The Mariner's Revenge Song chords and lyrics - THE DECEMBERISTS

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[Verse 1]
[Am]
We are two mariners
Our ships' sole survivors
In this belly [E]of a whale
Its ribs are ceiling beams
Its guts are carpeting
I guess we have some time to [Am]kill

[Verse 2]
You may not [Am]remember me
I was a child of three
And you, a lad of eight[E]een
But I remember you
And I will relay to you
How our histories inter[Am]weave

[Verse 3]
[F]At the time you were
A rake and a roust[Am]about
[F]Spending all your money
On the whores and [E]hounds
[F]Oh[E]
[Am]You had

[Verse 4]
a charming air
All cheap and debonair
My widowed mother found so [E]sweet
And so she took you in
Her sheets still warm with him
Now filled with filth and foul dis[Am]ease

[Verse 5]
As [F]time wore on you proved
A debt- ridden drunken [Am]mess
[F]Leaving my mother
A poor consumptive [E]wretch
[F]Oh, [E]oh
[Am]And then you

[Verse 6]
disappeared
Your gambling arrears
The only thing you left be[E]hind
And then the magistrate
Reclaimed our small estate
And my poor mother lost her [Am]mind

[Verse 7]
[F]Then, one day in spring
My dear sweet mother [Am]died
But be[F]fore she did
I took her hand as she, dying, [E]cried
[F]Oh, [E]oh
[Dm]"Find him,

[Verse 8]
bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His [Am]fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole
Until he [Dm]wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling of his
[E]grave"
[F][E][Am]

[Verse 9]
[Am][Dm]
[Am]It took me fifteen years
To swallow all my tears
Among the urchins [E]in the street
Until a priory
Took pity and hired me
To keep their vestry nice and [Am]neat

[Verse 10]
But [F]never once in the employ
Of these holy [Am]men
Did [F]I ever once turn my mind
From the thought of [E]revenge
Oh, [F]oh[E]
[Am]One night

[Verse 11]
I overheard
The prior exchanging words
With a penitent whaler [E]from the sea
The captain of his ship
Who matched you toe to tip
Was known for wanton [Am]cruelty

[Verse 12]
The [F]following day
I shipped to sea with a privat[Am]eer
An[F]d in the whistle of the wind
I could almost [E]hear
[F]Oh, oh[E]

[Verse 13]
"Find him, [Dm]bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His [Am]fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole
Until he [Dm]wakes up, naked
Clawing at the ceiling of his [E]grave[F][E]
[C]There is one thing I must

[Verse 14]
[G]say to you
[C]As you sail across the sea[G]
[Am]Always, your mother will watch over [E]you
[F]As you avenge this wicked [E]deed"

[Interlude 1]
[E][Dm]
[Am]
[Dm]
[E]
[Dm]
[Am][Dm]
[E]
[Dm]
[Am][Dm]
[E]
[Am]

[Verse 15]
And then, that fateful night
We had you in our sight
After twenty months [E]at sea[Am]
[E]Your starboard flank abeam
I was getting my muskets
clean
When came this rumbling from
be[Am]neath

[Verse 16]
[F]The ocean shook
The sky went black
And the captain [Am]quailed
And be[F]fore us grew
The angry jaws
Of a giant whale
[E]Oh, oh, [F]oh, [E]oh[F][E]
[Am]Don't know how

[Verse 17]
I survived
The crew all was chewed alive
I must have slipped between [E]his teeth
But, oh, what providence
What divine intelligence
That you should survive as [Am]well as me

[Verse 18]
It [F]gives my heart great joy
To see your eyes fill [Am]with fear
So [F]lean in close and I will whisper
The last words you'll [E]hear
[F]Oh,[E][Am]
[Dm][E]
[F][E][Dm][Am]
[Dm]oh

[Outro 1]
[Dm][E][F][E][Dm]
[Am][Dm]
[E]
[F][E][Dm][G][Dm]
[Am][Dm]
[E][F][E][Dm]
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