The Decemberists – Bagmans Gambit (Guitar)

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E5/C: x 3 2 4 4 0 Cadd9: x 3 2 0 3 0 Cmaj7: x 3 2 0 0 0 Cmaj7*:x 3 2 0 3 x E5/C*: x 3 2 0 0 x Am: x 2 2 1 x x Esus4: x 2 2 0 x x Dsus2: x 2 2 3 x x For the verse, strum each chord once. INTRO (E5/C Cadd9 Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7*)x2 VERSE 1
E5/C  Cadd9 Cadd9    
On the lam 

          Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C
From the law

             Cadd9 Cadd9
On the steps of 

     Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C
The capital

           Cadd9 Cadd9
You shot a plainclothes 

Cmaj7 Cmaj7
Cop on the 

Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C 
Ten               o'         clock
Cadd9 Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7 Am Esus4 Dsus2
Esus4  Am      Esus4 Am Esus4 Dsus2 Am Esus4  
And I saw momentarily

Esus4 Am Esus4 Dsus2 Am Esus4              E5/C
They flashed a photograph, It couldn't be you
Cadd9 Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7*
Esus4  Am      Esus4 Am Esus4 Dsus2 Am Esus4
You'd been abused so horribly

Esus4 Am Esus4 Dsus2 Am Esus4         (E5/C
But you were there in some anonymous room
Cadd9 Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7*)x2 VERSE 2
E5/C  Cadd9 Cadd9
And I recall that 

Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C
Fall

       Cadd9 Cadd9
I was working for the 

Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C
Government

         Cadd9 Cadd9  Cmaj7 Cmaj7
And in a bathroom     stall 

  Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C
Off the national mall
Cadd9 Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7 Am Esus4 Dsus2
Esus4  Am      Esus4 Am Esus4 Dsus2 Am Esus4
How we kissed so sweetly

Esus4 Am Esus4 Dsus2 Am Esus4    E5/C
How could I refuse a favor or two
Cadd9 Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7*
Esus4  Am      Esus4 Am Esus4 Dsus2 Am Esus4
And for a tryst in the greenery

Esus4 Am Esus4 Dsus2 Am Esus4       (E5/C
I gave you documents and microfilm too
Cadd9 Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7*)x2 CHORUS
G
And from my ten floor tenement

                      Am
Where once our bodies lay

                         C
How I longed to hear you say

Cm                         G
"No they'll never catch me now

Cm
No they'll never catch me

Am                      F
No they cannot catch me now

   E               F
We will escape somehow

Fm
Somehow, oh"
(E5/C Cadd9 Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7*)x2 VERSE 3
E5/C  Cadd9 Cadd9
It was late 

       Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C
One night

E5/C  Cadd9 Cadd9
I was awoken by the 

       Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C
Telephone

           Cadd9 Cadd9                                         
I heard a strangled     

Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C
Cry           on the     end of the       line
Cadd9 Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7 Am Esus4 Dsus2
Esus4  Am      Esus4 Am Esus4 Dsus2 Am Esus4
Purloined in Petrograd

Esus4 Am Esus4 Dsus2 Am Esus4                  E5/C
They were suspicious of where your loyalties lay
Cadd9 Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7*
Esus4  Am      Esus4 Am Esus4 Dsus2 Am Esus4
So I paid off a bureaucrat

Esus4 Am Esus4 Dsus2 Am Esus4                  (E5/C
To convince your captors there to secret you away
Cadd9 Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7*)x2 CHORUS
G
And at the gate of the embassy

                          Am
Our hands met through the bars

                           C
As your whisper stilled my heart

Cm                         G
"No they'll never catch me now

Cm
No they'll never catch me

Am                      F
No they cannot catch me now

   E               F
We will escape somehow

Fm
Somehow, oh"
BRIDGE C B C B G
G
And I dreamt one night

                  F#
You were there in form

      G
Hands held high

      F#
In uniform

G
Oh

F#
Oh
(E5/C Cadd9 Cadd9 Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7*)x2 OUTRO
E5/C  Cadd9 Cadd9    
It was ten 

       Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C
Years on

E5/C  Cadd9 Cadd9
When you resurfaced 

       Cmaj7 Cmaj7 Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C
In a motorcar

         Cadd9 Cadd9  Cmaj7 Cmaj7                 
And with the wave of an arm 

Cmaj7* Cmaj7* E5/C* E5/C* Cmaj7* Cmaj7*
You were       there        and gone