The Decemberists - The mariners revenge song

^AmWe are two Mariners our ship's sole survivors in this belly of a wh^Eale ^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 Sp^Fmending all your money on the whores and h^Eounds O^Fmh-o^Eh ^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 L^Fmeaving my mother a poor consumptive w^Eretch O^Fmh-o^Eh ^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 di^Amed But^Fm before she did I took her hand as she dying c^Eried O^Fmh-o^Eh

F^Fmind him bind him tie him to a pole and break his fin^Amgers to splinters drag him to a hole until he ^Fmwakes up naked clawing at the ceiling of his ^Egrave, ^Fmoh-^Eoh." ^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 ^FmBut never once in the ^Amemploy of these ^Fmholy men did I ever once turn my mind from the thought of ^Erevenge Oh^Fm-oh^{E Am}One night I overheard the prior exchanging words with a penetant whaler from th^Ee sea The c^Eaptain of his ship who matched you toe to tip was known for a wanton ^Amcruelty ^FmThe following day I shipped to sea with the ^Amprivateer And in the whistle of the wind I could almost ^Ehear o^Fmh-o^Eh F^Fmind him bind him tie him to a pole and break his fing^Amers 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 a^Cs you sail across the s^Gea Alw^Amays your mother will watch ^Emover you a^Fms you avenge this wicked de^Eed

^AmAnd then one fateful night we had you in our sights after months at sea ^E Your starboard flank abeam I was getting my muskets clean when came this rumbling from b^Ameneath ^FmThe ocean shook the sky went bla^Amck and the captain q^Fmuailed And before us grew the angry jaws of a giant ^Ewhale oh-oh oh ^Fmoh-^Eoh ^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 S^Fmo lean in close and I will whisper the last words you'll ^Ehear o^Fmh-o^Eh