Biography:
Joan Shelley is an American singer-songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky. Her warm and mellifluous voice evokes both the deep south and west coast, drawing from both old-time country and sixties folk.
A talented songwriter and prolific performer, Shelley splits her time between solo outings and collaborations with other area musicians like Daniel Martin Moore and Joe Manning, with whom she issued the albums Farthest Field (2012) and Outside Stay Outside (2014)
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[Verse]
C F
You've torn your shirt, you've outgrown this town
C G
Your friends are all scattered and you're lonesome
C F
But you're still searchin' for music in the sounds
C G
It's a tame world would leave you unbroken
[Verse]
C F
Oh lady, oh mother bring your garden to me
C G
Pull it 'round my body so the world cannot see
C F
Blue of my veins and the tracks on my cheeks
C G C
Leave the tulips for when I go under
[Chorus]
F C G
But it's not over by half
F C Am G
There's a gold in your eyes bloomin' out through the black
F C F
And you're still standing, your hand on the map
C G C
No, it's not over, not over by half
[Verse]
C F
And when that day comes and the lights grow dim
C G
The weight off your shoulders, the sun off your skin
C F
And the ones who have known you, your lovers and friends
C G C
Will be marked by a spark that was taken
[Chorus]
F C G
But it's not over by half
F C Am G
There's a gold in your eyes bloomin' out through the black
F C F
And you're still standing, your hand on the map
C G C
No, it's not over, not over by half
[Verse]
C F
Here on the mountain I am thinking of you
C G
The birds are all singing, screaming of youth
C F
And here I am holding just keeping a room
C G C
Just a place you can lay when you're older
[Chorus]
F C G
But it's not over by half
F C Am G
There's a gold in your eyes bloomin' out through the black
F C F
And you're still standing, your hand on the map
C G C
No, it's not over, not over by half
C F
You've torn your shirt, you've outgrown this town
C G
Your friends are all scattered and you're lonesome
C F
But you're still searchin' for music in the sounds
C G
It's a tame world would leave you unbroken
[Verse]
C F
Oh lady, oh mother bring your garden to me
C G
Pull it 'round my body so the world cannot see
C F
Blue of my veins and the tracks on my cheeks
C G C
Leave the tulips for when I go under
[Chorus]
F C G
But it's not over by half
F C Am G
There's a gold in your eyes bloomin' out through the black
F C F
And you're still standing, your hand on the map
C G C
No, it's not over, not over by half
[Verse]
C F
And when that day comes and the lights grow dim
C G
The weight off your shoulders, the sun off your skin
C F
And the ones who have known you, your lovers and friends
C G C
Will be marked by a spark that was taken
[Chorus]
F C G
But it's not over by half
F C Am G
There's a gold in your eyes bloomin' out through the black
F C F
And you're still standing, your hand on the map
C G C
No, it's not over, not over by half
[Verse]
C F
Here on the mountain I am thinking of you
C G
The birds are all singing, screaming of youth
C F
And here I am holding just keeping a room
C G C
Just a place you can lay when you're older
[Chorus]
F C G
But it's not over by half
F C Am G
There's a gold in your eyes bloomin' out through the black
F C F
And you're still standing, your hand on the map
C G C
No, it's not over, not over by half
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