Chords for The Decemberists - The Rake's Song

_ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _
_ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ [G]
I [E] 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. _ _ _ _ _
No more a rake and no more a bachelor.
I was wedded and then wedded my first, until her womb starts spilling out baby.
_ [E] Only then [G] did I [E] reckon my [A] curse.
All right, _ [C] all right, all [G]
right.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] All right, _ [C] all right, all [G] _
[E] right.
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _
_ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ [G]
First [E] came Isaiah [G] with his [E] crinkled little [G]
fingers, then came Charlotte and her wretched [E] girl [G] Don.
[E] Ugly, my [G] family died [E] on [G] delivery.
[E] We're simply [G] taking her mother along.
All [A] right, _ [B] all [C] right, all [G]
right.
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ [G]
What [E] can one [G] do when one is a widower?
[E] Shamefully settled [G] with three [E] little [G] pests.
All [E] that I wanted [G] was the freedom [E] of a new [G] life.
[E] So my burden [G] I began [E] to tithe.
That's [A] all right, [C] all right, all [G]
right.
[E] All [G] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
right, [C] all right, all [G]
right.
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _
_ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ [G]
Charlotte [E] I buried [G] after feeding [E] her fox [G]
blood.
[E] Don was easy, [G] she was drowned [E] in the [G] bath.
[E] Isaiah fud, [G] but was [E] easily [G] bested.
[E] Burned his body [G] for incurring [E] my wrath.
[A] All right, [C] all right, all [G]
right.
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ [G]
That's how I came, your humble _ narrator, to be living so easy and free.
I suspect that you think that I should be hunted, but it never really bothers me.
[A] All right, _ [C] all right, all [G] _
[E] right.
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ [A] All right, [C] all right, all [G] _
_ [Em] _ _ [G] right.
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ [N] _