{"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":271523,"song":"Mariners Revenge Song","artist":"The Decemberists","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11220623-mariners-revenge-song-chords-by-the-decemberists/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/271523?type=chord","rating":4.70049,"votes":245,"content":"\"Mariner's Revenge Song\" off Picaresque by the Decemberists\r\n\r\nLong song, easy guitar part. Settle in, this is the guitar part for the ENTIRE song.\r\nAll 8 minutes and 7 seconds of it.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWe are two Mariners, our ship's sole survivors, in this belly of a whale[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nIts ribs our ceiling beams, its guts our carpeting, I guess we have some time[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nto kill. You may not remember me, I was a child of three, and you a lad of[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\neighteen. But I remember you, and I will relate to you, how our histories[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\ninterweave.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                       [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAt the time you were a rake and a rastabout. Spending all your money on the[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nwhores and hounds. Oh-oh.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou had a charming air, all cheap and debonair, my widowed mother found so[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nsweet. And so she took you in, her sheets still warm with him, now filled[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nwith filth and foul disease.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                               [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAs time wore on you proved a debt-ridden drunken mess. Leaving my mother a[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\npoor consumptive wretch. Oh-oh.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd then you disappeared. Your gambling arrears, the only thing you left[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nbehind. And then the magistrate, reclaimed our small estate, and my poor[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nmother lost her mind.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                            [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThen one day in spring my dear, sweet mother died. But before she did I took[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nher hand as she dying cried, Oh-oh,[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]                                                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\ndrag him to a hole until he wakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]\r\ngrave, oh-oh.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears, among the urchins in the[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nstreet. And then a priory, took pity and hired me to keep their vestry nice[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand neat.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                          [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBut never once in the employ of these holy men, did I ever once turn my mind[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nfrom the thought of revenge. Oh-oh.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse] \r\nAm (harsh double strum for this part)\r\nOne night I overheard, the prior exchanging words with a penetant whaler from\r\n    E (smooth)  E (harsh double strum)\r\nthe sea. The captain of his ship, who matched you toe to tip, was known for a\r\n            Am (smooth)\r\nwanton cruelty.\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                                [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe following day I shipped to sea with the privateer. And in the whistle of[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nthe wind I could almost hear, oh-oh.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]                                                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\ndrag him to a whole until he wakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\ngrave.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThere is one thing I must say to you, as you sail across the sea. Always your[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nmother will watch over you, as you avenge this wicked deed.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                                                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd then one fateful night, we had you in our sights, after 20 months at sea.[/tab]\r\n\r\nYour starboard flank abeam, I was getting my muskets clean, when came this\r\n[tab]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nrumbling from beneath.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                                               [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe ocean shook, the sky went black and the captain quailed. And before us[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\ngrew the angry jaws of a giant whale, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDon't know how I survived, the crew all was chewed alive, I must have slipped[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nbetween his teeth. But oh what providence, what divine intelligence, that you[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nshould survive as well as me.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                                                      [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIt gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear. So lean in close[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                         [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nand I will whisper the last words you'll hear, oh-oh.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Solo]\r\n(all on high E)\r\n\r\n[tab]e|--8--7--8--7--8-7-5-7-8-7-5-7--| x2\r\nB|-------------------------------|\r\nG|-------------------------------|\r\nD|-------------------------------|\r\nA|-------------------------------|\r\nE|-------------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]e|--8--7--8--7--8-7-5-7-8-5-7-8--12(hold)-10-8-7-5-8-7--|\r\nB|------------------------------------------------------|\r\nG|------------------------------------------------------|\r\nD|------------------------------------------------------|\r\nA|------------------------------------------------------|\r\nE|------------------------------------------------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n(repeat until end of song, get faster and faster each time)","plain_text":"\"Mariner's Revenge Song\" off Picaresque by the Decemberists\n\nLong song, easy guitar part. Settle in, this is the guitar part for the ENTIRE song.\nAll 8 minutes and 7 seconds of it.\n\n\n[Intro]\nAm\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse] \nAm (harsh double strum for this part)\nOne night I overheard, the prior exchanging words with a penetant whaler from\n    E (smooth)  E (harsh double strum)\nthe sea. The captain of his ship, who matched you toe to tip, was known for a\n            Am (smooth)\nwanton cruelty.\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\n\nDm Am Dm E\nDm Am Dm E\nDm Am Dm E\nDm Am Dm E\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\nYour starboard flank abeam, I was getting my muskets clean, when came this\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n[Solo]\n(all on high E)\n\n\n\n\n\n(repeat until end of song, get faster and faster each time)","chords":["Am","E","F","Dm","C","G","Em","B","D","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"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]}}}