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Down By The Water by The Decemberists - Guitar Chords

Artist The Decemberists How to play the guitar chord C.jpg How to play the guitar chord Em.jpg How to play the guitar chord D.jpg How to play the guitar chord G.jpg

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Version 2 Version 3
            Song: "Down By The Water"
Artist: The Decemberists
Album: The King Is Dead (Down By The Water Release) - 2010/2011


Em |0-2-2-0-0-0|
G  |3-2-0-0-0-3|
D  |x-x-0-2-3-2| or D/F# |2-x-0-2-3-2|
C  |x-3-2-0-1-0| or C/G  |3-3-2-0-1-0|

(Note on the intro, I made it like a lead sheet you'd see in a jazz band:
The upward line is a bar line, the slashes are the same chords based on
rhythm/spacing. The Em is played in the same rhythm as the chords before it,
but the D major chord is played as two staccato quarter notes; you'll hear
it in the song)


Harmonica in a key of G plays during the [Intro] and during [Break]:

Harmonica tabs:
7 6   -6      -6 6 5 6  5      -4


[Intro]

|   C   |   Em   |   C   |   Em / |   D / |


[Verse]

Em               G
See this ancient riverbed
D                 C
See where all the follies led
Em                        D                  Em
Down by the water, (and) down by the old main drag

Em             G
I was just some towhead teen
D                       C
Feelin' 'round for fingers to get in-between
Em                   D                 Em
Down by the water, down by the old main drag


[Pre-Chorus]

Em         D       Em
The season rubs me wrong
Em        D      C
The summer swells anon


[Chorus]

             Em           G
So knock me down, tear me up
            D                          C
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Em                    D                    Em
Down by the water and down by the old main drag


[Break]

|   C   |   Em   |   C   |   Em / |   D / |

Harmonica tabs:
7 6   -6      -6 6 5 6  5      -4


[Verse]

Em                 G
Sweet descend this rabble 'round
    D                      C
the pretty little patter of a seaport town
Em                        D                      Em
Rolling in the water and rolling down the old main drag

Em              G
All dolled up in gabardine
D                         C
The lash-flashing Leda of pier nineteen
Em                    D                  Em
Queen of the water and queen of the old main drag


[Pre-Chorus]

Em        D        Em
The season rubs me wrong
Em        D      C
The summer swells anon


[Chorus]

             Em           G
So knock me down, tear me up
            D                          C
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Em                    D                    Em
Down by the water and down by the old main drag


[Break/Solos]

| C | Em | C | Em  D  |
| Em | G | D | C | Em | D


[Pre-Chorus]

Em        D        Em
The season rubs me wrong
Em        D      C
The summer swells anon


[Chorus]

             Em           G
So knock me down, tear me up
            D                          C
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Em                    D                    Em
Down by the water and down by the old main drag


[Outro/Coda]

Em                    D                    Em
Down by the water and down by the old main drag
C                     D                    Em
Down by the water and down by the old main drag

(There's a ritardando in the last line, you'll hear it) 
        

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