Rusalka Rusalka Wild Rushes Tabs by The Decemberists

Rusalka Rusalka Wild Rushes tab by The Decemberists

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Tuning: Drop D (D A D G B E)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes

(Drop D Tuning)

Chords:
   D    Dm   Bbm   C9   G    G*   F    E    A
E|---2---|---1---|---0---|---0---|---0---|-------|-------|-------|-------|
B|---3---|---3---|---3---|---3---|---0---|-------|-------|-------|-------|
G|---2---|---2---|---0---|---0---|---0---|-------|-------|-------|---2---|
D|---0---|---0---|---0---|---2---|---5---|---5---|---3---|---2---|---2---|
A|---0---|---0---|---1---|---3---|---5---|---5---|---3---|---2---|---0---|
D|---0---|---0---|-------|-------|---5---|---5---|---3---|---2---|-------|

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Accuracy Rating: - Votes: -

(Chord shapes are open to interpretation during Rusalka, Rusalka, it's a piano after all)
Rusalka, Rusalka:

Intro:
Dm | Bbm | C9 | G
Dm | Bbm | C9 | G F E

Verse 1:
Dm          Bbm
Rusalka, Rusalka your arms out of water

   C9         G
Your hair like an alien bloom

Dm           Bbm
Dark-eyed Rusalka, your brow tressed in flowers

C9           G
Pale in a liminal moon

Dm        Bbm   C9     G   G F E
And all that you are is a star on the water

Dm | Bbm | C9 | G F E

Verse 2:
   Dm            Bbm
When first I went swimming, I heeded no warning

  C9               G
And dared breach your rippling pool

   Dm            Bbm
As I lulled and lingered, the ring slipped my finger

  C9               G
And drifted down the deepening cool

  Dm     Bbm    C9      G    G F E
And all that I want is to fall in your shallows

Dm | Bbm | C9 | G F E

Verse 3:
  Dm         Bbm
And now we are wed, the water our bed

  C9             G
And bank to bank property lake

  Dm           Bbm
And you are my wild-eyed rusalka, my river bride

C9             G
Drag me down, take me away

  Dm      Bbm     C9      G     Dm
And here we will lie, you and I, 'neath the cold, dark sky

Dm | Bbm | C9 | G F E

Wild Rushes - triplet feel throughout:

Transition:
  D
  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .
E|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-3---------3-3-----|-3---------3-3-----|
G|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|
D|-0----(0)----0-----|-0----(0)----0-----| x4
A|-------------------|-------------------|
D|-------------------|-------------------|

Verse Progression:
  D                    C9         D
  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-3---------3-3-----|-3---------3-3---3-|-3---------3-3---3-|-3---------3-3-----|-3---------3-3-----|
G|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|-2----(2)--2-2---2-|-0----(0)--0-0---0-|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|
D|-0----(0)----0-----|-0----(0)----0-----|-2----(2)--2-2---2-|-0----(0)----0-----|-0----(0)----0-----|
A|-------------------|-------------------|-3----(3)----3-----|-------------------|-------------------|
D|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
 Beware the wild    rushes,   my   mother   told  me               that

  D                    C9         D
  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-3---------3-3-----|-3---------3-3---3-|-3---------3-3---3-|-3---------3-3-----|-3---------3-3---3-|
G|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|-2----(2)--2-2---2-|-0----(0)--0-0---0-|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|-2----(2)--2-2---2-|
D|-0----(0)----0-----|-0----(0)----0-----|-2----(2)--2-2---2-|-0----(0)----0-----|-0----(0)----0-----|
A|-------------------|-------------------|-3----(3)----3-----|-------------------|-------------------|
D|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
 grow on the      banks side     along the salt    sea               but

  C9         D
  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-3---------3-3---3-|-3---------3-3-----|-3---------3-3---3-|
G|-0----(0)--0-0---0-|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|-2----(2)--2-2---2-|
D|-2----(2)--2-2---2-|-0----(0)----0-----|-0----(0)----0-----|
A|-3----(3)----3-----|-------------------|-------------------|
D|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  I being       young              I

  C9         D
  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-3---------3-3---3-|-3---------3-3-----|-3---------3-3---3-|
G|-0----(0)--0-0---0-|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|
D|-2----(2)--2-2---2-|-0----(0)----0-----|-0----(0)----0-----|
A|-3----(3)----3-----|-------------------|-------------------|
D|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  headed her     none              So

  D                    C9         D
  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-3---------3-3-----|-3---------3-3---3-|-3---------3-3---3-|-3---------3-3-----|-3---------3-3-----|
G|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|-2----(2)--2-2---2-|-0----(0)--0-0---0-|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|
D|-0----(0)----0-----|-0----(0)----0-----|-2----(2)--2-2---2-|-0----(0)----0-----|-0----(0)----0-----|
A|-------------------|-------------------|-3----(3)----3-----|-------------------|-------------------|
D|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  to the wild     rushes the     wind carried    me

  D
  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  1 . . 2 . . 3 . .
E|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-3---------3-3-----|-3---------3-3-----|
G|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|-2----(2)--2-2h4p2-|
D|-0----(0)----0-----|-0----(0)----0-----|
A|-------------------|-------------------|
D|-------------------|-------------------|
                  The   summer...

Verse 2 - Add in open A and high E strings to Verse Progression, fuller, more freely:
  D            C9     D
The summer was here and the sun it was high

  D          C9     D
And to the wild rushes I came by and by

  C9      D    C9      D
And there took my seat and dipped in my feet

  D             C9      D
And through the wild rushes, a voice sweetly cried:

G  D
Ahhh

Verse 3:
   D               C9    D
Come down, my little darling, come closer to me

  D          C9    D
The water is warm; it is salty and free

 C9      D      C9      D
I long for your touch but I won't ask too much

  D            C9    D
And I, being foolish, walked in to my knees

Verse 4:
   D             C9    D
Come down, little darling, and lay at my breast

  D            C9     D
Oh come a little closer and I'll do the rest

 C9    D     C9    D
I waited so long for a lover to come

  D            C9    D
And I, being foolish, walked in to my chest

G  D
Ahhh

G  D
Ahhh

Verse 5:
   D              C9      D
Come down, my little darling, oh farther come in

  D           C9     D
For deeper the water, the sweeter the sin

  C9    D       C9    D
My lily lies here, if you'd only draw near

  D           C9    D
And I, being foolish, went in to my chin

Verse 6:
  D                C9      D
Oh come, my little darling, do you feel my cool breath?

    D             C9     D
Do you feel my arms around you so warm and so wet?

C9      D     C9    D
Swept from my feet, she pulled me beneath

  D           C     G
And in the wild rushes, I went to my death

Instrumental Bridge:
  Bbm      C9      D
  1 . . 2 . .  1 . . 2 . .  1 . . 2 . . ^1 . . 2 . .
E|-------------|-------------|-------2-----|-3-----0-----|
B|-------3-----|-------3-----|-----3---3---|-3-3-----3---|
G|-----0---0---|-----0---0---|---2-------2-|-2---2-----0-|
D|---0-------0-|---2-------2-|-0-----------|-0-----------|
A|-1-----------|-3-----------|-------------|-------------|
D|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|

  Bbm      C9      F/D                    F  G* A
  1 . . 2 . .  1 . . 2 . .  1 . . 2 . .  1 . . 2 . .  1 . . 2 . .  1 . . 2 . .
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
B|-------3-----|-------3-----|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
G|-----0---0---|-----0---0---|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------2---|
D|---0-------0-|---2-------2-|-3-0---0---0-|-3-0---0---0-|-3-0---0---0-|-3---5---2---|
A|-1-----------|-3-----------|-3-0---0---0-|-3-0---0---0-|-3-0---0---0-|-3---5---0---|
D|-------------|-------------|-3-0---0---0-|-3-0---0---0-|-3-0---0---0-|-3---5-------|

Outro:
Bbm | C9 | D | D
Bbm | C9 | F/D | F/D | F/D | F G A

Bbm | C9 | D | D
Bbm | C9 | F/D | F/D | F/D | F G A

Bbm | C9 | D | D
Bbm | C9 | F/D | F/D | F/D | F/D | F\D | F\D

D

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| h  Hammer-on
| p  Pull-off
| ^  Arpeggiated/Broken Chord
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