The Perfect Crime #2 chords by The Decemberists

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Intro 1

Verse 1

Sing, muse, of the passion

of the pistol

Sing, muse, of the warning by the whistle

On a night so dark in the waning

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Interlude 1

A dawn obscured by slate sky raining

Verse 2

Five and twenty burglars by the reservoir

A teenage lookout on the signal tower

The mogul's daughter in hog-tie

The The mogul fingers the wrong guy, all lies

Verse 3
C 
It was a  (C major) perfect, the perfect, the perfect
D 
C 
D 
C 
 (D major) The  (C major) perfect,  (D major) the  (C major) perfect,
the perfect
Em 
The perfect, perfect crime  (E minor) 
C 
It was a  (C major) perfect, the perfect, the perfect
D 
Em 
C 
 (D major) The  (E minor) perfect,  (C major) the perfect,
the perfect
Em 
The perfect, the perfect  (E minor) crime

Interlude 2

It was the perfect crime

Verse 4

The bagman's quaking at the fingers

The hand-off glance glance a little lingers

A well-dressed man man

in the crosshairs

Verse 5
A shot rings out from somewhere upstairs
Em 
 (E minor) 
C 
It was a  (C major) perfect, the perfect, the perfect
D 
C 
D 
 (D major) The  (C major) perfect,  (D major) the perfect,
C 
 (C major) the perfect
Em 
The perfect,  (E minor) the perfect crime
C 
It was a  (C major) perfect, the perfect, the perfect
D 
C 
 (D major) The perfect,  (C major) the perfect, the perfect
Em 
The perfect,  (E minor) the perfect crime

Interlude 3

It was the perfect crime

Verse 6
C 
It was like  (C major) a  ticker-tape parade
B 
parade  (B major) 
C 
When the plastique  (C major) on the safe
B 
C 
was blown  (B major) away  (C major) 
B 
And we all gaze from eye  (B major) to eye
C 
Em 
B 
D 
As we mouth  (C major) our silent goodbyes  (E minor)  (B major)  (D major) 
Em 
 (E minor) 

Interlude 4

The valley's sleeping

Verse 7
Em 
D 
Em 
 (E minor) like a bastard  (D major)  (E minor) 
B 
Em 
D 
Em 
It stinks of  (B major) slumber  (E minor) and disaster  (D major)  (E minor) 
Two words are spoken
D 
Em 
with tap wire  (D major)  (E minor) 
B 
Em 
The agent's  (B major) ploy finds  (E minor) a   surefire backfire

Verse 8
Em 
 (E minor) 
C 
It was a  (C major) perfect, the perfect,
the perfect
D 
C 
The per (D major) fect, the  (C major) perfect,
the perfect
Em 
The perfect, the perfect crime  (E minor) 
C 
It was a  (C major) perfect, the perfect,
the perfect
The perfect, the perfect, the perfect
The perfect, the perfect crime
Em 
 (E minor) 

Verse 9
C 
It was a  (C major) perfect, the perfect, the perfect
D 
C 
 (D major) The perfect, the per (C major) fect,
the perfect
The perfect, the perfect, the perfect
D 
C 
The perfect, the perfect,  (D major) the per (C major) fect
The perfect, the perfect, the perfect
The perfect, the perfect,
the perfect
The perfect, the perfect, the perfect
D 
C 
 (D major) The perfect, the  (C major) perfect, the perfect
The perfect, the perfect,
the perfect
The perfect, the perfect, the perfect
C 
Em 
 (C major) The perfect, the  (E minor) perfect crime