Decemberists - Mariners revenge song

^AmWe are two Mariners, our ship's sole survivors, in this belly of a ^Ewhale ^EIt's ribs our ceiling beams, it's guts our carpeting, I guess we have some time to ^Amkill. You may not remember me, I was a child of three, and you a lad of ^Eeighteen. But I remember you, and I will relate to you, how our histories interwe^Amave. ^FmAt the time you were a rake and a rastabo^Amut. S^Fmpending all your money on the whores and h^Eounds. ^FmOh-^Eoh ^AmYou had a charming air, all cheap and debonair, my widowed mother found so ^Esweet. And so she took you in, her sheets still warm with him, now filled with filth and fowl ^Amdisease. ^FmAs time wore on you proved a debt-ridden drunken ^Ammess. ^FmLeaving my mother a poor consumptive w^Eretch. ^FmOh-^Eoh ^AmAnd then you disappeared. Your gambling arrears, the only thing you left ^Ebehind. And then the magistrate, reclaimed our small estate, and my poor mother lost her ^Ammind. ^FmThen one day in spring my dear, sweet mother d^Amied. B^Fmut before she did I took her hand as she dying c^Eried, ^FmOh-^Eoh, &^Fmquot;Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break^Am his fingers to splinters, drag him to a hole until he ^Fmwakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his ^Egrave, ^Fmoh-^Eoh." (Little Am fill right here) ^AmIt took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears, among the urchins in the ^Estreet. And then a priory, took pity and hired me to keep their vestry nice and n^Ameat. Fm (c-ish) Am(c-ish) Fm(c-ish) But never once in the employ of these holy men, did I ever once turn my mind E(c-ish) Fm E from the thought of revenge. Oh-oh. Am(harsh double strum for this part) One night I overheard, the prior exchanging words with a penetant whaler from E(smooth) E(harsh double strum) the sea. The captain of his ship, who matched you toe to tip, was known for a Am(smooth) wanton cruelty. ^FmThe following day I shipped to sea with the ^Amprivateer. And in the whistle of the wind I could almost ^Ehear, ^Fmoh-^Eoh. &^Fmquot;Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break ^Amhis fingers to splinters, drag him to a whole until he ^Fmwakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his ^Egrave. ^CThere is one thing I must ^Gsay to you, ^Cas you sail across the ^Gsea. A^Amlways your mother will watch ^Emover you, ^Fmas you avenge this wicked d^Eeed.

^AmAnd then one fateful night, we had you in our sights, after 20 months at ^Esea. Your starboard flank abeam, I was getting my muskets clean, when came this rumbling from b^Ameneath. Fm(c-ish) Am(c-ish) Fm(c-ish) The ocean shook, the sky went black and the captain quailed. And before us E (candenza) Fm E grew the angry jaws of a giant whale, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh ^AmDon't know how I survived, the crew all was chewed alive, I must have slipped between his ^Eteeth. But oh what providence, what divine intelligence, that you should survive as well as ^Amme. ^FmIt gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with ^Amfear. ^FmSo lean in close and I will whisper the last words you'll ^Ehear, ^Fmoh-^Eoh