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The Island You'll Not Feel The Drowning Chords by The Decemberists

The Island You'll Not Feel The Drowning by The Decemberists

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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Intro: 

G#m


🎸 Verse:

I will dress your eyelids

With dimes upon your eyes

Lay you close to water

Green your grave will rise


🎸 Chorus: 

F#
Go to sleep little ugly
G#m
Go to sleep you little fool
F#
Forty-winking in the belfry
E                   F#
You'll not feel the drowning
E                   F#      G G#m
You'll not feel the drowning
🎸 Verse 2:

Forget you once had sweethearts

They've forgotten you

Think you not on parents

They've forgotten too


🎸 Chorus 2: 

F#
Go to sleep now little ugly
G#m
Go to sleep now you little fool
F#
Forty-winking in the belfry
E                   F#
You'll not feel the drowning
E                   F#     G G#m
You'll not feel the drowning


🎸 Interlude: 

G#m


🎸 Chorus 3: 

F#
Go to sleep now little ugly
G#m
Go to sleep now you little fool
F#
Forty-winking in the belfry
E                   F#
You'll not feel the drowning
E                   F#     G G#m
You'll not feel the drowning


🎸 Verse 3:

Hear you now the captain

Heed his sorrowed cry

"Weight upon your eyelids
                              B
As dimes laid on your eyes"

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The Island You'll Not Feel The Drowning Chords by The Decemberists
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Chords: E, A, D, G, B, G#m, F#