragged [F] clothed for maintenance _ _
And _ [Bb] she's scarce above the gunwales when her clothes fall [F] to a bundle and she's laid in bed [A] on the upper deck
_ _ La la [G] la la la [Gm] la _ _ _ [A] _ _
la_
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_ _ _ _ _ And so she goes from ship to ship her ankles clasped her arms [Dm] so [G] rudely pinioned
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Till at last she's satisfied the lot of the marinas [G] dreaming ninjas [D] in [A] their opinion _ _ _
_ And [Bb] they tell her not to say a thing, to cause indigretion again, [F] or she'll end up dead. _
_ And [Bb] they throw her thirty dollars and return her to [F] the harbor where she goes to bed, and
[A] it's how you're fed.
_ So [Gm] be kind _ to your mother, though [A] she may seem an awful bother, _ [Gm] and the next time she
tries to feed you, call [A] her dreams.
_ _ _ Remember [E] what she does when you're asleep.
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