. WATSON - The Decemberists
Tabbed by: Daysleeper_05
Tuning:Standard
From the "Long Live the King" EP.
Letters with slashes in front of them signify the change of the BASS NOTE of the
preceding chord. (on the low and strings) Hearing the song will help it make sense.
Three fills are repeated throughout the song:
fill 1(intro):
fill 2 (verse fill):
fill 3 (chorus fill):
(Fill 1) x4
The air all painted pallid grey, the storm was comin' in
/ / (fill 2)
Folks were lining out in all directions
Me an Holt and Henry Short were pitchin' on the skiff,
/ / (fill 2)
Trying to make it home before the night
/ / /
And the grey waves were rollin',
/ / /
Bold the brave, brave ocean
(Fill 1)x2
And rolled us suckers in
Well I don't keep to goings on, I tend to stick with kin
/ / (Fill 2)
But Watson had it in from the beginning
He built that house on Chatham bend, a whitewashed knotted pine
/ / (Fill 2)
Ninety acres furrowed for the cane
/ / /
And he drove it down from Georgia
/ / /
His dad a martyred soldier
(Fill 1) /
In the war between the States
/ / /
Lord, bring down the flood
Wash away the blood
/ /
And drown these everglades
/ /
And put us in our place
/ / /
(Fill 3)
We layed Edgar Watson in his grave
(Fill 1)x4
We layed him in his grave
Till I'm dust I'll never know why he came ashore
/ / (Fill 2)
With all those killers gathered on the shorelines
Kicking holes in ugly mud, with trigger fingers pinched
/ / (Fill 2)
A brace of rifles bristled in the wind
/ / /
And we towed his body northbound
/ / /
And buried him all face down
(Fill 1) /
With a good view into hell
/ / /
Lord, bring down the flood
Wash away the blood
/ /
And drown these everglades
/ /
And put us in our place
/ / /
(Fill 3)
We layed Edgar Watson in his grave
(Fill 1)
We layed him in his grave
(Fill 1)
We layed him in his grave
(Fill 1)x3
We layed him in his gra____ve
End
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