Yankee Bayonet Chords by The Decemberists

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_ [C] _ Heart carved tree [Am] trunk Yankee [C] Bayonetta sweetheart left [Am] behind
_ [C] Far from the hills and [Am] the seaswale [C] Carolinas that's where true [Am] love lies
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_ [C] Look for me [Am] when the sun bright Swallows sings [C] upon the birch [Am] _ powhive
_ [C] You are in the [Am] ground with the wolves and the [C] weevils All but you on the cross [Am] so dry
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_ [C] _ Ho Ho [Am] Ho Ho Ho _ Ho Ho Ho Ho [C] Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho
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_ [A] But when the sun _ breaks Through no [C] more woods [G] and battle [A] creeks
Then will [C] you make a [A] grave?
For I will [F] be home then
_ I will [G] be home then
I will [F] be home then
I will [G] be home _ then Then
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There [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [C] was a girl how [Am] the hills of a calm never [C] seemed to have [Am] me in
_ _ There at the fair when our eyes caught careless got [C] my heart right pierced by [Am] a pin
_ Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [C] ha ha ha ha ha [Am] ha ha ha
_ _ But oh did you see how the dead of Manassas [C] saw the bellies and the bones [Am] and the bile
_ [C] So I lingered here [Am] with the blankets bearing [C] and my own belly big [Am] with child
_ [C] Ha ha ha [Am] ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha _ ha ha ha [C] ha ha ha ha ha [Em] ha ha ha ha ha
_ _ [A] But when [C] the sun _ [A] breaks
To no [C] more bullets [G] in battle [A] creep
Then will [C] you make a [A] grave?
For I will [F] be home then
I will [G] be home then
I will [F] be home then
I will [G] be home _ then _
_ [F] _ _ Stems and bones and stone [G] walls too
Keep me from [F] you
The sky, the skin is all [E] too few
_ [G] To keep me from _ [C] you
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_ [C] Oh my love [Am] though our bodies may be parted [C] though our skin may not [Am] touch skin _
_ [C] Look for me [Am] with the sun bright sparrow [C] I will come on the breath [Am] of the wind _
_ [C] Ha ha [A] ha ha ha ha ha [C] ha _ ha [A] ha ha ha [C] ha _ _ _ [A] ha ha [C] ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [Am] ha ha _
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