Biography:
Richard Shindell (born 3 August 1960, Lakehurst, New Jersey) is an American folk singer. While dividing his time between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and New York's Hudson Valley, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, and juxtapose ideas and images.
Shindell's songwriting often involves storytelling from a first-person point of view: for example, from an INS officer and illegal immigrant in "Fishing", to a World War II soldier in "Sparrows Point"
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Other songs:
- A Juggler Out In Traffic
- A Summer Wind A Cotton Dress
- A Tune For Nowhere
- Acadian Driftwood
- Are You Happy Now
- Arrowhead
- Beyond The Iron Gate
- Blue Divide
- By Now
- Castaway
- Darkness Darkness
- Deportee
- Easy Street
- Fishing
- Gethsemani Goodbye
- Gray Green
- I Saw My Youth Today
- Ill Be Here In The Morning
- Last Fare Of The Day
- Lawrence Ks
- May
- Money For Floods
- Northbound 35
- On A Sea Of Fleur
- Parasol Ants
- Reunion Hill
- Sing Me Back Home
- Smiling
- So Says The Whippoorwill
- Sparrows Point
- Spring
- State Of The Union
- Storms Are On The Ocean
- Summer Wind A Cotton Dress
- The Ballad Of Mary Magdalen
- The Courier
- The Kenworth Of My Dreams
- The Last Fare Of The Day
- The Next Best Western
- The Things That I Have Seen
- The Weather
- Transit
- Tv Light
- Waiting For The Storm
- Wisteria
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Richard Shindell - State Of The Union
CAPO: 3rd Fret
INTRO: Em C (5x)
Em G C G C
That nice easy mark at the edge of the park
G C D
A slam dunk if ever I saw one
Em G C G
I don't know what happened, I just let it go by
C D Em C Em C
I guess maybe out of respect
Em G C G C
This old town is my home, and I'm not so far gone
G C D
That I don't feel like anyone else
Em G C G
And it didn't seem right to add to the wrong
C D Em
I decided to get me some help
CHORUS:
C D Em
If not now, then when? I was asking myself
C G D
Over and over again
Em G C Am
Make it right, get free, get rid of the junk
C D Em C Em C
I've heard it can happen that way
Em G C G
So I went down to the clinic on a Hundred and Tenth
C G C D
I got on the methadone program
Em G C G
I waited on line every morning at nine
C D Em C Em C
For my little white cup, my reprieve
Em G C G
It was going okay, I was feeling alright
C G C D
I even got back with my daughter
Em G C G C
I lost a few friends, they were anything but
D Em
Just took it one day at time
CHORUS:
C D Em
If not now, then when? I was asking myself
C G D
Over and over again
Em G C Am C
Make it right, get free, get rid of the junk
D Em C Em C
They say it can happen that way
INSTRUMENTAL: G C G C G C D Em G C G C D Em C Em C
Em G C G C
I can't say for sure how it all fell apart
G C D
One thing just led to another
Em G C G
Next thing I knew, I had stolen a car
C D Em C Em C
I was flying straight up to the Bronx
Em G C G
Must've lost the old touch, I blew through a toll
C G C D
They caught me just outside of Rye
Em G C G
Sporting all that remained of my new-found resolve
C D Em
A shirt that said NYPD
CHORUS:
C D Em
Some shred of my soul could almost believe
C G D
That the Lord sent those cruisers for me
Em G C Am C
Make it right, get free, get rid of the junk
D Em
But it don't always happen that way
INTERLUDE: C Em C Em C Em C
Em G C G
At the half-way house we're sitting around
C G C D
Watching the State of the Union
Em G C G
Me, I'm rolling that stone right back up the hill
C D Em C Em C
Watch out for the shit coming down
Em G C G
'Cause the President's up there grinning that grin
C G C D
Thinking he's some kind of John Wayne
Em G C G
We're howling and jeering, all his talk about drilling
C D Em
And shooting our way out of this
CHORUS:
C D Em
If not now then when, we're all asking ourselves
C G D
Over and over again
Em G C Am C
Make it right? Get free? Get rid of the junk?
D Em
But it don't always happen that way
OUTRO: C Em C Em C Em C Em C Em C Em C Em
CAPO: 3rd Fret
INTRO: Em C (5x)
Em G C G C
That nice easy mark at the edge of the park
G C D
A slam dunk if ever I saw one
Em G C G
I don't know what happened, I just let it go by
C D Em C Em C
I guess maybe out of respect
Em G C G C
This old town is my home, and I'm not so far gone
G C D
That I don't feel like anyone else
Em G C G
And it didn't seem right to add to the wrong
C D Em
I decided to get me some help
CHORUS:
C D Em
If not now, then when? I was asking myself
C G D
Over and over again
Em G C Am
Make it right, get free, get rid of the junk
C D Em C Em C
I've heard it can happen that way
Em G C G
So I went down to the clinic on a Hundred and Tenth
C G C D
I got on the methadone program
Em G C G
I waited on line every morning at nine
C D Em C Em C
For my little white cup, my reprieve
Em G C G
It was going okay, I was feeling alright
C G C D
I even got back with my daughter
Em G C G C
I lost a few friends, they were anything but
D Em
Just took it one day at time
CHORUS:
C D Em
If not now, then when? I was asking myself
C G D
Over and over again
Em G C Am C
Make it right, get free, get rid of the junk
D Em C Em C
They say it can happen that way
INSTRUMENTAL: G C G C G C D Em G C G C D Em C Em C
Em G C G C
I can't say for sure how it all fell apart
G C D
One thing just led to another
Em G C G
Next thing I knew, I had stolen a car
C D Em C Em C
I was flying straight up to the Bronx
Em G C G
Must've lost the old touch, I blew through a toll
C G C D
They caught me just outside of Rye
Em G C G
Sporting all that remained of my new-found resolve
C D Em
A shirt that said NYPD
CHORUS:
C D Em
Some shred of my soul could almost believe
C G D
That the Lord sent those cruisers for me
Em G C Am C
Make it right, get free, get rid of the junk
D Em
But it don't always happen that way
INTERLUDE: C Em C Em C Em C
Em G C G
At the half-way house we're sitting around
C G C D
Watching the State of the Union
Em G C G
Me, I'm rolling that stone right back up the hill
C D Em C Em C
Watch out for the shit coming down
Em G C G
'Cause the President's up there grinning that grin
C G C D
Thinking he's some kind of John Wayne
Em G C G
We're howling and jeering, all his talk about drilling
C D Em
And shooting our way out of this
CHORUS:
C D Em
If not now then when, we're all asking ourselves
C G D
Over and over again
Em G C Am C
Make it right? Get free? Get rid of the junk?
D Em
But it don't always happen that way
OUTRO: C Em C Em C Em C Em C Em C Em C Em
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