The Decemberists – The Mariners Revenge Song (Ukulele)

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We are two Mariners, our ship's sole survivors,

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in this belly of a whale.

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Its ribs our ceiling beams, its guts our carpeting

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I guess we have some time to kill.

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You may not remember me, I was a child of three,

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and you a lad of eight-teen

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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

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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,

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my widowed mother found so sweet

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And so she took you in, her sheets still warm with him,

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now filled with filth and fowl disease

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As time wore on you proved a debt-ridden drunken mess

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Leaving my mother a 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

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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

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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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One night I overheard the prior exchanging words with a penetant whaler from

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the sea

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The captain of his ship who matched you toe to tip was known for a

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wanton cruelty

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The following day I shipped to sea with the privateer

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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 twenty 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