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The Mariner's Revenge Song

by The Decemberists

Type:
Diatonic
Key:
C
Level:
Intermediate
Posted by:
g0th_c0mmie

 *For Harmonica in Paddy Tuning(3=-3")*

Verses
3  3   -2  3 -3 4
We are two mariners
3     3     3  -2 3 -3 4
Our ships' sole survivors
3   3   3 -3  4  4 -4 -3 
In this belly of a whale
-4  -4   -4  -4  4    -3
Its ribs are ceiling beams
-4  -4   -4  -4  4 -3
Its guts are carpeting
-4 -4  -4  -4    4   -3   4   4  3
I guess we have some time to kill

3   3   3  -2  3 -3  4
You may not remember me
3  3 -2  3    -3   4
I was a child of three
3   3   -2  3  -3  4  -4 -3
And you, a lad of eighteen
4  -4 -4 -4 4  -3
But I remember you
4  -4 -4  -4 -4   4 -3
And I will relay to you
-4  -4  -4  4 -3  -3 -3  4  3
How our histories interweave
4  -3  3    4    -3
At the time you were
3  4   -3 -3  3  -2" 2
A rake and a roustabout
4    -3  3   4    -3 3
Spending all your money
-4 4   -3     4    -3
On the whores and hounds
-2" 2
(-5 5)
Oh  oh

Chorus
  4   -3   4    -3
"Find him, bind him
4   -3  3 -3  4   -3   3    -3
Tie him to a pole and break his
4  -3  -3    4  -3
Fingers to splinters
4    -3  3 -3  4   -3 3  -3
Drag him to a hole until he
 4   -3  4 -3
Wakes up naked
4   -3  3  -3  -4  4   -3 4   -3
Clawing at the ceiling of his grave"

Bridge
  5    5   5   5   -4  4   -4 -3  -2
"There is one thing I must say to you
5   5   5   5  -4   4  -4
As you sail across the sea
4  4     4   4   4   -3   3   -3 -2  2
Always, your mother will watch over you
4  4   -4  4   4   -3  3   -3
As you avenge this wicked deed"

Waltz
-4 . 5 -5 . 6 
-6 7 -6 -6 6 -5
6 . . 5 . .
6 -5 5 -6 6 -5

-4 . 5 -5 . 6 
-6 7 -6 -6 6 -5
6 . . 5 . .
6 -5 5 -6 6 -5

5 . . -7. . . 8. . .

Outro
4 -3 4 -3
4 -3 3 -3 4 -3 3 -3
4 -3 4 -3
4 -3 3 -3 4 -3 3 -3
4 -3 4 -3
4 -3 3 -3 4 -3 4 -4
5.... -5  6 -5 5..

-5 5 3

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