Artist: The Decemberists
Song: The Chimbley Sweep
Label: Kill Rock Stars
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Standard tuning: EADGBE
Intro:
Verse:
I chimbley
A chimbley sweep
No bed to lie
No shoes to hold my feet
On the rooftop
In dead of night
You hear me cry
Pre-Chorus:
I ll shake you from your sleep
Hear me weep
Your day will come in peace
Chorus:
For I am a poor and a wretched boy
A chimbley, chimbley sweep
Verse 2:
I am an orphan
An orphan boy
I know no love
I see no mother joy
A dirty doorstep
My cradle lay
My fortune made
Pre-Chorus:
I ll shake you from your sleep
Hear me weep
Your day will come in peace
Chorus:
For I am a poor and a wretched boy
A chimbley, chimbley sweep
Verse 3:
A lonely urchin
The widow cried
I ve not been spoiled
Since the day my husband died
Her cheeks are blushing
Her legs lay bare
And shipwrecked there
Pre-Chorus:
I ll shake you from your sleep
Hear me weep
Your day will come indeed
Chorus 2x:
For I am a poor and a wretched boy
A chimbley, chimbley sweep