Chord The Mariners Revenge Song by Decemberists

intro : Am Am we are two mariners , our ships’ sole survivors E in this belly of a whale its ribs our ceiling beams , its guts our carpeting Am i guess we have some time to kill you may not remember me , i was a child of three E and you a lad of eighteen but i remember you and i will relate to you Am how our histories interweave F Am at the time you were a rake and a roustabout F E F E spending all your money on the whores and hounds , oh Am you had a charming air , all cheap and debonair E my widowed mother found so sweet and so she took you in , her sheets still warm with him Am now filled with filth and foul disease F Am as time wore on you proved a dead - ridden drunken mess F E F E leaving my mother a poor consumptive wretch , oh Am and then you dissapeared , your gambling arrears E the only thing you left behind and then the magistrate reclaimed our small estate Am and my poor mother lost her mind F Am then one day in spring my dear sweet mother died F E F E but before she did i took her hand as she dying cried , oh Dm "find him , bind him tie him to a pole and break his Am fingers to splinters throw him to a hole until he Dm wakes up naked E F E clawing at the ceiling of his grave" Am G Am G Am G Am Am it took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears E among the urchins in the street until a priory took pity and hired me Am to keep their vestry nice and neat F Am but never once in the employ of these holy men F E F E did i ever once stir my mind from the thought of revenge , oh Am one night i overheard the prior exhanging words E with a penitent whaler from the sea the captain of his ship who matched you toe to tip Am was known for wanton cruelty F Am the following day i shipped to sea with a privateer F E F E and in the whistle of the wind i could almost hear , oh Dm "find him , bind him tie him to a pole and break his Am fingers to splinters throw him to a hole until he Dm wakes up naked E F E clawing at the ceiling of his grave C G there is one thing i must say to you C G as you sail across the sea Am Em always your mother will watch over you F E as you avenge this wicked deed" interlude : Dm Am Dm E Dm Am Dm E Dm Am Dm E Dm Am Dm E Am and then that fateful night we had you in our sight E after twenty months at sea your starboard flank a beam , i was getting my muskets clean Am when came this rumbling from beneath F Am the ocean stirred the sky went black and the captain quailed F E F E and before us grew the angry jaws of a giant whale , oh Am don’t know how i survived , the crew all was chewed alive E i must have slipped between his teeth but oh what providence , what divine intelligence Am that you should survive as well as me F Am it gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear F E F E so lean in close and i will whisper the last words you’ll hear , oh outro : Dm Am Dm E F E Dm Am Dm E F E Dm Am Dm E F E Dm Am Dm E F E Dm Am Dm E F E accelerate