The Decemberists The Mariners Revenge Song Ukulele chords

The Mariners Revenge Song Ukulele by The Decemberists

(Intro:)
Bm

Bm
We are two mariners, our ships' sole survivors
                   B
In this belly of a whale

Its ribs our ceiling beams, its guts our carpeting
                             Bm
I guess we have some time to kill

You may not remember me, I was a child of three
                     B
And you a lad of eighteen

But I remember you and I will relate to you
                       Bm
How our histories interweave
G                                       Bm
At the time you were a rake and a roustabout
G                                         B       G B
Spending all your money on the whores and hounds, oh

Bm
You had a charming air, all cheap and debonair
                           B
My widowed mother found so sweet

And so she took you in, her sheets still warm with him
                                 Bm
Now filled with filth and foul disease
   G                                             Bm
As time wore on you proved a dead-ridden drunken mess
G                                    B       G B
Leaving my mother a poor consumptive wretch, oh

Bm
And then you dissapeared, your gambling arrears
                        B
The only thing you left behind

And then the magistrate reclaimed our small estate
                            Bm
And my poor mother lost her mind
G                                           Bm
Then one day in spring my dear sweet mother died
      G                                         B      G B
But before she did I took her hand as she dying cried, oh

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"Find him, bind him

Tie him to a pole and break his
Bm
Fingers to splinters

Throw him to a hole until he
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Wakes up naked
                              B      G B
Clawing at the ceiling of his grave"

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It took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears
                         B
Among the urchins in the street

Until a priory took pity and hired me
                              Bm
To keep their vestry nice and neat
    G                                      Bm
But never once in the employ of these holy men
    G                                              B      G B
Did I ever once stir my mind from the thought of revenge, oh

Bm
One night I overheard the prior exhanging words
                                B
With a penitent whaler from the sea

The captain of his ship who matched you toe to tip
                          Bm
Was known for wanton cruelty
    G                                          Bm
The following day I shipped to sea with a privateer
    G                                         B     G B
And in the whistle of the wind I could almost hear, oh


 Am
"Find him, bind him

Tie him to a pole and break his
Bm
Fingers to splinters

Throw him to a hole until he
Am
Wakes up naked
                              B      G B
Clawing at the ceiling of his grave

G                         D
There is one thing I must say to you
G                      D
As you sail across the sea
Bm                            Bm
Always your mother will watch over you
G                         B
As you avenge this wicked deed"

(Interlude:)
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Bm
And then that fateful night we had you in our sight
                       B
After twenty months at sea

Your starboard flank a beam, I was getting my muskets clean
                             Bm
when came this rumbling from beneath
    G                                                Bm
The ocean stirred the sky went black and the captain quailed
    G                                        B      G B
And before us grew the angry jaws of a giant whale, oh

Bm
Don't know how I survived, the crew all was chewed alive
                                B
I must have slipped between his teeth

But oh what providence, what divine intelligence
                                   Bm
That you should survive as well as me
   G                                                   Bm
It gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear
   G                                                      B     G B
So lean in close and I will whisper the last words you'll hear, oh

(Outro:)
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Am Bm Am B G B (accelerate)