Chords for The Decemberists - The Rake's Song - Live at Rock the Garden 2009

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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ [Em] I _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _
_ [G] _ _ [Em] had [G] entered [Em] into a [G] marriage [Em] in the [G] summer of my [Em]
21st [G] year, [Em] and the [G] bells rang [Em] for our wedding.
Only now do I remember it clear, [A] all right, _ all [C] right, [G] all right. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] No more a [G] rake and [Em] no more a bachelor.
I was wedded and it wetted my thirst, _ until her womb started spilling out babies.
Only then did I reckon my curse, all [A] right, _ all [C] right, [G] all right, _ _ _ _ all [A] _ right, all _ _ [G] right. _ _ _ _ _
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_ First came Isaiah with his crinkled little fingers.
Then came Charlotte and that wretched girl Dawn.
I claimed my family died on delivery.
I'm simply taking her mother along, all [Am] right, _ [C] all right, all [G] right.
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_ [G] What can one do when one is a widower?
Shamefully saddled with three little pests.
All that I wanted was the freedom of a new flight.
So my wedding I began to divest, [A] all right, _ [C] all right, all [G] _ [Em] right, _ [G] _ _ [E] _
[A] all right, _ [C] all right, all [G] right.
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
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_ [G] _ Charlotte got buried after feeding [E] her fox [G] club.
[Em] Dawn was easy, [G] she was round [E] in the [G] bath.
Isaiah fought but was easily bested.
Learned his body for a current fire.
_ [Am] _ _ _ [C] All right, all right.
[G] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
[G] And that's how I came to your humble marriage.
It would be living so easy and free.
Expect that shit make that I should be on set.
But it never really bothered me, [Am] all right, _ _ [C] all right, _
_ [G] all [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
_ [A] right, _ [C] all right, all [Em] right.
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
All right. _ _ _ _ _ _ _