Biography:
John Gorka (born in July 1958) is an American contemporary folk musician. In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine called him "the pre-eminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk Movement.
Gorka was born in Edison, New Jersey. He received his first guitar as a Christmas gift, though Gorka alleges that his older brother stole it from him shortly thereafter. He eventually learned, instead, to play the banjo, and began performing in a folk music group at his church.
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- Always
- Always Going Home
- Amber Lee
- Armed With A Broken Heart
- Arms Length
- Blue Chalk
- Bluer State
- Blues Palace
- Branching Out
- Bright Side Of Down
- Cant Get Over It
- Cant Make Up My Mind
- Carnival Knowledge Second Hand Face
- Chance Of Rain
- Christmas Bells
- Cypress Trees
- Diminishing Winds
- Dogs And Thunder
- Down In The Milltown
- Downtown Tonight
- Edgar The Party Man
- Flying Red Horse
- Full Of Life
- Hank Senior Moment
- Heart Upon Demand
- Heroes
- High Horse
- Holed Up Mason City
- Honeybee
- Houses In The Fields
- I Dont Feel Like A Train
- I Know
- I Saw A Stranger With Your Hair
- I Think Of You
- Ignorance And Privilege
- Im From New Jersey
- Jailbirds In The Bighouse
- January Floor
- Joint Of No Return
- Land Of The Bottom Line
- Lay Me Down
- Let Them In
- Lightnings Blues
- Like My Watch
- Look The Other Way
- Looking Forward
- Love Is Our Cross To Bear
- Make Them Crazy
- Mind To Think
- More Than One
- Morningside
- My Invisible Gun
- Night Into Day
- Night Is A Woman
- Oh Abraham
- Out Of The Valley
- Outnumbered
- Outside
- Over There
- Paradise Once
- Part Of Your Own
- People My Age
- Poor Side
- Promnight In Pigtown
- Raven In The Storm
- Really Spring
- Riverside
- Road Of Good Intentions
- Sailing
- Satellites
- Scraping Dixie
- Shape Of The World
- Shapes
- Shes That Kind Of Mystery
- Silence
- Snow Dont Fall
- Soldier After All
- That Was The Year
- The Ballad Of Jamie Bee
- The Gypsy Life
- The Mercy Of The Wheels
- The Mortal Groove
- The One That Got Away
- The Sentinel
- Thorny Patch
- Thoughtless Behaviour
- Treasure Islands
- Trouble And Care
- Unblindfold The Referee
- Up Until Then
- Vinnie Charles Is Free
- War Makes War
- What Was That
- When He Cries
- When The Ice Goes Out
- When You Walk In
- Where No Monument Stands
- Where The Bottles Break
- Winter Cows
- Wisheries
- Writing In The Margins
- Youre On Your Way
- Zuly
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From: [email protected] (Bob Steidl)
Raven In the Storm
written by John Gorka and Geoff Bartley
performed by John Gorka from "Land of the Bottom Line"
He plays this with a capo on the 1st fret (or tunes up).
I've chorded it as if played in the first position.
Intro: Em D C D (4x)
|-------------------------------------| h = hammer on
|-------------------------------------|
|----5-h353----0----------------------| Played with
|-3----------5---3---6--h565--0--2----| capo on 1st fret
|----------------------------------3--| Solo is similar
|-------------------------------------|
Verse:
Em D C D
I'm the latest apparition
Em D C D
Cutting slices in the night
Em D C D
I come through without permission
Em D C D
Moving in and out of sight
I'm the tapping on your shoulder
I'm the raven in the storm
I'll take shelter in your rafters
I'm the shiver when you're warm
Chorus:
G D
I'm the gold in California
C D
I'm the well in Mexico
G D
Like the vultures in the valley
C
I will wait for you to go
Em D C D (4x)
I'm the gypsy in your pocket
I'm the horseman in your dreams
I'm the reason dogs are barking
I'm the hand that stops the scream
I'm the baby's cry that isn't
I am the distant relative
I'm the scratching in the ceiling
I'm advice you shouldn't give
Chorus:
I'm the ghost of a traveling salesman
My foot will be there in your door
Though I can walk through walls and windows
I will knock just like before
I'm the darkness in your daughter
I'm the spot beneath the skin
I'm the scarlet on the pavement
I am the broken heart within
Chorus:
I won't take a train to nowhere
I will not touch just anyone
Ask a stranger why I'm waiting
In the chamber of a gun
Hint: At first, the strum pattern in the Verse/Intro seemed
somewhat awkward. Hitting all the "D" chords on the
UP stroke rather than the DOWN stroke seems right.
Bob Steidl
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
From: [email protected] (Bob Steidl)
Raven In the Storm
written by John Gorka and Geoff Bartley
performed by John Gorka from "Land of the Bottom Line"
He plays this with a capo on the 1st fret (or tunes up).
I've chorded it as if played in the first position.
Intro: Em D C D (4x)
|-------------------------------------| h = hammer on
|-------------------------------------|
|----5-h353----0----------------------| Played with
|-3----------5---3---6--h565--0--2----| capo on 1st fret
|----------------------------------3--| Solo is similar
|-------------------------------------|
Verse:
Em D C D
I'm the latest apparition
Em D C D
Cutting slices in the night
Em D C D
I come through without permission
Em D C D
Moving in and out of sight
I'm the tapping on your shoulder
I'm the raven in the storm
I'll take shelter in your rafters
I'm the shiver when you're warm
Chorus:
G D
I'm the gold in California
C D
I'm the well in Mexico
G D
Like the vultures in the valley
C
I will wait for you to go
Em D C D (4x)
I'm the gypsy in your pocket
I'm the horseman in your dreams
I'm the reason dogs are barking
I'm the hand that stops the scream
I'm the baby's cry that isn't
I am the distant relative
I'm the scratching in the ceiling
I'm advice you shouldn't give
Chorus:
I'm the ghost of a traveling salesman
My foot will be there in your door
Though I can walk through walls and windows
I will knock just like before
I'm the darkness in your daughter
I'm the spot beneath the skin
I'm the scarlet on the pavement
I am the broken heart within
Chorus:
I won't take a train to nowhere
I will not touch just anyone
Ask a stranger why I'm waiting
In the chamber of a gun
Hint: At first, the strum pattern in the Verse/Intro seemed
somewhat awkward. Hitting all the "D" chords on the
UP stroke rather than the DOWN stroke seems right.
Bob Steidl
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