The Rake's Song chords by
The Decemberists

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Key: G major

Intro 1

I had entered

Verse 1
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into a marriage
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In the summer of my twenty-first year
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year
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And the bells rang for our wed ding
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Only now do I  remember it clear
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Am Am 
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Alright, alright, alright
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Verse 2
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No more a rake and no
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more a bachelor
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I   was wedded and it
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whetted my thirst
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Until her womb start spilling out babies
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Em Em 
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Only then did I  reckon my curse
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C C 
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Alright, alright, alright
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Am Am 
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C C 
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G G 
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Alright, alright, alright
Em Em 
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G G 
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Em Em 
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G G 
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Em Em 
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G G 
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Em Em 
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Verse 3
First came
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Isaiah with his crinkled little fingers
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Then came Charlotte and that
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wretched girl Dawn
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Ugly Myfanwy died
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on deliv ery
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Mercifully tak ing her mother along
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Alright, alright,
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alright
Em Em 
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Verse 4
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Em Em 
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What can one do  when one
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is  widower
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Shamefully saddled with three little pests
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All that I wanted was
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the freedom of  a new life
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So my burden I  began to divest
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Em Em 
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Alright, alright, alright
Em Em 
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Am Am 
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Alright, alright,
C C 
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G G 
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alright
Em Em 
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G G 
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Em Em 
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Em Em 
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Verse 5
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Em Em 
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Charlotte I buried after
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feeding her foxglove
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Dawn was easy,
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she was drowned in the bath
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Isaiah fought but was easily bested
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Burned his body for incurring my wrath
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Alright, alright,
C C 
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alright
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Em Em 
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Verse 6
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Em Em 
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And that's how I came your
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humble narrat or
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To be living so easy and free
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Expect you think that
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I should be  haunted
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Em Em 
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But it never really bothers me
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Alright, alright, alright
Em Em 
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Em Em 
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Alright, alright,
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alright

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