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, _ all [C] right, [G] 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 babies [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]
right
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first came Mateo with his creakled little fingers
then came Charlotte and her wretched girl gone ugly but then we died [E] on [G] delivery
[E] with simply [G] taking her mother [Em] along [A] all right, [C] all right, all [G]
right
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what [E] can one [Gm] do when one [E] is a [D] widower?
[E] shamefully settled [D] 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 type best [A] all right, [B] all [C] right, all [G]
right, [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ [A] all right, [C] all right, all [G] right
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_ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Gm]
Charlotte [E] sat buried [G] after feeding [E] her fox [G]
blood
[E] done was easy [G] she was drowned [E] in the [G] bath [E] Isaiah fought [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
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that's how I came your humble _ narrator to be living so easy and free
I suspected you'd think that I should be haunted but it never really bothers me
[A] all right, _ _ [C] _ _ all [Gm]
right, [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] all right, _ [C] all right, all [Gm] _
[Em] right
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