The Decemberists – Yankee Bayonet I Will Be Home Then (Ukulele)
Key
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Versions
(4)
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
(Intro)
C Am C Am (note: the intro lick uses Cadd9, if you're lazy and don't wanna play the riff you can
add the ninth after defining the chord)
C Am Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet C Am A sweetheart left behind C Am Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas C Am That's where my true love lies
(C Am C Am)
C Am Look for me when the sun-bright swallow C Am Sings upon the birch bough high C Am But you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils C Am All a'chew upon your bones so dry
(C Am C Am x2)
(Chorus)
A Cmaj7 But when the sun breaks A Cmaj7 G To no more bullets in Battle Creek A Cmaj7 Then will you make a grave A F For I will be home then G I will be home then F I will be home then G I will be home then
Then
(Interlude)
C Am C Am (note: in the same style as the intro) C Am When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee C Am Made a seam to hem me in C Am There at the fair when our eyes caught, careless C Am Got my heart right pierced by a pin
(C Am C Am)
C Am But oh, did you see all the dead of Manassas C Am All the bellies and the bones and the bile C Am No, I lingered here with the blankets barren C Am And my own belly big with child
(C Am C Am x2)
(Chorus)
A Cmaj7 But when the sun breaks A Cmaj7 G To no more bullets in Battle Creek A Cmaj7 Then will you make a grave A F For I will be home then G I will be home then F I will be home then G I will be home then
(Bridge)
F G Stems and bones and stone walls too G Could keep me from you F Em Skein of skin is all too few G To keep me from you (C Am C Am) (note: in the same style as the intro) C Am But oh my love, though our bodies may be parted C Am Though our skin may not touch skin C Am Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow C Am I will come on the breath of the wind
C Am C Am x2