Rusalka Rusalka Wild Rushes chords by The Decemberists

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
Dm  Bb  C9  G
Dm  Bb  C9  G F E


Verse 1:
Dm                    Bb
Rusalka, Rusalka your arms out of water
     C9                 G
Your hair like an alien bloom
Dm                      Bb
Dark-eyed Rusalka, your brow tressed in flowers
C9                     G
Pale in a liminal moon
Dm               Bb       C9          G      G F E
And all that you are is a star on the water

Interlude:
Dm  Bb  C9  G F E


Verse 2:
     Dm                       Bb
When first I went swimming, I heeded no warning
    C9                              G
And dared breach your rippling pool
   Dm                         Bb
As I lulled and lingered, the ring slipped my finger
    C9                              G
And drifted down the deepening cool
    Dm         Bb         C9           G        G F E
And all that I want is to fall in your shallows


Interlude:
Dm  Bb  C9  G F E


Verse 3:
    Dm                  Bb
And now we are wed, the water our bed
    C9                         G
And bank to bank property lake
    Dm                     Bb
And you are my wild-eyed rusalka, my river bride
C9                         G
Drag me down, take me away
    Dm           Bb           C9            G          Dm
And here we will lie, you and I, 'neath the cold, dark sky


Interlude:
Dm  Bb  C9  G F E
D     C9  D


Verse 4:
   D                                           C9               D
Beware the wild rushes, my mother told me
           D                                       C9                  D
That grow on the banks side along the salt sea
   C9                  D       C9              D
But I being young, I heeded her none
   D                                       C9                  D
So to the wild rushes the wind carried me

    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 5:
     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

     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 6:
    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

   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