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