A Cautionary Song

A Cautionary Song easy guitar chords by The Decemberists

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

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Fret 5

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  • Intro 1

    Verse 1
    There's 

    place 
    your 
    mother 
    goes 

    When 
    everybody 
    else 
    is 

    soundly 
    sleeping 

    Through 
    the 
    lights 
    of 
    beacon 
    street 

    And 
    if 
    you 
    listen 
    you 

    can 
    hear her 
    weeping 

    She's 
    weeping 

    Verse 2
    'Cause 
    the 
    gentlemen 
    are 
    calling 

    And 
    the 
    snow 
    is 
    softly 
    falling 

    On her 
    petticoats 

    And 
    she's 
    standing 
    in 
    the 
    harbor 

    And 
    she's 
    waiting 
    for 
    the 
    sailors 

    In 
    the jolly 
    boat 

    See 
    how 
    they 
    approach? 

    Verse 3
    With 
    dirty 
    hands 
    and 
    trousers 
    torn 

    They 
    grapple 
    'til 
    she's 

    safe 
    within 
    their 
    keeping 

    gag 
    is placed 
    between 
    her 
    lips 

    To 
    keep 
    her 
    sorry 
    tongue 
    from 
    any 
    speaking 

    Or screamin' 

    Verse 4

    And 
    they 
    row 
    her 
    out 
    to 
    packets 

    Where 
    the 
    sailor's 
    sorry 
    racket 

    Calls 
    for 
    maidenhead 

    And 
    she's 
    scarce 
    above 
    the 
    gunwales 

    When 
    her 
    clothes 
    fall 
    to 
    a bundle 

    And 
    she's 
    laid 
    in 
    bed 

    On 
    the 
    upper 
    deck 

    Interlude 1




    Verse 5
    And 
    so 
    she 
    goes 
    from 
    ship 
    to 
    ship 

    Her 
    ankles 
    clasped, 

    her 
    arms 
    so 
    rudely 
    pinioned 

    'Til 
    at 
    last 
    she's 
    satis
    fied 

    The 
    lot 
    of 
    the 
    marina's 
    teeming 
    minions 

    In 
    their 
    opinions 

    Verse 6
    And 
    they 
    tell 
    her 
    not 
    to 
    say 
    a thing 

    To 
    cousin, 
    kindred, 
    kith 
    or kin 

    Or she'll 
    end 
    up 
    dead 

    And 
    they 
    throw 
    her 
    thirty 
    dollars 

    And 
    return 
    her 
    to 
    the 
    harbor 

    Where 
    she 
    goes 
    to bed 

    And 
    this is 
    how 
    your 
    fed 

    Verse 7
    So 
    be 
    kind 
    to your 
    mother 

    Though 
    she may 
    seem 
    an awful 
    bother 

    And 
    the nex
    t time 
    she 
    tries 
    to 
    feed 

    you 
    col
    lard greens 

    Verse 8
    Remember 
    what 
    she does 
    when 
    you're 
    asleep 


    Remember 
    what 
    she does when you're asleep 

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