Artist: The Decemberists
Album: The King Is Dead
Song: Calamity Song
Tabbed by: Hunter MacDermut
Intro
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Verse (over Intro x2)
Had a dream
You and me and the war at the end-times
And I believe
California succumbed to the fault line
We heaved relief
As scores of innocents died
Chorus
G D
And the Andalusian tribes
G D
Setting the lay of Nebraska alight
A G
'Til all that remain is the arms of the angels
Verse
Hetty Green
Queen of supply-side bonhomie bone-drab
(Know what I mean?)
On the road
It's well advised that you follow your own bag
In the year of the chewable Ambien tab
Chorus
And the Panamanian child
Stands at the dowager empress' side
And all that remain is the arms of the angels
And all that remain is the arms of the angels
Transition
D G
Ah ooh, ah ooh ooh ooh oh x2
Bridge
Em A
When you've receded into loam
Em A
And they're picking at your bones
G (repeat Intro)
We'll come home, we'll come home
Verse
Quiet now
Will we gather to conjure the rain down?
Will we now
Build a civilization below ground?
And I'll be crowned community kick-it-around
Chorus
And the Andalusian tribes
Setting the lay of Nebraska alight
'Til all that remain is the arms of the angels
'Til all that remain is the arms of the angels
Coda
D G
Ah ooh, ah ooh ooh ooh oh x4
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