The Decemberists – Rusalka Rusalka Wild Rushes (Guitar)

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[Intro] Dm Bb C9 G Dm Bb C9 G F E [Verse 1]
Dm                    Bb
Rusalka, Rusalka your arms out of water

     C9                 G
Your hair like an alien bloom

Dm                      Bb
Dark-eyed Rusalka, your brow tressed in flowers

C9                     G
Pale in a liminal moon

Dm               Bb       C9          G      G F E
And all that you are is a star on the water
[Interlude] Dm Bb C9 G F E [Verse 2]
     Dm                       Bb
When first I went swimming, I heeded no warning

    C9                              G
And dared breach your rippling pool

   Dm                         Bb
As I lulled and lingered, the ring slipped my finger

    C9                              G
And drifted down the deepening cool

    Dm         Bb         C9           G        G F E
And all that I want is to fall in your shallows
[Interlude] Dm Bb C9 G F E [Verse 3]
    Dm                  Bb
And now we are wed, the water our bed

    C9                         G
And bank to bank property lake

    Dm                     Bb
And you are my wild-eyed rusalka, my river bride

C9                         G
Drag me down, take me away

    Dm           Bb           C9            G          Dm
And here we will lie, you and I, 'neath the cold, dark sky
[Interlude] Dm Bb C9 G F E D C9 D [Verse 4]
   D                       C9          D
Beware the wild rushes, my mother told me

      D                       C9            D
That grow on the banks side along the salt sea

   C9         D       C9         D
But I being young, I heeded her none

   D                       C9          D
So to the wild rushes the wind carried me

    D                       C9         D
The summer was here and the sun it was high

    D                    C9          D
And to the wild rushes I came by and by

    C9            D        C9           D
And there took my seat and dipped in my feet

    D                          C9            D
And through the wild rushes, a voice sweetly cried:

G    D
Ahhh
[Verse 5]
     D                             C9        D
Come down, my little darling, come closer to me

    D                    C9        D
The water is warm; it is salty and free

  C9            D           C9            D
I long for your touch but I won't ask too much

    D                        C9       D
And I, being foolish, walked in to my knees

     D                         C9        D
Come down, little darling, and lay at my breast

   D                        C9          D
Oh come a little closer and I'll do the rest

  C9        D          C9       D
I waited so long for a lover to come

    D                        C9       D
And I, being foolish, walked in to my chest

G    D
Ahhh

G    D
Ahhh
[Verse 6]
    D                           C9           D
Come down, my little darling, oh farther come in

    D                     C9          D
For deeper the water, the sweeter the sin

   C9        D              C9        D
My lily lies here, if you'd only draw near

    D                      C9       D
And I, being foolish, went in to my chin

   D                               C9           D
Oh come, my little darling, do you feel my cool breath?

       D                          C9          D
Do you feel my arms around you so warm and so wet?

C9            D         C9        D
Swept from my feet, she pulled me beneath

    D                     C          G
And in the wild rushes, I went to my death