The Mariner's Revenge Song

[Intro] Am

[Verse] Am We are two mariners, our ships' sole survivors E In this belly of a whale Its ribs our ceiling beams, its guts our carpeting Am I guess we have some time to kill You may not remember me, I was a child of three E And you a lad of eighteen But I remember you and I will relate to you Am How our histories interweave F Am At the time you were a rake and a roustabout F E F E Spending all your money on the whores and hounds, oh

[Verse] Am You had a charming air, all cheap and debonair E My widowed mother found so sweet And so she took you in, her sheets still warm with him Am Now filled with filth and foul disease F Am As time wore on you proved a dead-ridden drunken mess F E F E Leaving my mother a poor consumptive wretch, oh

[Verse] Am And then you disappeared, your gambling arrears E The only thing you left behind And then the magistrate reclaimed our small estate Am And my poor mother lost her mind F Am Then one day in spring my dear sweet mother died F E F E But before she did I took her hand as she dying cried, oh

[Chorus] Dm "Find him, bind him Tie him to a pole and break his Am Fingers to splinters Throw him to a hole until he Dm Wakes up naked E F E Clawing at the ceiling of his grave" Am Am Am Am-G Am Am Am Am-G Am Am Am Am-G

[Verse] Am It took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears E Among the urchins in the street Until a priory took pity and hired me Am To keep their vestry nice and neat F Am But never once in the employ of these holy men F E F E Did I ever once stir my mind from the thought of revenge, oh

[Verse] Am One night I overheard the prior exhanging words E With a penitent whaler from the sea The captain of his ship who matched you toe to tip Am Was known for wanton cruelty F Am The following day I shipped to sea with a privateer F E F E And in the whistle of the wind I could almost hear, oh

[Chorus] Dm "Find him, bind him Tie him to a pole and break his Am Fingers to splinters Throw him to a hole until he Dm Wakes up naked E F E Clawing at the ceiling of his grave

[Bridge] C G There is one thing I must say to you C G As you sail across the sea Am Em Always your mother will watch over you F E As you avenge this wicked deed"

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[Verse] Am And then that fateful night we had you in our sight E After twenty months at sea Your starboard flank abeam, I was getting my muskets clean Am when came this rumbling from beneath F Am The ocean stirred, the sky went black, and the captain quailed F E F E And before us grew the angry jaws of a giant whale, oh

[Verse] Am Don't know how I survived, the crew all was chewed alive E I must have slipped between his teeth But oh what providence, what divine intelligence Am That you should survive as well as me F Am It gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear F E F E So lean in close and I will whisper the last words you'll hear, oh

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