{"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":1696154,"song":"Lake Song","artist":"The Decemberists","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11356260-lake-song-chords-by-the-decemberists/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1696154?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":100,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nDown by the lake[/tab]\r\nWe were overturning pebbles\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd upending all the animals alight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I took a drag[/tab]\r\nFrom your cigarette and pinched it\r\n'Tween my finger and my thumb\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTill it died[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the sun burned low on the radio[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nSay that you will[/tab]\r\nSay you will or will you won't\r\nOr you whatever you prevaricate\r\n[tab]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYour whole life, don't you?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThis much I can say:[/tab]\r\nI would've waited till the oceans\r\nFell Away and all the sunken cities\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWould reveal themselves to you[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut you won't, will you?[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBecause you never do[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the sun burned through[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSweet as honeydew[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd I[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSeventeen and terminally fey[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F#m[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI wrote it down and threw it all away[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNever gave a thought to what I'd paid[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd you[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSibylline, reclining in your pew[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]                             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou tattered me, you tethered me to you[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe things you would and wouldn't do[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo tell the truth I never had a clue[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]Em[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNow we arise[/tab]\r\nTo curse those young suburban villains\r\n[tab]                                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd their ill-begotten children from the lawn[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nCome to me now[/tab]\r\nAnd on this station wagon window\r\nSet the ghost of your two footprints\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat they might haunt me when you're gone[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd when the light broke dawn[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou were forever gone[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut I remember you, you were full[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou were full and sweet as honeydew[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd I[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSeventeen and terminally fey[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI wrote it down and threw it all away[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd never gave a thought to what I paid[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd you all sibylline, reclining in your pew[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]                                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou tattered me, you tethered me to you[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe things you would and wouldn't do[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou noticed how I never had a clue[/tab]\r\nNever had a clue\r\nYou were full and sweet as honeydew\r\nYou were full and sweet as honeydew","plain_text":"[Intro]\nD\n\n[Verse]\n\nWe were overturning pebbles\n\n\nFrom your cigarette and pinched it\n'Tween my finger and my thumb\n\n\n\nSay you will or will you won't\nOr you whatever you prevaricate\n\n\nI would've waited till the oceans\nFell Away and all the sunken cities\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nEm   D\n\n[Verse]\n\nTo curse those young suburban villains\n\n\nAnd on this station wagon window\nSet the ghost of your two footprints\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNever had a clue\nYou were full and sweet as honeydew\nYou were full and sweet as honeydew","chords":["D","Em","Bm","A","G","F#m"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}