{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":198996,"song":"A Cautionary Song","artist":"The Decemberists","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11218680-a-cautionary-song-chords-by-the-decemberists/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/198996?type=chord","rating":4.6825,"votes":61,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Dm/A[/ch] (x4)\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]Dm/A[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]Dm/A[/ch]            [ch]G/D[/ch]\r\nThere's a place your mother goes, when everybody else is soundly sleeping [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                    [ch]Dm/A[/ch]\r\nThrough the lights of beacon street [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]Dm/A[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd if you listen you can hear her weeping, [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nShe's weeping, cause the gentlemen are calling  [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the snow is softly falling on her petticoats. [/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nAnd she's standing in the harbour [/tab]\r\n[tab]                                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd she's waiting for the sailors in the jolly boat. [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSee how they approach [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]Dm/A[/ch]               [ch]Dm[/ch]                 [ch]Dm/A[/ch]\r\nWith dirty hands and trousers torn they grapple 'til she's safe[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G/D[/ch]\r\nwithin their keeping [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Dm[/ch]              [ch]Dm/A[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]             [ch]Dm/A[/ch]\r\nA gag is placed between her lips to keep her sorry tongue from[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nany speaking, or screaming [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nAnd they row her out to packets where the sailor's sorry racket[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\ncalls for maidenhead [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nAnd she's scarce above the gunwales when her clothes fall to a[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nbundle and she's laid in bed on the upper deck [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]Gm[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nLa la la la laa,la la la laa,[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]Dm/A[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]                  [ch]Dm/A[/ch]\r\nAnd so she goes from ship to ship, her ankles clasped, her arms[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G/D[/ch]\r\nso rudely pinioned [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                 [ch]Dm/A[/ch]          [ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]Dm/A[/ch]\r\nTill at last she's satisfied the lot of the marina's teeming[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nminions, in their opinions [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nAnd they tell her not to say a thing to cousin, kindred, kith or[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nkin or she'll end up dead [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nAnd they throw her thirty dollars and return her to the harbour[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nwhere she goes to bed, and this is how you're fed [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Gm[/ch]                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo be kind to your mother, though she may seem an awful bother,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Gm[/ch]                                      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand the next time she tries to feed you collard greens,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                          [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nRemember what she does when you're asleep[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nDm Dm/A (x4)\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\n\n\n[Verse]","chords":["Dm","Dm/A","G/D","G","A","Bb","F","Gm"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"Gm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[3,5,5,3,3,3]}}}