The Decemberists – Calamity Song (Guitar)

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Chords

The picking pattern is something like this:
D:
e|-2---------------2----2--------------2---------------2----2---------------|
B|-3----3----------3----3--------------3----3----------3----3---------------|
G|-2----2-2-4-2----2----2-------2---2--2----2-2-4-2----2----2-------2-2-----|
D|-0----0-0-0-0----0----0---2h4---0-0--0----0-0-0-0----0----0---2h4---0-0---|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|

A:
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-2----------------2-----2-------------2-----------------------------------|
G|-2----------------2-----2-------------2----2--------------------0---------|
D|-2----2-2-4-2-----2-----2-------2-----2----2-2-4-2----2----2---------4-2-0|
A|-0----0-0-0-0-----0-----0---2h4---0-0-0----0-0-0-0----0----0--------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Intro: |D |D | |D |D | |A |A | |A |A |
D
Had a dream, you and me and the war of the 

A
end times 

D
And I believe California succumbed to the 

A
fault line 
We heaved relief as scores of innocents died
G                  D
And the Andalusian tribes 

G                            D
Setting the lay of Nebraska alight 

                A                        G
'Til all that remains is the arms of the angels 

D                                          A
Hetty Green, queen of supply-side bonhomie bone-drab. Know what I mean? 

D                                                   A
On the road, it's well advised that you follow your own bag 

A
In the year of the chewable Ambien tab 

G                  D
And the Panamanian child 

G                             D
Stands at the dowager empress' side 

                 A                      G
And all that remains is the arms of the angels 

D              A                        G
And all that remains is the arms of the angels 
Aaaooooo: |D |D | |G |G |x2
Em                       A
When you've receded into loam 

Em                          A
And they're picking at your bones 

      G      D
We'll come home
|D |D |
             A
We’ll come home 
|G |G |
D                                        A
Quiet now, will we gather to conjure the rain down?

D                                   A 
Will we now build a civilization below ground? And I'll be crowned the community kick-it-around 

G                  D
And the Andalusian tribes 

G                           D
Setting the lay of Nebraska alight 

               A                         G
'Til all that remains is the arms of the angels 

D             A                          G
'Til all that remains is the arms of the angels
Aaaooooo: |D |D | |G |G |x4 Outro: |D |