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Artist: The Decemberists
 Album: The Crane Wife
  Song: Summersong

[http://www.indieguitartabs.com/bands/decemberists/08_summersong.html]

Tabbed by: Steve Goldberg (decemberists.com/orate)



Capo 4

Riff (relative to capo):
e|--5-3-5--------------------------|--------
B|--------5----3-5-3---------------|--------
G|-------------------5----4-5-4----|--------
D|------------------------------2--|--------
A|---------------------------------|--------
E|---------------------------------|--3---4-

Intro/verse: || Am | C | Em | G (walk G# bass in intro) ||
(last time before chorus) || Am | Cmaj7 | Em | Em D/F# ||
Chorus (And summer arrives...): || G | G | Am | Cmaj7 | Em | Em | Am | Cmaj7 | Em | Em | Am | F | F | C | G ||

Am       C 
Ramblin' where to begin
Em                         G
I taste the summer on your peppery skin
Am             C
Been saved the warmer the waves
Em                   G
I felt a slip into a watery grave

   Am   C     Em   G        Am        C     Em   G
Oh oh,  uh ho ho,     la de da de da, uh ho ho, 

Am       C
My girl, linen and curls
Em                  G
Lips parting like a flag all unfurled
Am              C
She's grand the bend of her hand
Em                                 G
Digging deep into the sweep of the sand

G      Am       Cmaj7 
Summer arrives (oh oh oh oh)
Em               Am       Cmaj7
with a length of lights  (oh oh oh oh)
Em     Am    F
Summer blows away
    C            G              (intro)  Am  C  Em
And quietly gets swallowed by a wave
G
It gets swallowed by a wave

(intro)  Am  C  Em G

Am         C
Waylay the din of the day
Em                   G
Boats bobbing in the blue of the bay
Am      C           
In deep far beneath
Em                   G
all the dead sailors Slowly slipping to sleep

Am       C
My girl, linen and curls
Em                  G
Lips parting like a flag all unfurled
Am              C
She's grand the bend of her hand
Em                                 G
Digging deep into the sweep of the sand

G      Am       Cmaj7 
Summer arrives (oh oh oh oh)
Em               Am       Cmaj7
with a length of lights  (oh oh oh oh)
Em     Am    F
Summer blows away
    C            G              (intro)  Am  C  Em
And quietly gets swallowed by a wave
G
It gets swallowed by a wave