The Decemberists – Perfect Crime 2 (Guitar)

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INTRO Em VERSE 1 Sing muse of the passion of the pistol Sing muse of the warning by the whistle A night so dark in the waning A dawn obscured by a slate sky raining VERSE 2 Five and twenty burglars by the reservoir A teenage lookout on the signal tower The mogul's daughter in hogties The mogul fingers the wrong guy CHORUS
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It was a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect   

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A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime

           C                       D
It was a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect   

C                     G                 Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime
It was the perfect crime VERSE 3 The bagman's quaking in the fingers The hand off lends a little lingers A well dressed man in the cross hairs A shot rings out from somewhere upstairs CHORUS
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It was a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect   

C                     G                 Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime

           C                       D
It was a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect   

C                     G                 Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime
It was the perfect crime BRIDGE
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   It was like a ticker-tape parade

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   When the plastique on the safe was blown away

C                        B
   We all gazed from eye to eye

         C                       Em 
   As we mouthed our silent good-byes
VERSE 4 The valley sleeping with the bastard It stinks of slumber and disaster Two words I spoke on the tap-wire The agent's ploy was a surefire backfire CHORUS
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It was a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect   

C                     G                 Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime

           C                       D
It was a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect   

C                     G                 Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime

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a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect           

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a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect

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a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect

     C                  D                
a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect

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a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect

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a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect

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a perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect

     C                  D                Em
A perfect a perfect a perfect a perfect crime