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Red Right Ankle by The Decemberists - Guitar Chords

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Version 1
            [Intro]

   D/F#         G
e|---------------------------|
B|---------------------------|
G|---------------------------|
D|------------------0h2------|
A|----------------------0h2--|  (x2, w/ verse chords)
E|--2---0h2-0h2--3-----------|

D/F#                               G                


[Verse 1]
D/F#                               G
This is the story of your red right ankle,       
D/F#                          G
and how it came to meet your leg
D/F#                        G
And how the muscle bone and sinews tangled, 
D/F#                         G
and how the skin was softly shed
Em                          A                              
And how it whispered, oh, adhere to me, 
Em                       A
for we are bound by symmetry
Em                           A               
And whatever differences our lives have been,  
D                    G    G D/F#
we together make a limb
Em                        A           D/F#  G   D/F#  G  
This is the story of your red right ankle


[Verse 2]
D/F#                               G
This is the story of your gypsy uncle, 
D/F#                          G
you never knew 'cause he was dead
D/F#                                         G
And how his face was carved and ripped with wrinkles, 
D/F#                     G
in the picture in your head
Em                             A 
And remember how you found the key, 
Em                     A 
to his hideout in the Pyrenees
Em                          A 
But you wanted to keep his secret safe, 
D                    G    G D/F#
so you threw the key away
Em                        A           D/F#  G   D/F#  G  
This is the story of your gypsy uncle


[Interlude]

Em    A   Asus4  A  
Em    A   Asus4  A
D/F#  G   (x2)


[Verse 3]
D/F#                               G
This is the story of the boys who loved you, 
D/F#                            G
who love you now and loved you then
D/F#                                               G
And some were sweet and some were cold and snuffed you, 
D/F#                         G
and some just laid around in bed
Em                                     A 
And had crumbled you straight to your knees, 
Em                      A 
did it cruel did it tenderly
Em                                         A 
And some had crawled their way into your heart, 
D                    G    G D/F#
to rend your ventricles apart
Em                       A              G/B    G/B Asus4 G   G D/F# Em
This is the story of the boys who loved you
Em                        A           G  
This is the story of your red right ankle





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