E Watson Cifras

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                             E. WATSON - The Decemberists
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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 E and A strings) Hearing the song will help it make sense.
 
Three fills are repeated throughout the song:
 
[intro fill]:
e|------0---0-----0-0-0-0-0-0--0-----|
B|------0---0-----3/5-5-5-5\3--0-----|
G|------0---0------------------------|
D|------2---2------------------------|
A|------2---2------------------------|
E|--0--------------------------------|
 
fill 2 (verse fill):
e|------0-----------0----------------|
B|------0-----------0----------------|
G|------0-----------0----------------|
D|------2-----------2----------------|
A|------2--0h2------2----------------|
E|--0------------0-------------------|
 
fill 3 (chorus fill):
-------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|----------0h2---0---------0--------|
D|----0h2---------------0h2----------|
A|----------------------------3------|
E|-----------------------------------|
 
 
[Intro]
(Fill 1) x4
 
[Verse 1]
    Em                               A                    G
The air all painted pallid grey, the storm was comin' in
 
Dsus2               /C    /B    Em  (fill 2)
Folks were lining out in all directions
 
Em                              A                      G
Me an Holt and Henry Short were pitchin' on the skiff,
 
Dsus2               /C    /B        Em  (fill 2)
Trying to make it home before the night
 
     Bm/B /F#  /B /F#   A
And the grey waves were rollin',
 
Bm/B /F# /B     /F#  A
Bold the brave, brave ocean
 
    G                     Em (Fill 1)x2
And rolled us suckers in
 
[Verse 2]
 
    Em                             A                     G
Well I don't keep to goings on, I tend to stick with kin
 
    Dsus2         /C     /B      Em (Fill 2)
But Watson had it in from the beginning
 
   Em                                  A                        G
He built that house on Chatham bend, a whitewashed knotted pine
 
Dsus2         /C     /B       Em (Fill 2)
Ninety acres furrowed for the cane
 
     Bm/B /F#  /B /F#     A
And he drove it down from Georgia
 
 Bm/B /F#  /B /F#   A
His dad a martyred soldier
 
       G                 Em  (Fill 1) /G
In the war between the States
 
 
 
[Chorus]
 
 A                 G     Dsus2  /D  /C  /B
Lord, bring down the flood
 
 A           G    Dsus2
Wash away the blood
 
    /C     /B      Em
And drown these everglades
 
    /C     /B      Em
And put us in our place
 
Bm/B      /F#  /B  /F#       C
(Fill 3)
We layed Edgar Watson in his grave
 
   G                     Em (Fill 1)x4
We layed him in his grave
 
[Verse 3]
 
Em                            A                   G
Till I'm dust I'll never know why he came ashore
 
Dsus2                  /C      /B        Em (Fill 2)
With all those killers gathered on the shorelines
 
Em                              A                   G
Kicking holes in ugly mud, with trigger fingers pinched
 
Dsus2            /C        /B        Em  (Fill 2)
A brace of rifles bristled in the wind
 
Bm/B /F#  /B /F#   A
And we towed his body northbound
 
 Bm/B /F#  /B  /F#   A
And buried him all face down
 
        G               Em (Fill 1)  /G
With a good view into hell
 
[Chorus]
 
 A                 G     Dsus2 /D  /C  /B
Lord, bring down the flood
 
 A           G    Dsus2
Wash away the blood
 
    /C     /B      Em
And drown these everglades
 
    /C     /B      Em
And put us in our place
 
Bm/B      /F#  /B  /F#       C
(Fill 3)
We layed Edgar Watson in his grave
 
   G                     Em  (Fill 1)
We layed him in his grave
 
  Em                     Em  (Fill 1)
We layed him in his grave
 
 Em                  (Fill 1)x3 Em
We layed him in his gra____ve
 
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