The Mariner's Revenge Song chords by The Decemberists
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Verse 1
(A minor)
We are two mariners
Our ships' sole survivors
In this belly of a whale (E major)
Its ribs are ceiling beams
Its guts are carpeting
I guess we have some time to (A minor) kill
Verse 2
You may not (A minor) remember me
I was a child of three
And you, a lad of eight (E major) een
But I remember you
And I will relay to you
How our histories inter (A minor) weave
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Verse 3
(F major) At the time you were
A rake and a roustabout (A minor)
(F major) Spending all your money
On the whores and hound (E major) s
(F major) Oh (E major)
(A minor) You had
Verse 4
a charming air
All cheap and debonair
My widowed mother found so (E major) sweet
And so she took you in
Her sheets still warm with him
Now filled with filth and foul dis (A minor) ease
Verse 5
As (F major) time wore on you proved
A debt- ridden drunken mess (A minor)
(F major) Leaving my mother
A poor consumptive wretch (E major)
(F major) Oh, (E major) oh
(A minor) And then you
Verse 6
disappeared
Your gambling arrears
The only thing you left be (E major) hind
And then the magistrate
Reclaimed our small estate
And my poor mother lost her (A minor) mind
Verse 7
(F major) Then, one day in spring
My dear sweet mother died (A minor)
But be (F major) fore she did
I took her hand as she, dying, cried (E major)
(F major) Oh, (E major) oh
(D minor) "Find him,
Verse 8
bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His (A minor) fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole
Until he (D minor) wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling of his
(E major) grave"
(F major) (E major) (A minor)
Verse 9
(A minor) (D minor)
(A minor) It took me fifteen years
To swallow all my tears
Among the urchins in the street (E major)
Until a priory
Took pity and hired me
To keep their vestry nice and (A minor) neat
Verse 10
But (F major) never once in the employ
Of these holy men (A minor)
Did (F major) I ever once turn my mind
From the thought of (E major) revenge
Oh, (F major) oh (E major)
(A minor) One night
Verse 11
I overheard
The prior exchanging words
With a penitent whaler (E major) from the sea
The captain of his ship
Who matched you toe to tip
Was known for wanton cruelty (A minor)
Verse 12
The (F major) following day
I shipped to sea with a privat (A minor) eer
An (F major) d in the whistle of the wind
I could almost hear (E major)
Oh, oh (F major) (E major)
Verse 13
"Find him, (D minor) bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His (A minor) fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole
Until he (D minor) wakes up, naked
Clawing at the ceiling of his (E major) grave (F major) (E major)
(C major) There is one thing I must
Verse 14
(G major) say to you
(C major) As you sail across the (G major) sea
(A minor) Always, your mother will watch (E major) over you
(F major) As you avenge this wicked (E major) deed"
Interlude 1
(E major) (D minor)
(A minor)
(D minor)
(E major)
(D minor)
(A minor) (D minor)
(E major)
(D minor)
(A minor) (D minor)
(E major)
(A minor)
Verse 15
And then, that fateful night
We had you in our sight
After twenty months at sea (E major) (A minor)
(E major) Your starboard flank abeam
I was getting my muskets
clean
When came this rumbling from
be (A minor) neath
Verse 16
The ocean (F major) shook
The sky went black
And the captain quailed (A minor)
And be (F major) fore us grew
The angry jaws
Of a giant whale
(E major) Oh, oh, oh, (F major) (E major) (F major) oh (E major)
(A minor) Don't know how
Verse 17
I survived
The crew all was chewed alive
I must have slipped between his teeth (E major)
But, oh, what providence
What divine intelligence
That you should survive as well as me (A minor)
Verse 18
It (F major) gives my heart great joy
To see your eyes fill with fear (A minor)
So (F major) lean in close and I will whisper
The last words you'll (E major) hear
(F major) Oh, (E major) (A minor)
(D minor) (E major)
(F major) (E major) (D minor) (A minor)
(D minor) oh
Outro 1
(D minor) (E major) (F major) (E major) (D minor)
(A minor) (D minor)
(E major)
(F major) (E major) (D minor) (G major) (D minor)
(A minor) (D minor)
(E major) (F major) (E major) (D minor)
(A minor) (D minor)
(E major) (F major) (E major) (A minor)
The Mariner's Revenge Song
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