Biography:
Mandolin Orange is a folk duo based out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The group was formed in 2009 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and consists of the group's songwriter Andrew Marlin (vocals, mandolin, guitar, banjo) and Emily Frantz (vocals, violin, guitar). Mandolin Orange has produced six albums of Marlin's original works of American roots music.
Mandolin Orange’s music radiates a mysterious warmth —their songs feel like whispered secrets, one hand cupped to your ear.
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Other songs:
- A Thousand Amen
- Big Men In The Sky
- Blue Ruin
- Boots Of Spanish Leather
- Cavalry
- Clover Tune
- Darling Girl
- Daylight
- Echo
- From Now On
- Golden Embers
- Gospel Shoes
- Hard Travelin
- Haste Make
- Haste Make Hard Hearted Stranger
- Hey Adam
- Hey Stranger
- Hiawathas Lullaby
- House Of Stone
- Into The Sun
- Jump Mountain Blues
- Life On A String
- Like You Used To
- Lines On The Floor
- Little Worlds
- Lonesome Whistle
- Missouri Borderlands
- Morphine Girl
- My Blinded Heart
- No Weight
- Of Which There Is No Like
- Old Ties And Companions
- One More Down
- Picking Up Pieces
- Poor Boy Poor Me
- Rounder
- Runnin Red
- Settled Down
- Ships Sail Away
- Slither
- Stone Wall
- Suspended In Heaven
- Take This Heart Of Gold
- That Wrecking Ball
- The Doorman
- The Runaround
- The Wolves
- There Was A Time
- These Old Wheels
- Time We Made Time
- Train Song
- Turtle Dove
- Until The Last Light Fades
- Waltz About Whiskey
- Wee Bird
- Wildfire
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The whole song is finger picked mostly, but these are the chords. There's more extravagant notes played
throughout the song, and I've added some of the easier ones to play with just one person playing.
I've seen this chord labeled as both Db and C#m, but I've written it as C#m for this:
e|--------|
B|--------|
G|--6-----|
D|--6-----|
A|--4-----|
E|--------|
Between the F#m and the A, there's a quick bass from G#m, like this:
e|-----------|
B|-----------|
G|-----------|
D|-----------|
A|---------0-|
E|---2--4----|
And right before the first chord of the chorus, they hit one quick note before playing the C#m, like this:
e|-----------|
B|-----------|
G|------6----|
D|------6----|
A|---6--4----|
E|-----------|
[Intro]
E A E F#m A B E
[Verse 1]
E G#m A E
Some set their heads to swimming, nothing to lose
F#m A B E
And drift about the good times with slippers in their boots
E G#m A E
Some walk the straight and narrow, only passing through.
F#m A B E
Trading this world over for a pair of gospel shoes
[Bridge]
E G#m A E
F#m A B E
[Verse 2]
E G#m A E
Gospel shoes are laces shackled and chained
F#m A B E
Fitted for the poor, the runners of the race
E G#m A E
Now every hand is folded to the shape of a gun
F#m A B E
The targets ever changing but the war, it rages on
[Chorus]
C#m E
So the armies march onward
E B
for the Mother and the Son
C#m E
As this world of screaming color
E B
its bleached in the blood.
[Bridge]
E G#m A E
F#m A B E
[Verse 3]
E G#m A E
Freedom was a simple word, so reverent and true
F#m A B E
A long time ago it meant the right to choose
E G#m A E
Who you love and how to live, but now it's so misused
F#m A B E
And twisted by the politics of men in gospel shoes.
[Chorus]
C#m E
So the armies march onward
E B
for the mother and the son
C#m E
As this world of screaming color
E B
is bleached in the blood.
A B
Our mother, she is crying
E B A
Her broken heart is blue
A B
'cus we're too busy dying
E G#m A
to love just like we lose
A B
gone weary of the light
A B
shes tired of all this fighting
A E
in the name of gospel shoes
[Outro]
E G#m A E
F#m A B E
(Repeat)
throughout the song, and I've added some of the easier ones to play with just one person playing.
I've seen this chord labeled as both Db and C#m, but I've written it as C#m for this:
e|--------|
B|--------|
G|--6-----|
D|--6-----|
A|--4-----|
E|--------|
Between the F#m and the A, there's a quick bass from G#m, like this:
e|-----------|
B|-----------|
G|-----------|
D|-----------|
A|---------0-|
E|---2--4----|
And right before the first chord of the chorus, they hit one quick note before playing the C#m, like this:
e|-----------|
B|-----------|
G|------6----|
D|------6----|
A|---6--4----|
E|-----------|
[Intro]
E A E F#m A B E
[Verse 1]
E G#m A E
Some set their heads to swimming, nothing to lose
F#m A B E
And drift about the good times with slippers in their boots
E G#m A E
Some walk the straight and narrow, only passing through.
F#m A B E
Trading this world over for a pair of gospel shoes
[Bridge]
E G#m A E
F#m A B E
[Verse 2]
E G#m A E
Gospel shoes are laces shackled and chained
F#m A B E
Fitted for the poor, the runners of the race
E G#m A E
Now every hand is folded to the shape of a gun
F#m A B E
The targets ever changing but the war, it rages on
[Chorus]
C#m E
So the armies march onward
E B
for the Mother and the Son
C#m E
As this world of screaming color
E B
its bleached in the blood.
[Bridge]
E G#m A E
F#m A B E
[Verse 3]
E G#m A E
Freedom was a simple word, so reverent and true
F#m A B E
A long time ago it meant the right to choose
E G#m A E
Who you love and how to live, but now it's so misused
F#m A B E
And twisted by the politics of men in gospel shoes.
[Chorus]
C#m E
So the armies march onward
E B
for the mother and the son
C#m E
As this world of screaming color
E B
is bleached in the blood.
A B
Our mother, she is crying
E B A
Her broken heart is blue
A B
'cus we're too busy dying
E G#m A
to love just like we lose
A B
gone weary of the light
A B
shes tired of all this fighting
A E
in the name of gospel shoes
[Outro]
E G#m A E
F#m A B E
(Repeat)
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