Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet

( 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 Am
heart – carved tree trunk , yankee bayonet
C Am
a sweetheart left behind
C Am
far from the hills of the sea – swelled carolinas
C Am
that’s where my true love lies

( C Am C Am )

C Am
look for me when the sun – bright swallow
C Am
sings upon the birch bough high
C Am
but you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils
C Am
all a’chew upon your bones so dry

( C Am C Am x2 )

( chorus )
A Cmaj7
but when the sun breaks
A Cmaj7 G
to no more bullets in battle creek
A Cmaj7
then will you make a grave
A F
for i will be home then
G
i will be home then
F
i will be home then
G
i will be home then

then

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

C Am
when i was a girl how the hills of oconee
C Am
made a seam to hem me in
C Am
there at the fair when our eyes caught , careless
C Am
got my heart right pierced by a pin

( C Am C Am )

C Am
but oh , did you see all the dead of manassas
C Am
all the bellies and the bones and the bile
C Am
no , i lingered here with the blankets barren
C Am
and my own belly big with child

( C Am C Am x2 )

( chorus )
A Cmaj7
but when the sun breaks
A Cmaj7 G
to no more bullets in battle creek
A Cmaj7
then will you make a grave
A F
for i will be home then
G
i will be home then
F
i will be home then
G
i will be home then

( bridge )
F G
stems and bones and stone walls too
G
could keep me from you
F Em
skein of skin is all too few
G
to keep me from you

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

C Am
but oh my love , though our bodies may be parted
C Am
though our skin may not touch skin
C Am
look for me with the sun – bright sparrow
C Am
i will come on the breath of the wind

C Am C Am x2