Biography:
The Decemberists son una banda estadounidense de indie pop, formada en Portland, Oregon. Su nombre deriva de la "Rebelión Decembrista" de 1825 en Rusia, y la temática de sus canciones normalmente trata de historias y personajes ficticios, normalmente mezclado a hechos históricos y siempre manteniendo una línea narrativa.
Actualmente, The Decemberists esta formado por:
Colin Meloy (vocalista, guitarra)
Chris Funk (guitarra, multi-instrumentalista)
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Other songs:
- Bandit Queen
- Billy Liar
- Cavalry Captain
- Down By The Water
- Eli The Barrow Boy
- Engine Driver
- From My Own True Love (lost At Sea)
- Grace Cathedral Hill
- Lake Song
- Make You Better
- Mariner's Revenge
- Mariner's Revenge Song
- O Valencia
- Of Angels And Angles
- Red Right Ankle
- Sixteen Military Wives
- The Engine Driver
- The Mariner's Revenge
- The Shankill Butchers
- The Tain Part Iv
- Traveling On
- Why Would I Now?
- Eli, The Barrow Boy
- 121712
- 16 Military Wives
- A Beginning Song
- A Bower Scene
- A Cautionary Song
- A Record Year For Rainfall
- After The Bombs
- All Arise
- Angel Wont You Call Me
- Annan Water
- Anti
- Apology Song
- As I Rise
- Bachelor And The Bride
- Bagmans Gambit
- Ben Franklins Song
- Better Not Wake The Baby
- Bridges And Balloons
- Burying Davy
- Calamity Song
- California One Youth And Beauty Brigade
- Castaways And Cutouts
- Chimbley Sweep
- Clementine
- Cocoon
- Constantinople
- Culling Of The Fold
- Cutting Stone
- Dear Avery
- Decemberists
- Dont Carry It All
- E Watson
- Easy Come Easy Go
- Everything I Try To Do Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right
- Everything Is Awful
- Five Songs
- For My Own True Love Lost At Sea
- Foregone
- From My Own True Love Lost At Sea
- Her Majesty The Decemberists
- Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
- Hurdles Even Here
- I 4 U And U 4 Me
- I Dont Mind
- I Was Meant For The Stage
- Ill Be Your Girl
- Infanta
- Isnt It A Lovely Day
- Isnt It A Lovely Night
- January Hymn
- July July
- June Hymn
- Kingdom Of Spain
- Legionnaires Lament
- Leslie Anne Levine
- Like A Lion
- Long Live The King
- Los Angeles Im Yours
- Make Julieanne Cry
- Mariners Revenge Song
- Mistral
- My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist
- O New England
- Oceanside
- Odalisque
- On The Bus Mall
- Once In My Life
- One Engine
- Perfect Crime 1
- Perfect Crime 2
- Philomena
- Picaresque
- Picaresqueties
- Please Daddy Dont Get Drunk This Christmas
- Raincoat Song
- Rise To Me
- Riverswim
- Row Jimmy
- Rox In The Box
- Severed
- Shankhill Butchers
- Shankill Butchers
- Shanty For The Arethusa
- Shiny
- Sleepless
- Soldiering Life
- Song For Myla Goldberg
- Sonnet
- Sons And Daughters
- Sporting Life
- Starwatcher
- Stateside
- Suckers Prayer
- Summersong
- Sunshine
- Tain
- Tain Part 3
- The Cap Street Girls
- The Crane Wife
- The Crane Wife 1
- The Crane Wife 2
- The Crane Wife 3
- The Crane Wife Parts 1 2 3
- The Day I Knew You Wouldnt Ever Come Back
- The Days Of Elaine
- The Harrowed And The Haunted
- The Harrowed And The Haunted Lyrics
- The Hazards Of Love
- The Hazards Of Love 1
- The Hazards Of Love 2 Wager All
- The Hazards Of Love 3 Revenge
- The Hazards Of Love 4 The Drowned
- The Infanta
- The Island Come And See
- The King Is Dead
- The Legionnaires Lament
- The Mariners Revenge Song
- The Rakes Song
- The Singer Addresses His Audience
- The Wanting Comes In Waves Reprise
- The Wrong Year
- This Is Why We Fight
- Till The Waters All Long Gone
- Tripping Along
- Valencia
- Valerie Plame
- We All Die Young
- We Both Go Down Together
- What A Terrible World What A Beautiful World
- When The War Came
- Why Would I Now
- Wonder
- Wont Want For Love Margaret Of The Taiga
- Yankee Bayonet
- Youll Not Feel The Drowning
- Your Ghost
- Zoot
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Song: "Down By The Water"
Artist: The Decemberists
Album: The King Is Dead (Down By The Water Release)-2010/2011
Transcribed by Chris Parker
~~
EDIT: Many thanks to Isabel_W for sending me the correct lyrics. I haven't
been checking my messages lately, nor the Decemberists' website, but they
have made the lyrics available online, which I have now updated.
Thanks again!
~
So, this song was just released for download today by The Decemberists
themselves, and it blew me away. I've listened to it now a total of three
times (about to be four to double-check the lyrics).
It just now occurred to me it would be a lot of fun to learn, so I picked up
my classical and went at it. It's in Em, and the chords you're going to
want to grab are here (God, being in music school and majoring in jazz has
made me hate tab... here they are in not-tab and relative chord fingering
to make me feel better)
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|
The inverted chords are to taste. They fit (obviously) within the song's
progression, and you can add them if you want to. I play the F# in the D
major chord (really it's just a triad with doubled notes) with my thumb.
I'm taking the lyrics from the unregistered chord sheet on this site for
ease of use, but I'm changing the chords since, well, they were wrong. (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)
Lines in parentheses are words I can't quite make out.
[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 / |
[Verse]
Em G
Sweet decsend 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)
Well, that's their latest song!
Like I said, totally blew me away, hope you guys have fun with it.
Artist: The Decemberists
Album: The King Is Dead (Down By The Water Release)-2010/2011
Transcribed by Chris Parker
~~
EDIT: Many thanks to Isabel_W for sending me the correct lyrics. I haven't
been checking my messages lately, nor the Decemberists' website, but they
have made the lyrics available online, which I have now updated.
Thanks again!
~
So, this song was just released for download today by The Decemberists
themselves, and it blew me away. I've listened to it now a total of three
times (about to be four to double-check the lyrics).
It just now occurred to me it would be a lot of fun to learn, so I picked up
my classical and went at it. It's in Em, and the chords you're going to
want to grab are here (God, being in music school and majoring in jazz has
made me hate tab... here they are in not-tab and relative chord fingering
to make me feel better)
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|
The inverted chords are to taste. They fit (obviously) within the song's
progression, and you can add them if you want to. I play the F# in the D
major chord (really it's just a triad with doubled notes) with my thumb.
I'm taking the lyrics from the unregistered chord sheet on this site for
ease of use, but I'm changing the chords since, well, they were wrong. (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)
Lines in parentheses are words I can't quite make out.
[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 / |
[Verse]
Em G
Sweet decsend 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)
Well, that's their latest song!
Like I said, totally blew me away, hope you guys have fun with it.
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