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

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"