Bagmans Gambit Tab by Decemberists
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Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Picaresque
Song: The Bagman's Gambit
Note: Section "I" here has many variations. Try them all and play the one you like!
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(Intro:)
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On the lam from the law
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On the steps of the capital
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You shot a plainclothes cop on the ten o'clock
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And I saw momentarily
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They flashed a photograph, it couldn't be you
II
You'd been abused so horribly
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But you were there in some anonymous room
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And I recall that fall
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I was working for the government
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And in a bathroom stall off the national mall
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How we kissed so sweetly
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How could I refuse a favor or two
II
And for a tryst in the greenery
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I gave you documents and microfilm too
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And from my ten floor tenement
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Where once our bodies lay
C
How I longed to hear you say
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"No they'll never catch me now
Cm
No they'll never catch me
Am F
No they cannot catch me now
E F
We will escape somehow
Fm
Somehow, oh"
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It was late one night
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I was awoken by the telephone
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I heard a strangled cry on the end of the line
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Purloined in Petrograd
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They were suspicious of where your loyalties lay
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So I paid off a bureaucrat
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To convince your captors there to secret you away
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And at the gate of the embassy
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Our hands met through the bars
C
As your whisper stilled my heart
Cm G
"No they'll never catch me now
Cm
No they'll never catch me
Am F
No they cannot catch me now
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We will escape somehow
Fm
Somehow, oh"
(Interlude:)
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And I dreamt one night
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You were there in form
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Hands held high
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In uniform
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Oh
F#
Oh
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It was ten years on
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When you resurfaced in a motorcar
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And with the wave of an arm you were there and gone
