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A Cautionary Song easy guitar chords by 
The Decemberists
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Intro 1
Am
E
Am
E
Am
E
Am
E
Verse 1
Am
There's
E
Am
a place your mother goes
When everybody else is
Dm
soundly sleeping
Am
E
Through the lights of beacon street
Am
E
And if you listen you
Am
Dm
can hear her weeping
D
E
She's weeping
Verse 2
F
C
'Cause the gentlemen are calling
F
C
And the snow is softly falling
F
C
On her petticoats
F
C
And she's standing in the harbor
F
C
And she's waiting for the sailors
F
C
In the jolly boat
E
See how they approach?
Verse 3
Am
With dirty hands and trousers torn
They grapple 'til she's
Dm
safe within their keeping
Am
E
Am
A gag is placed between her lips
Dm
To keep her sorry tongue from any speaking
D
Or screamin'
E
Verse 4
F
C
And they row her out to packets
F
Where the sailor's sorry racket
C
Calls for maidenhead
F
C
And she's scarce above the gunwales
F
When her clothes fall to a bundle
C
And she's laid in bed
E
On the upper deck
Interlude 1
E
D
Dm
D
E
D
Dm
D
E
Verse 5
Am
E
Am
And so she goes from ship to ship
Her ankles clasped,
D
Am
A
D
Am
her arms so rudely pinioned
E
'Til at last she's satisfied
Am
D
The lot of the marina's teeming minions
Am
E
In their opinions
Bm
E
Verse 6
F
C
And they tell her not to say a thing
F
C
To cousin, kindred, kith or kin
F
C
Or she'll end up dead
F
C
And they throw her thirty dollars
F
C
And return her to the harbor
Where she goes to bed
E
And this is how your fed
Verse 7
Dm
So be kind to your mother
E
Though she may seem an awful bother
Dm
And the next time she tries to feed
E
you collard greens
Verse 8
Remember what she does when you're asleep
Remember what she does when you're asleep
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