Rusalka Rusalka Wild Rushes chords by The Decemberists

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
DmDm Bb majorBb C9C9 G+G
DmDm Bb majorBb C9C9 G+G FF E MajorE


Verse 1:
DmDm          Bb majorBb
Rusalka, Rusalka your arms out of water
   C9C9         G+G
Your hair like an alien bloom
DmDm           Bb majorBb
Dark-eyed Rusalka, your brow tressed in flowers
C9C9           G+G
Pale in a liminal moon
DmDm        Bb majorBb    C9C9     G+G   G+G FF E MajorE
And all that you are is a star on the water

Interlude:
DmDm Bb majorBb C9C9 G+G FF E MajorE


Verse 2:
   DmDm            Bb majorBb
When first I went swimming, I heeded no warning
  C9C9               G+G
And dared breach your rippling pool
  DmDm             Bb majorBb
As I lulled and lingered, the ring slipped my finger
  C9C9               G+G
And drifted down the deepening cool
  DmDm     Bb majorBb     C9C9      G+G    G+G FF E MajorE
And all that I want is to fall in your shallows


Interlude:
DmDm Bb majorBb C9C9 G+G FF E MajorE


Verse 3:
  DmDm         Bb majorBb
And now we are wed, the water our bed
  C9C9             G+G
And bank to bank property lake
  DmDm           Bb majorBb
And you are my wild-eyed rusalka, my river bride
C9C9             G+G
Drag me down, take me away
  DmDm      Bb majorBb      C9C9      G+G     DmDm
And here we will lie, you and I, 'neath the cold, dark sky

Interlude:
DmDm Bb majorBb C9C9 G+G FF E MajorE
D MajorD   C9C9 D MajorD


Verse 4:
  D MajorD                      C9C9        D MajorD
Beware the wild rushes, my mother told me
      D MajorD                    C9C9         D MajorD
That grow on the banks side along the salt sea
  C9C9         D MajorD    C9C9       D MajorD
But I being young, I heeded her none
  D MajorD                    C9C9         D MajorD
So to the wild rushes the wind carried me

  D MajorD            C9C9     D MajorD
The summer was here and the sun it was high
  D MajorD          C9C9     D MajorD
And to the wild rushes I came by and by
  C9C9      D MajorD    C9C9      D MajorD
And there took my seat and dipped in my feet
  D MajorD             C9C9      D MajorD
And through the wild rushes, a voice sweetly cried:
G+G  D MajorD
Ahhh


Verse 5:
   D MajorD               C9C9    D MajorD
Come down, my little darling, come closer to me
  D MajorD          C9C9    D MajorD
The water is warm; it is salty and free
 C9C9      D MajorD      C9C9      D MajorD
I long for your touch but I won't ask too much
  D MajorD            C9C9    D MajorD
And I, being foolish, walked in to my knees

   D MajorD             C9C9    D MajorD
Come down, little darling, and lay at my breast
  D MajorD            C9C9     D MajorD
Oh come a little closer and I'll do the rest
 C9C9    D MajorD     C9C9    D MajorD
I waited so long for a lover to come
  D MajorD            C9C9    D MajorD
And I, being foolish, walked in to my chest
G+G  D MajorD
Ahhh
G+G  D MajorD
Ahhh


Verse 6:
  D MajorD              C9C9      D MajorD
Come down, my little darling, oh farther come in
  D MajorD           C9C9     D MajorD
For deeper the water, the sweeter the sin
  C9C9    D MajorD       C9C9    D MajorD
My lily lies here, if you'd only draw near
  D MajorD           C9C9    D MajorD
And I, being foolish, went in to my chin

  D MajorD                C9C9      D MajorD
Oh come, my little darling, do you feel my cool breath?
    D MajorD             C9C9     D MajorD
Do you feel my arms around you so warm and so wet?
C9C9      D MajorD     C9C9    D MajorD
Swept from my feet, she pulled me beneath
  D MajorD           C majorC     G+G
And in the wild rushes, I went to my death

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