Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) chords by
The Decemberists 
Key: A minor•
Intro 1
Am
C
Am
Em
C
Am
Verse 1
C
Heart- carved tree trunk,
Am
Yankee bayonet
C
Am
A sweetheart left be hind
C
Am
Far from the hills of the sea-
swelled Carolinas
C
That's where my true love
Am
lies
C
Am
C
Verse 2
Am
C
Look for me when the
Am
sun- bright swallow
C
Am
Sings upon the birch bough high
C
But you are in the ground with
Am
the wolves and the weevils
C
Am
All a'chew on your bones so dry
C
Interlude 1
Am
C
Am
C
Am
C
Am
A
C
But when the sun
Verse 3
Am
break s
A
C
G
A
To no more bullets in Battle Creek
C
Then will you make a grave?
A
F
For I will be home then
Verse 4
G
I will be home then
F
I will be home then
G
I will be home then, then
C
Am
C
Verse 5
Am
A
C
When I was a girl
Am
How the hills of Oconee made
C
Am
a seam to hem me in
C
Am
There at the fair when our eyes caught,
careless
C
Got my heart right pierced
Am
by a pin
C
Am
C
Verse 6
Am
C
But oh, did you see all the
Am
dead of Manassas?
C
Am
All the bellies and the bones and the bile
C
No, I lingered here with
Am
the blankets barren
C
And my own belly big with
Interlude 2
a child
Am
C
Am
C
Am
C
Verse 7
Am
C
Am
A
C
But when the sun breaks
A
C
G
A
To no more bullets in Battle Creek
C
Then will you make a grave?
A
F
For I will be home then
C
I will be
Verse 8
G
home then
F
I will be home then
C
G
I will be home then
Verse 9
F
Stems and bones and stone
G
walls too
F
Could keep me from you
E
The skein of skin is all too few
G
To keep me from you
C
Am
C
Verse 10
Am
C
But oh my love,
Am
though our bodies may be parted
C
Am
Though our skin may not touch skin
C
Am
Look for me with the sun- bright sparrow
C
Am
C
I will come on the breath of
Am
C
the wind
Outro 1
Am
C
Am
C
Am
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E
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