The Decemberists – The Infanta (Guitar)

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Exact chords tabbed out by ClassicalfreaK, 2015 ==================================================== INTRO (flute-like instrument) (drum beat) VERSE

         E
Here she comes in her palanquin

On the back of an elephant

     F                                 E
On a bed made of linen and sequins and silk

All astride on her father's line With the king and his concubines

        F                                      E
And her nurse with her pitchers of liquors and milk

          G        D          E
And we'll all come praise the infanta

          G        D          E
And we'll all come praise the infanta

VERSE

     E
Among five score pachyderm

Each canopied and passengered

        F                                    E
Sit the duke and the duchess' luscious young girls

Within sight of the baronness Seething spite for this live largesse

       F       
By her side sits the baron

               E
Her barrenness barbs her

          G        D          E
And we'll all come praise the infanta

          G        D          E
And we'll all come praise the infanta

INSTRUMENTAL
    (gtr)
      Em                   F#m/A
e||02|3---0---3-2-0-3-2-0-|2-------------02|
B||--|--------------------|----------------|
G||--|--------------------|----------------|
D||--|--------------------|----------------|
A||--|--------------------|----------------|
E||--|--------------------|----------------|

   Em                   F#m/A
e||3---0---3-2-0-3-2-0-|2-------------23|
B||--------------------|----------------|
G||--------------------|----------------|
D||--------------------|----------------|
A||--------------------|----------------|
E||--------------------|----------------|

   CM7                  Bb
e||5---3---5-3-2-5-3-2-|6-------------56|
B||--------------------|----------------|
G||--------------------|----------------|
D||--------------------|----------------|
A||--------------------|----------------|
E||--------------------|----------------|

   F
e||8---------------|----------------||
B||----------------|----------------||
G||----------------|----------------||
D||----------------|----------------||
A||----------------|----------------||
E||----------------|----------------||

VERSE

     F
A phalanx on camelback

Thirty ranks on a forward tack

         F#                                    F
Followed close, their shiny bright standards a-waving

While behind in their coach, in fours Ride the wives of the king of Moors

        F#                                  F
And the veiled young virgin, the prince's betrothed

    Ab             Eb           F
And we'll all come praise the infanta

    Ab             Eb           F
And we'll all come praise the infanta

BRIDGE

E                         F
 And as she sits upon her place

E                          F
 Her innocence laid on her face

Bb                                 F
 From all atop the parapets blow a multitude of coronets

Bb                        F
 Melodies rhapsodical and fair

Bb
 And all our hearts afire

    F
The sky ablaze with cannon fire

   E                           F
We all raise our voices to the air

        E
To the air...

VERSE

     E
And above all this falderal

On a bed made of chaparral

       F                             E
She is laid, a coronal placed on her brow

And the babe, all in slumber dreams Of a place filled with quiet streams

        F                                         E
And the lake where her cradle was pulled from the water

          G        D          E
And we'll all come praise the infanta

          G        D          E
And we'll all come praise the infanta

          G        D          E
And we'll all come praise the infanta

G D | E C G | E

G D | E
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