Mariner's Revenge Song Tab par The Decemberists

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We are two Mariners our ship's sole survivors in this belly of a whale
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It's ribs our ceiling beams it's guts our carpeting I guess we have some time
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to kill 
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You may not remember me I was a child of three and you a lad of eighteen 
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But I remember you and I will relate to you how our histories interweave.
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At the time you were a rake and a rastabout 
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Spending all your money on the whores and hounds Oh-oh
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You had a charming air all cheap and debonair my widowed mother found so
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sweet 

And so she took you in her sheets still warm with him now filled
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with filth and foul disease
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As time wore on you proved a debt-ridden drunken mess
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Leaving my mother a poor consumptive wretch Oh-oh
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And then you disappeared Your gambling arrears the only thing you left
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behind 

And then the magistrate reclaimed our small estate and my poor
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mother lost her mind
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Then one day in spring my dear sweet mother died 
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But before she did I took her hand as she dying cried Oh-oh
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Find him bind him tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters
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drag him to a hole until he wakes up naked clawing at the ceiling of his
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grave, oh-oh." 
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It took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears among the urchins in the
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street 

And then a priory took pity and hired me to keep their vestry nice
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and neat
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But never once in the employ of these holy men did I ever once turn my mind
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from the thought of revenge Oh-oh
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One night I overheard the prior exchanging words with a penetant whaler from
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the sea

The captain of his ship who matched you toe to tip was known for a
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wanton cruelty
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The following day I shipped to sea with the privateer And in the whistle of
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the wind I could almost hear oh-oh
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Find him bind him tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters
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drag him to a hole until he wakes up naked clawing at the ceiling of his
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grave.
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There is one thing that I must say to you as you sail across the sea 
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Always your mother will watch over you as you avenge this wicked deed


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And then one fateful night we had you in our sights after twenty months at sea

Your starboard flank abeam I was getting my muskets clean when came this
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rumbling from beneath
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The ocean shook the sky went black and the captain quailed 
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And before us grew
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the angry jaws of a giant whale oh-oh oh oh-oh
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Don't know how I survived the crew all was chewed alive I must have slipped
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between his teeth But oh what providence what divine intelligence that you
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should survive as well as me
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It gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear 
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So lean in close
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and I will whisper the last words you'll hear oh-oh

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