Songbook

Don't Carry It All

By The Decemberists

Key of G

[Verse]
G					                                	Em	D
Here we come to a turning of the season
G					                           	Em	D
Witness to the arc towards the sun
  G                                 						Em	D
A neighbor's blessed burden, within reason
  G
Becomes a burden borne of all in one
    Em	     D	     C
And nobody, nobody knows

[Chorus]
C			                       G
Let the yoke fall from our shoulders
C			   	                           Em
Don't carry it all, don't carry it all
C			                     G
We are all our hands and holders
	            Bm		              	C
Beneath this bold and brilliant sun
		              G				Em	D
This I swear to all

[Verse]
  G                             						Em	D
A monument to build beneath the arbors
 G	                                  					Em	D
Upon a cliff that towers towards the trees
    G                                						Em	D
Let every vessel pitching hard to starboard
G
Lay its head on summer's freckled knees
    Em	     D	     C
And nobody, nobody knows

[Chorus]
C			                       G
Let the yoke fall from our shoulders
C			   	                           Em
Don't carry it all, don't carry it all
C			                     G
We are all our hands and holders
	            Bm		              	C
Beneath this bold and brilliant sun
		              G				Em	D
This I swear to all

G						Em	D

[Bridge]
Bm			                         C
Bear a wreath of trillium and ivy
Bm			                     Em
Lay it upon the body of a boy
Bm			                            C
Lazy will the love come from its hiding
     Am               			      	     D
To return this quiet searcher to the soil

[Verse]
G							                                  Em	D
So raise a glass to turnings of the season
    G		                           					Em	D
And watch it as it arcs towards the sun
             G	                                 						Em	D
And you must bear your neighbors' burden within reason
         G
And your labors will be borne when all is done
    Em	     D	     C
And nobody, nobody knows

[Chorus]
C			                       G
Let the yoke fall from our shoulders
C			   	                           Em
Don't carry it all, don't carry it all
C			                     G
We are all our hands and holders
	            Bm		              	C
Beneath this bold and brilliant sun
		              G				Em	D
This I swear to all
		              G				Em	D
This I swear to all
		              G				Em	D
This I swear to all
		              G				Em	D
This I swear to all

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