Chords for The Decemberists - The Rake's Song

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[E] I had [G] entered [E] into a [G]
marriage [E] in the [G] summer of my [E] 21st [G] year
[E] and the [G] bells rang [Em] for our [G]
wedding [E] only now [G] do I [E] remember it [A] clear all right _ [C] all right all [G] right _ _ _ _ _ _
all right no more a rake and no more a bachelor I was wedded and it wedded my first until her womb
started spilling out baby _ [E] only then [G] did I [E] reckon my [A] curse all right [C] all right all [G]
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[E] right [G] first _ [E] _ _ [G] _
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came martio with his creakle little fingers
then came charlotte and that wretched girl dawn ugly mcflatt and we died [E] on [G] delivery
[E] simply [G] taking her mother [Em] along [A] all right [C] all right all [G] right
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what can one do when one is a windward [E] she fully settled [G] with three [E] little [G] pests
all [E] that I wanted [Gm] was the freedom [E] of a new [G]
life so my burden [G] I began [E] to die
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[E] charlotte's are buried [G] after beating [E] a fox [G]
love [E] dawn was easy [G] she was [E] grounded in the bath
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I [E] say a but [G] but was [E] easily [G] vested [E] burned his body [G] for [E] incurring my wrath
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that's how I get your humble narrator to be living so easy and free
that you think that I should be haunted but it never really bothers me [A] all right
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[E] right _ [G] _ _ [E] _ [A] all right [C] all right
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