• Song:

    Yankee Bayonet

  • Artist:

    Decemberists

Artist Related tabs and Sheet Music

(Intro)
C Am C Am
(note: the intro lick uses Cadd9, if you're lazy and don't wanna play the riff you can 
add the ninth after defining the chord)

C (x32010@1)                      AmHeart-carved (x02210@1)tree trunk, Yankee bayonet
C (x32010@1)                 AmA (x02210@1)sweetheart left behind
C (x32010@1)                       AmFar (x02210@1)from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas
C (x32010@1)             AmThat's (x02210@1)where my true love lies

(C Am C Am)

C (x32010@1)                  AmLook (x02210@1)for me when the sun-bright swallow
C (x32010@1)            AmSings (x02210@1)upon the birch bough high
C (x32010@1)                                AmBut (x02210@1)you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils
C (x32010@1)                           AmAll (x02210@1)a'chew upon your bones so dry

(C Am C Am x2)

(Chorus)
A (x02220@1)          Cmaj7But (x32000@1)when the sun breaks
A (x02220@1)        Cmaj7 (x32000@1)    GTo (320003@1)no more bullets in Battle Creek
A (x02220@1)           Cmaj7Then (x32000@1)will you make a grave
A (x02220@1)           FFor (133211@1)I will be home then
          GI (320003@1)will be home then
          FI (133211@1)will be home then
          GI (320003@1)will be home then

Then

(Interlude)
C Am C Am
(note: in the same style as the intro)

C (x32010@1)                       AmWhen (x02210@1)I was a girl how the hills of Oconee
C (x32010@1)                   AmMade (x02210@1)a seam to hem me in
C (x32010@1)                        AmThere (x02210@1)at the fair when our eyes caught, careless
       C (x32010@1)                      AmGot (x02210@1)my heart right pierced by a pin

(C Am C Am)

C (x32010@1)                     AmBut (x02210@1)oh, did you see all the dead of Manassas
        C (x32010@1)                           AmAll (x02210@1)the bellies and the bones and the bile
    C (x32010@1)                      AmNo, (x02210@1)I lingered here with the blankets barren
       C (x32010@1)                AmAnd (x02210@1)my own belly big with child

(C Am C Am x2)

(Chorus)
A (x02220@1)          Cmaj7But (x32000@1)when the sun breaks
A (x02220@1)        Cmaj7 (x32000@1)    GTo (320003@1)no more bullets in Battle Creek
A (x02220@1)           Cmaj7Then (x32000@1)will you make a grave
A (x02220@1)           FFor (133211@1)I will be home then
          GI (320003@1)will be home then
          FI (133211@1)will be home then
          GI (320003@1)will be home then

(Bridge)
F (133211@1)                             GStems (320003@1)and bones and stone walls too
GCould (320003@1)keep me from you
F (133211@1)                      EmSkein (022000@1)of skin is all too few
GTo (320003@1)keep me from you

(C Am C Am)
(note: in the same style as the intro)

C (x32010@1)                    AmBut (x02210@1)oh my love, though our bodies may be parted
           C (x32010@1)                AmThough (x02210@1)our skin may not touch skin
C (x32010@1)                  AmLook (x02210@1)for me with the sun-bright sparrow
       C (x32010@1)                       AmI (x02210@1)will come on the breath of the wind

C Am C Am x2
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