The Mariner's Revenge Song The Decemberists
(Intro:)
[Am]
[Am]We are two mariners, our ships' sole survivors
In this belly of a [E]whale
Its ribs our ceiling beams, its guts our carpeting
I guess we have some time to [Am]kill
You may not remember me, I was a child of three
And you a lad of eigh[E]teen
But I remember you and I will relate to you
How our histories inter[Am]weave
[F]At the time you were a rake and a rousta[Am]bout
[F]Spending all your money on the whores and [E]hounds, [F]oh[E]
[Am]You had 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 di[Am]sease
As [F]time wore on you proved a dead-ridden drunken [Am]mess
[F]Leaving my mother a poor consumptive [E]wretch, [F]oh[E]
[Am]And then you dissapeared, your gambling arrears
The only thing you left [E]behind
And then the magistrate reclaimed our small estate
And my poor mother lost her [Am]mind
[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]
"[Dm]Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break his
[Am]Fingers to splinters
Throw him to a hole until he
[Dm]Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling of his [E]grave"[F] [E]
[Am] [G] [Am] [G] [Am] [G] [Am]
[Am]It took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears
Among the urchins in the [E]street
Until a priory took pity and hired me
To keep their vestry nice and [Am]neat
But [F]never once in the employ of these holy [Am]men
Did [F]I ever once stir my mind from the thought of re[E]venge, [F]oh[E]
[Am]One night I overheard the prior exhanging words
With a penitent whaler from the [E]sea
The captain of his ship who matched you toe to tip
Was known for wanton cruel[Am]ty
The [F]following day I shipped to sea with a priva[Am]teer
And [F]in the whistle of the wind I could almost [E]hear, [F]oh[E]
"[Dm]Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break his
[Am]Fingers to splinters
Throw 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 [G]say to you
[C]As you sail across the [G]sea
[Am]Always your mother will watch [Em]over you
[F]As you avenge this wicked [E]deed"
(Interlude:)
[Dm] [Am] [Dm] [E]
[Dm] [Am] [Dm] [E]
[Dm] [Am] [Dm] [E]
[Dm] [Am] [Dm] [E]
[Am]And then that fateful night we had you in our sight
After twenty months at [E]sea
Your starboard flank a beam, I was getting my muskets clean
when came this rumbling from [Am]beneath
The [F]ocean stirred the sky went black and the captain [Am]quailed
And [F]before us grew the angry jaws of a giant [E]whale, [F]oh[E]
[Am]Don't know how I survived, the crew all was chewed alive
I must have slipped between his [E]teeth
But oh what providence, what divine intelligence
That you should survive as well as [Am]me
It [F]gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with [Am]fear
So [F]lean in close and I will whisper the last words you'll [E]hear, [F]oh[E]
(Outro:)
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[Dm] [Am] [Dm] [E] [F] [E]
[Dm] [Am] [Dm] [E] [F] [E]
[Dm]Dm [Am]Am [Dm]Dm [E]E [F]F [E]E (accelerate)
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