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