Chords for The Decemberists - "The Mariner's Revenge Song"

[Am] [G] [Am] .
Here we go.
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We are two mariners, a ship's sole survivors, in this belly of a [E] whale.
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Its ribs are ceiling beams, its guts are carpeting, I guess we have some time [Am] to kill.
You may not remember me, I was a child of three, and you a lad of [E] eighteen.
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But I remember you, and I will relate to you, how our history's in [Am] a weave.
[F] At the time you were a rake and a [Am] rastabow, .
[F] spending all your money on the hoards [E] and howls.
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[F] [E] Oh, [Am] oh, you had a charming air, so deep and ebony, my widowed mother found [E] so sweet.
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And so she took you in, her sheets so warm and him, now filled with filth and [Am] foul disease.
[F] As time wore on, you proved a dead, ridden, [Am] drunken mess.
[F] Leaving my mother a pork and some dear [E] .
[F] ranch.
[E] Oh, [Am] oh, and then you disappeared, your gambling arrears, the only thing you left [E] behind.
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And then the magistrate reclaimed our small estate, and my poor mother lost her mind.
[Am] [F] Then one day in spring, my dear sweet mother [Am] .
died.
[F] But boy, she did, I took her hand as she [E] dying cried.
[F] Oh, [E] .
oh, [Dm] it [D] .
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took me [G] fifteen [Am] years to swallow all my [G] [Am] tears, among the urchins in [E] the street.
Until a prior mayor took pity and hired me to keep their best street [Am] nice and clean.
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[F] But never once in the employ of these holy [Am] .
men, [A] [F] did I ever once turn my mind from the thought of [E] revenge.
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[E] Oh, oh, [Am] one night I overheard the prior exchanging words [E] with a penitent whaler from the sea.
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The captain of his ship, who met you toe to tip, was known for one cruel [Am].
thing.
[F] The following day I shipped a sea with a [Am] privateer, [F] and in the whistle of the wind I could [E] almost hear.
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[F] [E] Oh, oh, [Dm] I .
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say to you, [C] .
as you sail [G] across the sea, .
[Am] always your [A] mother [Em] will watch over you, [F] .
as you avenge [E] this wicked deed.
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[Am] And then that fateful night, we had you in our sight, after [E] twenty months at sea.
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You starboard flanker beam, I was getting my muskets clean, when came this rumbling [G#] from [Am] beneath.
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The ocean shook, the sky went black, and the captain [Am] quailed, as [F] did four us crew, the angry joys of a giant [E] whale.
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[Am] So now how I survived, the crew all was chewed alive, I must have slipped between [E] his teeth.
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But oh, what providence, what divine intelligence, that you should survive as well as [Am].
me.
[F] It gives my eye great joy to see your eyes filled with [Am] fear.
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[F] So lean in close, and I will whisper the last [E] words you'll hear.
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[F] Oh, [E] oh.
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