Biography:
Mark Erelli (born 1975) is an American folk singer/songwriter from Reading, Massachusetts now living in Portland, Maine. His album, Hope & Other Casualties, is a collection of folk and Americana songs with stylistic arrangements, including "The Only Way", written in response to the September 11, 2001 attack and covered by Ellis Paul and Vance Gilbert.
On "Compass & Companion", Mark partnered with Kelly Willis for the title song.
He regularly tours in support of Kris Delmhorst
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Other songs:
- 23Rd Street
- A Bend In The River
- Abraham
- Aint No Time Of Year To Be Alone
- All Behind Me Now
- Almost Home
- Alright For Now
- Analog Hero
- August
- Baltimore
- Basement Days
- Before I Knew Your Name
- Billy Gray
- Birches
- Blue
- Brand New Baby
- Call You Home
- Close Your Eyes
- Coming Home
- Compass And Companion
- Defying Gravity
- Evenings Curtain
- Five Beer Moon
- Ghost
- Hartfordtown 1944
- Hemlock Grove
- Here And Now
- Hope Dies Last
- Ice Fishing
- Ichabod
- Imaginary Wars
- Innocent When You Dream
- Kingdom Come
- Little Sister
- Midnight Train
- My Best Was Just Not Good Enough For You
- My Darling
- Northern Star
- Only Wondering Where You Are
- Passing Through
- Pauline
- Pilgrim Highway
- Pretend
- Snowed In
- The Only Way
- Tired Eyes
- Tom Merritt
- Undone
- Volunteers
- Why Should I Cry
- Wyoming Wind
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[Intro]
E E7 Em7 C D E7 Em7 C D E
[Verse]
D
He was just a blue eyed Boston boy
A
His voice was low with pain
E D
I'll do your bidding comrade mine
A
If I ride back again
E A
But if you ride on and I should fall
E
You'll do as much for me
A D
Mother at home is awaiting the news
E A
So write her tenderly
[Verse]
E D
She is waiting at home like a patient saint
A
Her fond face pale with woe
E D
Her heart will be broken when I am dead
A
I'll see her face no more
E A
Just then the order came to charge
E
For a moment hand touched hand
A D
They answered "Aye" and away they rode
E A
That brave and devoted band
[Verse]
E D
Straight way was the course to the top of the hill
A
And the rebels with shot and shell
E D
Ploughed furrows of death through the toiling ranks
A
And guarded them as they fell
E A
There soon came a horrible dying sound
E
From the heights they could not gain
A D
And those that doom and death had spared
E A
Rode slowly back again
[Verse]
E D
But among the dead at the top of the hill
A
Was the boy with the golden hair
E D
And the tall dark man that rode by his side
A
Lay still beside him there
E A
There was no one to write to his blue-eyed girl
E
The words that her lover had said
A D
And mother at home is awaiting the news
E A
She'll only find he's dead
A D
While mother at home is awaiting the news
E A
She'll only find he's dead
E E7 Em7 C D E7 Em7 C D E
[Verse]
D
He was just a blue eyed Boston boy
A
His voice was low with pain
E D
I'll do your bidding comrade mine
A
If I ride back again
E A
But if you ride on and I should fall
E
You'll do as much for me
A D
Mother at home is awaiting the news
E A
So write her tenderly
[Verse]
E D
She is waiting at home like a patient saint
A
Her fond face pale with woe
E D
Her heart will be broken when I am dead
A
I'll see her face no more
E A
Just then the order came to charge
E
For a moment hand touched hand
A D
They answered "Aye" and away they rode
E A
That brave and devoted band
[Verse]
E D
Straight way was the course to the top of the hill
A
And the rebels with shot and shell
E D
Ploughed furrows of death through the toiling ranks
A
And guarded them as they fell
E A
There soon came a horrible dying sound
E
From the heights they could not gain
A D
And those that doom and death had spared
E A
Rode slowly back again
[Verse]
E D
But among the dead at the top of the hill
A
Was the boy with the golden hair
E D
And the tall dark man that rode by his side
A
Lay still beside him there
E A
There was no one to write to his blue-eyed girl
E
The words that her lover had said
A D
And mother at home is awaiting the news
E A
She'll only find he's dead
A D
While mother at home is awaiting the news
E A
She'll only find he's dead
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