Friday, December 23, 2011

Drag the River - Barroom Bliss

C.......................F..........................C
My mind doesn't work so well these days

C...................F..................C
I drink all my waking hours away

G
If I sit here long enough

G
maybe I think of something

.........C...............Am......G
that'll make you stay

something tells me not think at all
I sit in the darkness starin at the wall
This lonliness is hell
I search for drinks and things
to make me well

F...............Am
I spend my life staring

G............................C
through my bloodshot eyes

F............Am...............G
I'll never know where I belong

With eyes closed fast
I play photographs of you
You stare at me and wonder
how I'm doing
I tell you that I'm fine
That thought echoes through my empty mind
I close my eyes again

With barroom bliss and a strangers kiss
I'm home
Cause noone ever wants to be alone
I doubt that there is a way
I'll ever speak the words
that'll make you stay

my mind doesnt work so well these days

Drag the River - Song For Robin Reichhardt

G...D...Am...C..D

G....................................D
I know I said we'd never part


Am..................C.............D
I remember that time of year

G...................................D
Maybe I won't sound the same

Am
But I'll be fine if no one

C..................D
mentions her name


G.............................D
I need a song just like before

G......................................C
That one just don't cut it anymore

G....................................D
I'm impressed now its the end

...........................................Am
I'll let all the sad songs roll back in

Am
I'll be be fine if no one

C.................D............C
mentions her name anymore

................G
Except for lying

.....................C
alone with the earth

................G
all alone for a while

.................C..................................G
I'll feel like drivin' just away in the morning

.........................Em
All but I've been seeing myself

............C..........D
The first time I might


So maybe I won't sound the same
Tell me I don't feel the same
But I'll be fine if no one
mentions her name

Think of how it was that night
and how you feel tonight
I'll be fine if no one
mentions her name anymore

Need a song just like before
The one don't cut it anymore
I'm impressed now it's the end
all those sad sounds roll back
I'll be fine if no one
mentions her name

Anymore
I'll survive it

Em...D...G

Drag the River - Medicine

G
A bottle a day

Bm
keeps the doctors away

D.........................Em
or so my girlfriend says

G
So I take my medicine

Bm
and she gives me something

D...........................C
that word's just can't express


.......G
She's cranky when she's sober

D
so sweet when she's wasted

...........C
When I quench my thirst with her waters

..........D................................C
it's the sweetest I have ever tasted


C...G...C...G


As I lay down to sleep
she lays a bottle at my feet
knowing when I wake up
I'll be shaking
the sun comes through the window
she opens up the bottle
she feeds me my medicine again

She's cranky when she's sober
so sweet when she's wasted
When I quench my thirst with her waters
it's the sweetest I have ever tasted

C...............G
I can't stay clean long

.......................C................G
I hope she is not angry anymore


Em.................D.....................C
she brings me happiness in a bottle

................Am...........Em
makes life easier to swallow

..................G...........Am
makes love easier to hold

...............C...........D
so I've been told


Em...G...Am...A


She's cranky when she's sober
so sweet when she's wasted
When I quench my thirst with her waters
it's the sweetest I have ever tasted

can't stay clean long
hope she's not angry anymore

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

American Aquarium - Rattlesnake

Capo III

G...C...G
G...D...G


G
she was born outside of Memphis

.....C...............G
just north of Tupelo

.........................................D
oh Lord she's a Mississippi queen


G
and just like that big river

.......C........................G
oh Lord she'll pull you under

..............................D.........G
she fights fire with gasoline


well first time that I saw her
down at the Whitewater
dancing across those ancient hardwood floors

and you could tell she had a history
with the cigarettes and whiskey
and the boys that had a way with words


........C......D....G
but I want to make

.......C.......D.....G
that glorious mistake

G...........................................C...........G
now she's got the kisses of a thousand angels

.........................D........G
and the bite of a rattlesnake

just like my first occurrence
with straight Kentucky bourbon
oh Lord she took my breath away

and when she called me darling
I started caterwhomping
oh I had nothing else to say

but I want to make
that glorious mistake
now she's got the kisses of a thousand angels
and the bite of a rattlesnake

and when she gets me all alone
she strikes the fear of Jesus
she sends that fear coursing through my blood

and when we hit the bedroom
it's always fire and brimstone
yes I have been washed in the flood

but I want to make
that glorious mistake
now she's got the kisses of a thousand angels
and the bite of a rattlesnake

now she's got the kisses of a thousand angels
and the bite of a rattlesnake

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Israel Nash Gripka - Fool's Gold

G...D...A...G... 2x


D...........................A
give me lovin' like a cannonball

G.............................D................A
I can't stand but baby we got walls

D...........................A
the air is thin so lets take it down

G.....................................D.............A
to meet the street and the evening crowd

D.............................A
turn the corner and I heard her sing

G
shake me down and take me off with a ring

A.................................Em
building bridges ain't the hardest part

A......................................Em...........A
it's trying to swim when they fall apart

........................G.......D
and all I got was fools gold

D..............A..........................G..........D
they never get you what you needed most

D.................A...................G...............D
you know the silver always brings you home

D..................A
like friends and lovers well they

Em.........G........A.......D
come and go like fools gold


wish I knew how the story went
I guess I would if I remembered it
but it's just like it always is
with a broken head and a busted glass
throwing caution right into the wind
it takes me down and it always wins

building bridges ain't the hardest part
it's trying to swim when they fall apart
and all I got was fools gold
they never get you what you needed most
you know the silver always brings you home
like friends and lovers well they
come and go like fools gold


Em.............G.............A
out hear the mouth is a token

Em.....................G.......A
the fallout it comes easily

Em..........G........A
I know to ruin the moment

......Em...........G.............A
it's a valley just waitin' for me

and all I got was fools gold
they never get you what you needed most
you know the silver always brings you home
like friends and lovers well they
come and go like fools gold

Ryan Adams - Ashes and Fire

Capo III


G Rift:

e:--3-------3
B:--0---0h1
G:--0-------0
D:--0---0h2
A:--x-------x
E:--3-------3


G.....C...................G
as he stared past the fire

G................................C....................................G
his hunger to leave well it gnawed his poor heart alive

C...........................G
her skin smelled like black cherry

C..........G
blossom perfume

C.................G........................D
the sailboats they all sailed on by

........C.............G
and a river she cried

and the wind was suddenly sweeter than roosevelt pine
the windows broke out and the cigarette smoke was drifting by
the bums on the bowery they were swallowed in the lights
as cars rumbled out in the night
screaming run for your life


......Em.......C............G
with cool and silvery eyes

........Em............C..........G
and a heart it was fit for design

Em.............C..........G
drown in the river of tears oh

..C...........G
a river she cried

C..................D
left her with a heart

............C.............G
made of ashes and fire

one day there was a silence and it washed through the town
and there no reason and no one made a sound
her eyes were indigo
the cats were all calico
and the sailboats they all sailed on by
and a river she cried

with cool and silvery eyes
and a heart it was fit for design
drown in the river of tears oh
a river she cried
left her with a heart
made of ashes and fire

Monday, May 2, 2011

Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever

Capo III


Intro/Rift:


......D........................A...............C.............G
e:--2-2-2-0-2-2-2-0------0-----------------------
B:--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3---------2---------1-0--------
G:--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2----------2-----------0------
D:--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----------------------------0
A:-------------------------0------------3-----------2
E:---------------------------------------------------3


......D........................A...............C.............G
e:--2-2-2-0-2-2-2-0------0-----------------------
B:--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3---------2---------1-0--------
G:--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2----------2-----------0------
D:--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----------------------------0
A:-------------------------0------------3-----------2
E:---------------------------------------------------3


.......C...................F..............C..............G
e:-----------------------1-0------------------------
B:----1-0--------------------1------1-0-----------
G:---------0----0------------------------0--------
D:------------2-------3--------------------------0
A:--3------------------------------3-------------2
E:------------------------------------------------3


......Am...C..........F........C..........G
e:--0-0--0----------1-0------------------
B:--1-1--1---------1-----1----1-0---------
G:--2-2--0--0h2-----------------0------
D:--2-2--2------------------------------0
A:--0-0--3-----------------3------------2
E:----------------------------------------3


......Em.........C..........G
e:-----------------------------
B:----------------1-4-1-------
G:----0-3-0------------------
D:---------------------------0
A:--------------3------------2
E:--0------------------------3


.....D........................A
I'd pack my suitcase with myself

............C..........G
But I'm already gone

D..............................A
Cleanse myself with vitamin health

............C..........G
But I'm already gone

C..................................F
I saw it risin' through the horizon

C................G
And I saw it fall

...Am......C.................F
A Jesus fever's flowin' all over

C.................G
Believers and lovers

Em...C...G...


In a black hole I found a broken skull
Now I'm already gone
You can write my whole life down in a little book
When I'm already gone

I started shaking and my heart breaking
And my belly crawled
A Jesus Fever's flowin' all over
Believers and lovers

When I am a ghost, I'll see no reason to run
When I'm already gone
If it wasn't taped, you could escape this song
But I'm already gone

William Elliott Whitmore - Lee County Flood

D
The summer wind is blowing westward

.........................................A
over the field of fresh moved hay

A
Let's go up to the barn loft

................................................D
lay back and watch the sparrows play

I can see the evening sky
from the holes rusted in the tin
Let's close our eyes and fall asleep
and listen to the storm roll in

..G.............................................D
It sounded like a thousand horses' hooves

...........................................................A
The sound of the pourin' rain on the old tin roof

......G
The clouds were as black as the smoke form the stack

.................................D
of an old coal-burning train

D.....................................A............................D
Lay back and listen to the sound of the pourin' rain

It ain't rained in weeks and now it just won't stop
All the rivers and the creeks
are getting fuller with every drop
If the levee holds it's ground
and keeps that water back
the Mississippi won't reach my little tar-paper shack

Well now the sun shines on the roof
and the moonshine is in the cellar
and what a happy feller I am
to finally see the sun
now that the rain is done
'cause I've had about all I can stand
I can't tell where my pond begins
an where my cornfield ends
The cattle done floated away
'cause the water's up over the fence

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

FACEBOOK!!!!

We on it now

Joe Pernice - The Pill

G
mirrored glasses

Am
iconoclastic

Bm................C
worse shit than dreams

G
like a finger

Am
this must singer

......Bm....C
in a hip magazine


......................................C...C/B...Em
sometimes you make me feel so bad

...................C.....C/b.....Em....G
sugar feed me trapdoors what fors

A
among the most abused

......C
I've probably even used them

dirty phone calls and
baby doll faces
tounge in my ear
I'm walking
in between the
rain that falls

sometimes you make me feel so bad
sugar feed me trapdoors what fors
among the most abused
I've used them


...............G....D...Am
do what I will

................G...D...Am
I'm on the pill

...............G...D...Am
do what I will

................G...D...Am
I'm on the pill



Em...Am...............C..C/B..Am
if you need me I will be

....G
you never know

D
until it's done

.........Am
you're not about to

C
be the one

.....G.........Am
they want

.....G
you figure out

.........D
when it's too late

...Am
to undermine

.....C
the kind of fate

......G........Am
you made

Em...Am...............C..C/B..Am
if you need me I will be


do what I will
I'm on the pill
do what I will
I'm on the pill
I'm on the pill
I'm on the pill
I'm on the pill
I'm on the pill
I'm on the pill

Jason Isbell - Codine

G...D...Em...C...

G.........D.........................Em...........C
if there's one thing I can't stand
it's this bar and this cover band
trying to fake their way through "castles made of sand"
well that's one thing I can't stand

if there's one thing I can't take
it's the sound that a woman makes
about 5 seconds after her heart begins to breaks
that's one thing I can't take

Bm............................................C
she should be home by now but she ain't
and I should've gone by now but I can't

cause one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine
one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine

them eyes as big as stars
when I saw you behind the bar
I guess that's the way to keep on smiling where you are
girl those eyes are as big as stars

it sounds funny when you say my name
it's like you're chewing on a foreign thing
you won't get to sleep till dawn if it don't rain
it sounds so funny when you say my name

you oughta come home tonight but you won't
I wish we knew how to fight but we don't

one of your friends has taken you in and given you codine
one of your friends has taken you in and given you codine

Bm.......................C
darlin I'm not one to judge

..........G.........................................D
but if I was then I'd say you don't look so good
got no answers of my own
but with you gone this place looks bigger than it should

if theres two things that I hate
it's having to cook and trying to date
bustin' ass all day to play hurry-up and wait
that's a few things that I hate

if I call and I ain't drunk
this old boat will still be sunk

cause one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine
one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine
one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine
one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine
one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine
one of my friends has taken her in and given her codine

Friday, February 4, 2011

Elephant Micah - Still Life Blue

*Tune down one half step*


e:--2--2----------3-------------0---------
B:--3--3----------0--0---------1---------
G:--2--2--0-2---0-----2-0---0------0--
D:--0--0---------0-------------2---2----
A:----------------2--------------3--------
E:----------------3------------------------


D..........G....................C
well they say that your paintings

D........G.................C
are the work of an untrained mind

D...G........C
unlike any image

D.......G...............C
in the eyes of the unconfined

so I stare at your still life
as if it were wild
I look for your blues
in the natural light

well I see your collective
and you put up on display
with the people all around you
and the people who those other people pay

to stare at your still life
as if it were wild
to look for your blues
in the natural light

we stare at your still life
as if it were wild
we look for your blues
in the natural light

Glossary - Save Your Money For the Weekend

Riff 2x
e:--0-0---------------------
B:--2-2--------------------
G:--2-2---------------2---
D:--2-2--------2h4------
A:--0-0---2s4------------
E:--------------------------


e:--0-0-----------------------------------
B:--2-2----------------------------------
G:--2-2---------------2---4b-4p2-----
D:--2-2--------2h4-----------------4--
A:--0-0---2s4---------------------------
E:----------------------------------------


A...............................F#m
What's there to go back to

..............D............................A
If you had nothing to start out with

A....................................F#m
All my daddy left me was a name

............................D.......A
And a mouth full of bad teeth

But Odelia honey I'll be fine
If you meet me out on Friday night
I know Christian girls know what's wrong
But that doesn't mean they always have to do what's right


.....................................Bm
Save your money for the weekend

.............D...........................Bm.......D
And we'll dance through the fire

..........Bm.................D.................................F#m
You get one chance to make it through this life alive

....Bm.................D
We ain't got far to fall

................Bm...........................D
So lift your glass and we'll bet it all

....................Bm.........................D
Honey there's got to be some hell somewhere

..................E
waiting to be raised

Your family wants to condemn me
For the sins they commit themselves
But let them whisper dirty little secrets
Under those church house bells

And Odelia honey let it be known
I'd never tell you a lie
So if what I want to do is a sin
God better cover his eyes

Save your money for the weekend
And we'll dance through the fire
You get one chance to make it through this life alive
We ain't got far to fall
So lift your glass and we'll bet it all
Honey there's got to be some hell somewhere
waiting to be raised

So scrape together all of your pennies
Put on your favorite dress
And meet me down in the old part of town
For some excess

And Odelia honey I can't say
What's waiting for us up above
All I know is Southern girls are sweeter
'Cause they're full of Jesus' love

Save your money for the weekend
And we'll dance through the fire
You get one chance to make it through this life alive
We ain't got far to fall
So lift your glass and we'll bet it all
Honey there's got to be some hell somewhere
waiting to be raised

Glossary - Lonely Is a Town

E...G#m...F#m...A


Riff:
e:-----------------------------4-2-0-0--4-4h5p4-2-----------------
B:-------------------------------------------------------4-4h5p4-0--
G:---------------------4-4---------------------------------------------
D:--------2-2---4s6---------------------------------------------------
A:--2s4----------------------------------------------------------------
E:----------------------------------------------------------------------


e:-----------------------------4-2-0-0--4-4h5p4-2------------------2b--
B:-------------------------------------------------------4-4h5p4-0--------
G:---------------------4-4---------------------------------------------------
D:--------2-2---4s6---------------------------------------------------------
A:--2s4----------------------------------------------------------------------
E:----------------------------------------------------------------------------


E.....................G#m...A
Lonely is a town

.......E...................G#m...A
On a night like this

...............E..........................G#m....A
Where the city moans like a neon sign

.....G#m.............................A
Just flickering to try and stay lit

And the moon looks like a hole
Cut out of the sky
And shining through is a beacon of light
Somewhere from the other side

......E.............G#m
The ghosts are out

........F#m......................A
Their dancing among the living

.........E.................................G#m
If you listen you can hear them howl

.......F#m...........A
And I feel like an orphan

..............F#m
Wanting to know

............A
Where is home

I've been drug through the churches
Felt trapped like a dog on a chain
You can run as far as you want to
But something's pulling you back again

Because lonely is a town
When your floating through space on a stone
And nobody knows where we're headed
Maybe back to where we belong

The ghosts are out
Their dancing among the living
If you listen you can hear them howl
And I feel like an orphan
Wanting to know
Where is home


B.........................G#m
The wind only blows

B.................................G#m
'Cause it's got nowhere to go

.............F#m......A
To call its own

You don't need a soothsayer
To tell you how this life's going to go
It starts just like you remember it
And how it ends nobody's going to know

But your momma, she'll always be your momma
No matter what kind of trouble you get in
And your daddy may have never told you that he loves you
But it doesn't mean he never did.

The ghosts are out
Their dancing among the living
If you listen you can hear them howl
And I feel like an orphan
Wanting to know
Where is home
I wanna know
Where is home

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Elephant Micah - Free As the Freest

Dm........C...F
Dm........C...F

Dm
well I never thought

Dm.........................C...........F
that a bird could have been so perfect

Dm
no I never thought

Dm.........................C............F
that a bird could have been so perfect


...Bb
in death

..........Am
like the cuckoo

......Gm
who lay

........F
in the dew

.........Bb
was as free

.........Am
as the freest

.........Gm
of the ones

............F
who still flew

C.........Bb........Dm.......C
who still flew

and when every song bird
is singing his song for the sake of pleasure
and every song bird
is singing his song for the sake of pleasure

wasted breath
of the cuckoo
who lay
in the dew
was as free
as the freest
of the ones
who still flew
who still flew
who still flew