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Down By The Water by The Decemberists - Guitar Chords

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Version 2 Version 3

            Song: "Down By The Water"
Artist: The Decemberists
Album: The King Is Dead (Down By The Water Release) - 2010/2011


Em |0-2-2-0-0-0|
G  |3-2-0-0-0-3|
D  |x-x-0-2-3-2| or D/F# |2-x-0-2-3-2|
C  |x-3-2-0-1-0| or C/G  |3-3-2-0-1-0|

(Note on the intro, I made it like a lead sheet you'd see in a jazz band:
The upward line is a bar line, the slashes are the same chords based on
rhythm/spacing. The Em is played in the same rhythm as the chords before it,
but the D major chord is played as two staccato quarter notes; you'll hear
it in the song)


Harmonica in a key of G plays during the [Intro] and during [Break]:

Harmonica tabs:
7 6   -6      -6 6 5 6  5      -4


[Intro]

|   C   |   Em   |   C   |   Em / |   D / |


[Verse]

Em               G
See this ancient riverbed
D                 C
See where all the follies led
Em                        D                  Em
Down by the water, (and) down by the old main drag

Em             G
I was just some towhead teen
D                       C
Feelin' 'round for fingers to get in-between
Em                   D                 Em
Down by the water, down by the old main drag


[Pre-Chorus]

Em         D       Em
The season rubs me wrong
Em        D      C
The summer swells anon


[Chorus]

             Em           G
So knock me down, tear me up
            D                          C
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Em                    D                    Em
Down by the water and down by the old main drag


[Break]

|   C   |   Em   |   C   |   Em / |   D / |

Harmonica tabs:
7 6   -6      -6 6 5 6  5      -4


[Verse]

Em                 G
Sweet descend this rabble 'round
    D                      C
the pretty little patter of a seaport town
Em                        D                      Em
Rolling in the water and rolling down the old main drag

Em              G
All dolled up in gabardine
D                         C
The lash-flashing Leda of pier nineteen
Em                    D                  Em
Queen of the water and queen of the old main drag


[Pre-Chorus]

Em        D        Em
The season rubs me wrong
Em        D      C
The summer swells anon


[Chorus]

             Em           G
So knock me down, tear me up
            D                          C
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Em                    D                    Em
Down by the water and down by the old main drag


[Break/Solos]

| C | Em | C | Em  D  |
| Em | G | D | C | Em | D


[Pre-Chorus]

Em        D        Em
The season rubs me wrong
Em        D      C
The summer swells anon


[Chorus]

             Em           G
So knock me down, tear me up
            D                          C
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Em                    D                    Em
Down by the water and down by the old main drag


[Outro/Coda]

Em                    D                    Em
Down by the water and down by the old main drag
C                     D                    Em
Down by the water and down by the old main drag

(There's a ritardando in the last line, you'll hear it) 
        

We also have 16 songs by The Decemberists

• 16 Military Wives
• Dont Carry It All
• Down By The Water
• Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
• June Hymn
• Make You Better
• Mariners Revenge Song
• O Valencia
• On The Bus Mall
• Red Right Ankle
• Rox In The Box
• Shankill Butchers
• Sons And Daughters
• The Crane Wife 3
• The Engine Driver
• We Both Go Down Together

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