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- Download Music and Lyrics of The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
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- I had entered into a marriage
- In the summer of my twenty-first year
- And the bells rang for our wedding
- Only now do I remember it clear
- Alright, alright, alright
- No more a rake and no more a bachelor
- I was wedded and it whetted my thirst
- Until her womb start spilling out babies
- Only then did I reckon my curse
- Alright, alright, alright
- Alright, alright, alright
- First came Isaiah with his crinkled little fingers
- Then came Charlotte and that wretched girl Dawn
- Ugly Myfanwy died on delivery
- Mercifully taking her mother along
- Alright, alright, alright
- What can one do when one is widower
- Shamefully saddled with three little pests
- All that I wanted was the freedom of a new life
- So my burden I began to divest
- Alright, alright, alright
- Alright, alright, alright
- Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove
- Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath
- Isaiah fought but was easily bested
- Burned his body for incurring my wrath
- Alright, alright, alright
- And that's how I came your humble narrator
- To be living so easy and free
- Expect you think that I should be haunted
- But it never really bothers me
- Alright, alright, alright
- Alright, alright, alright
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