The Bachelor and the Bride Lyrics

The Bachelor and the Bride - Decemberists
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Tempo: Upbeat but melancholy, oooh
Capo: 1st fret (fret 1 (not 0) on the tab is fret 1)
Gtr. 1 (12 string Acoustic)
There's a wrinkle in the water
Hear the corncrakes and the deerhooves
M7
Where we laid our first daughter
And the sleet rain on the slate roof
And I think the wind blows so sweetly there
A medallion locked inside her
M7
Over there
hands In her hands
| Gtr. 2 (Electric) |
And the windows and the cinders
And his fingers, are they telling
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And the willows in the timbers
Of the barren of her belly?
The infernal rattling of the rain
Do his calluses cure her furrowed
M7
Still remains
brow, Even now?
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But I, said the bachelor to the
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bride Am not waiting for tonight
No, I, I will
box your ears And leave you here stripped bare
(4th) box your ears and take your tears and (goto OUTRO)
stripped bare
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(2nd time) stripped bare
(3RD time) ah la lo
1st repeat go to VERSE
2nd repeat go to BRIDGE
3rd repeat go to CHORUS
leave you, leave you here stripped bare
Bass and drums play 4 bars of the verse alone
then start up with the verse again without lyrics, maybe solo over it.
Become a jam band.