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The Decemberists - Sons & Daughters
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The Decemberists - Once In My Life
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The Decemberists - The Infanta
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The Decemberists - Down By The Water
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The Decemberists - Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
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The Decemberists - One Engine
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The Decemberists - Rise To Me
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The Decemberists - Rox In The Box
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The Decemberists - Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
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The Decemberists - Sucker's Prayer
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The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle The Thistles Undone)
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The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned)
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The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
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The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight
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The Decemberists - A Bower Scene
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The Decemberists - Better Not Wake The Baby
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The Decemberists - Burial Ground (feat. James Mercer)
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The Decemberists - Don't Carry It All
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The Decemberists - Eli, The Barrowboy
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The Decemberists - Isn't It A Lovely Night?
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The Decemberists - July, July!
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The Decemberists - June Hymn
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The Decemberists - Lake Song
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The Decemberists - Like A Lion
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The Decemberists - Make You Better
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The Decemberists - Song For The Myla Goldberg
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The Decemberists - Summersong
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The Decemberists - The Abduction Of Margaret
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
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The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 2 (Wager All)
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The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
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The Decemberists - Why Would I Now?
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The Decemberists - Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga)
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The Decemberists - 12/17/12
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The Decemberists - 16 By 32
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The Decemberists - A Beginning Song
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The Decemberists - A Cautionary Song
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The Decemberists - All Arise!
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The Decemberists - Angel, Won't You Call Me?
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The Decemberists - Annan Water
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The Decemberists - Anti-Summersong
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The Decemberists - Apology Song
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The Decemberists - As I Rise
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The Decemberists - Ben Franklin's Song
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The Decemberists - Billy Liar
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The Decemberists - Bridges And Balloons
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The Decemberists - Calamity Song
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The Decemberists - California One
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The Decemberists - California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade
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The Decemberists - Carolina Low
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The Decemberists - Cavalry Captain
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The Decemberists - Clementine
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The Decemberists - Cocoon
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The Decemberists - Constantinople
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The Decemberists - Cullin of the Fold
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The Decemberists - Dear Avery
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The Decemberists - Easy Come, Easy Go
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The Decemberists - Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right
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The Decemberists - Foregone
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The Decemberists - From My Own True Love (lost At Sea)
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The Decemberists - Grace Cathedral Hill
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The Decemberists - Human Behavior
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The Decemberists - I
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The Decemberists - I Don't Mind
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The Decemberists - I Was Meant For The Stage
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The Decemberists - II
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The Decemberists - III
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The Decemberists - IV
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The Decemberists - January Hymn
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The Decemberists - Julianne
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The Decemberists - Leslie Anne Levine
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The Decemberists - Los Angeles, I'm Yours
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The Decemberists - Margaret In Captivity
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The Decemberists - Mistral
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The Decemberists - My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist
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The Decemberists - O Valencia
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The Decemberists - O Valencia!
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The Decemberists - Oceanside
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The Decemberists - Ocenside
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The Decemberists - Odalisque
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The Decemberists - Of Angels And Angles
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The Decemberists - On The Bus Mall
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The Decemberists - Philomena
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The Decemberists - Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
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The Decemberists - Record Year
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The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle
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The Decemberists - Riverswim
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The Decemberists - Row Jimmy
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The Decemberists - Severed
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The Decemberists - Shankill Butchers
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The Decemberists - Shanty For The Arethusa
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The Decemberists - Shiny
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The Decemberists - Sixteen Military Wives
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The Decemberists - Sleepless
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The Decemberists - Sunshine
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The Decemberists - The Apology Song
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The Decemberists - The Bachelor And The Bride
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The Decemberists - The Bagman's Gambit
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The Decemberists - The Bandit Queen
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The Decemberists - The Chimbley Sweep
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 1 and 2
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The Decemberists - The Engine Driver
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The Decemberists - The Gymnast, High Above The Ground
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The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love (Revenge!)
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The Decemberists - The Island
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The Decemberists - The Island: Come and See, The Landlord's Daughter, You'll Not Feel the Drow
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The Decemberists - The Kingdom Of Spain
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The Decemberists - The Landlord's Daughter
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The Decemberists - The Legionnaire's Lament
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The Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song
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The Decemberists - The Perfect Crime 2
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The Decemberists - The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
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The Decemberists - The Singer Addresses His Audience
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The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life
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The Decemberists - The Sporting Life
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The Decemberists - The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V)
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The Decemberists - The Wrong Year
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The Decemberists - Till The Water's All Long Gone
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The Decemberists - Traveling On
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The Decemberists - V
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The Decemberists - Valerie Plame
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The Decemberists - VI
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The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together
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The Decemberists - When the War Came
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The Decemberists - Wonder
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The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
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The Decemberists - Youth and Beauty Brigade
The Mariner's Revenge Song
The Decemberists
Our ship's sole survivors
In this belly of a whale
It's ribs are ceiling beams
It's guts are carpeting
I guess we have some time to kill
You may not remember me
I was a child of three
And you, a lad of eighteen
But, I remember you
And I will relate to you
How our histories interweave
At the time you were
A rake and a roustabout
Spending all your money
On the whores and hounds
(Oh, oh)
You had a charming air
All cheap and debonair
My widowed mother found so sweet
And so she took you in
Her sheets still warm with him
Now filled with filth and foul disease
As time wore on you proved
A debt-ridden drunken mess
Leaving my mother
A poor consumptive wretch
(Oh, oh)
And then you disappeared
Your gambling arrears
The only thing you left behind
And then the magistrate
Reclaimed our small estate
And my poor mother lost her mind
Then, one day in spring
My dear sweet mother died
But, before she did
I took her hand as she, dying, cried
(Oh, oh)
Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave
It took me fifteen years
To swallow all my tears
Among the urchins in the street
Until a priory
Took pity and hired me
To keep their vestry nice and neat
But, never once in the employ
Of these holy men
Did I ever, once turn my mind
From the thought of revenge
(Oh, oh)
One night I overheard
The prior exchanging words
With a penitent whaler from the sea
The captain of his ship
Who matched you toe to tip
Was known for wanton cruelty
The following day
I shipped to sea
With a privateer
And in the whistle
Of the wind
I could almost hear
(Oh, oh)
Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave
There is one thing I must say to you
As you sail across the sea
Always, your mother will watch over you
As you avenge this wicked deed
And then, that fateful night
We had you in our sight
After twenty months, it seemed
Your starboard flank abeam
I was getting my muskets clean
When came this rumbling from beneath
The ocean shook
The sky went black
And the captain quailed
And before us grew
The angry jaws
Of a giant whale
(Oh)
Don't know how I survived
The crew all was chewed alive
I must have slipped between his teeth
But, oh, what providence
What divine intelligence
That you should survive
As well as me
It gives my eye great joy
To see your eyes fill with fear
To lean in close
And I will whisper
The last words you'll hear
(Oh, oh)