The Decemberists – Mariners Revenge Song (Guitar)

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We are two Mariners, our ship's sole survivors, in this belly of a whale

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Its ribs our ceiling beams, its guts our carpeting, I guess we have some time

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to kill. You may not remember me, I was a child of three, and you a lad of

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eighteen. But I remember you, and I will relate to you, how our histories

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interweave.

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At the time you were a rake and a rastabout. Spending all your money on the

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whores and hounds. Oh-oh.

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You had a charming air, all cheap and debonair, my widowed mother found so

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sweet. And so she took you in, her sheets still warm with him, now filled

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with filth and foul disease.

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As time wore on you proved a debt-ridden drunken mess. Leaving my mother a

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poor consumptive wretch. Oh-oh.

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And then you disappeared. Your gambling arrears, the only thing you left

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behind. And then the magistrate, reclaimed our small estate, and my poor

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mother lost her mind.

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Then one day in spring my dear, sweet mother died. But before she did I took

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her hand as she dying cried, Oh-oh,

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"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters,

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drag him to a hole until he wakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his

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grave, oh-oh."

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It took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears, among the urchins in the

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street. And then a priory, took pity and hired me to keep their vestry nice

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and neat.

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But never once in the employ of these holy men, did I ever once turn my mind

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from the thought of revenge. Oh-oh.

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The following day I shipped to sea with the privateer. And in the whistle of

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the wind I could almost hear, oh-oh.

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"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters,

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drag him to a whole until he wakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his

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grave.

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There is one thing I must say to you, as you sail across the sea. Always your

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mother will watch over you, as you avenge this wicked deed.

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And then one fateful night, we had you in our sights, after 20 months at sea.

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rumbling from beneath.

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The ocean shook, the sky went black and the captain quailed. And before us

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grew the angry jaws of a giant whale, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh.

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Don't know how I survived, the crew all was chewed alive, I must have slipped

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between his teeth. But oh what providence, what divine intelligence, that you

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should survive as well as me.

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It gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear. So lean in close

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and I will whisper the last words you'll hear, oh-oh.

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