Biography:
Matthew Ryan (born November 7, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter hailing from Newark, Delaware whose music can be roughly characterized as alternative country. Ryan also collaborated with Neilson Hubbard to form the band Strays Don't Sleep. Ryan's voice has been described as a "hushed rasp, with words catching like vows destined to be broken - one of modern music's most potent whispers."
Perhaps the most underrated singer/songwriter of the past 12 years, Matthew Ryan arrived on the music scene in 1997 with Mayday.
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Other songs:
- 3Rd Of October
- All I Wanted
- All Of That Means Nothing Now
- All The Wild Horses
- American Dirt
- An Anthem For The Broken
- And Its Such A Drag
- Battle Born
- Beautiful Fool
- Boxer
- Boxers
- Certainly Never
- Chrome
- Close Your Eyes
- Comfort
- Dam
- Dear Lover
- Devastation
- Dulce Et Decorum Est
- Gods Not Here Tonight
- Guilty
- Heartache Weather
- Heavens Hill
- Hey Kid
- Hold On Firefly
- I Cant Steal You
- I Hear A Symphony
- I Just Died Like An Aviator
- I Must Love Leaving
- Irrelevant
- It Could Of Been Worse
- Its A Delicate Waltz
- Jane I Still Feel The Same
- Lights Of The Commodore Barry
- Long Blvd
- Maybe Ill Disappear
- Me And My Lover
- Railroaded
- Return To Me
- Run Rabbit Run
- Sadly Love
- Spark
- Still Part Two
- Summer In The South
- Summer Never Ends
- Sunk
- T Decorum Est
- The Dead Girl
- The First Heartbreak
- Then She Threw Me Like A Hand Grenade
- There Was A Day
- They Were Wrong
- This Ones For You Frankie
- Trouble Doll
- Until Kingdom Come
- Watch You Step
- Your Museun
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This is Matthew Ryan's song 'Lights of the Commodore Barry', the 6th track from his 1997
album "May Day". It's in standard tuning with capo on the 2nd fret.
Verse 1:
D
I saw the lights of the Commodore Barry
From the deck of the ghost of the flower street ferry
G A
And I felt the shock of an atom bomb
D A
When the tired old city of Chester
Em A
Was draped and dying in my arms
D
For a while I was lost under the weight of remembering
Of how the sun would warn the projects some mornings
G A
When the birds were falling like winter's frozen rain
D A
And I was all fingers numb holding a brown paper lunch
Em A
Twelve years old and already ashamed
Interlude: D, G, A, D, A, Em, A
Verse 2:
D
Now soon I was floating over Highland Avenue
By my side was the Red Cross, the Pope and the President too
G A
Yeah I had returned like I swore I would
D A
To right some wrongs and sing my song
Em A
And share the luck that every man should
D
But when the fever broke and I awoke from the dream
I was passed out beside a jukebox siphoning gasoline
G A
When my brother yanked me hard from the corner bar
D A
And carried my drunk bones all the way home
Em A
Draped and heavy in his arms
End on D.
album "May Day". It's in standard tuning with capo on the 2nd fret.
Verse 1:
D
I saw the lights of the Commodore Barry
From the deck of the ghost of the flower street ferry
G A
And I felt the shock of an atom bomb
D A
When the tired old city of Chester
Em A
Was draped and dying in my arms
D
For a while I was lost under the weight of remembering
Of how the sun would warn the projects some mornings
G A
When the birds were falling like winter's frozen rain
D A
And I was all fingers numb holding a brown paper lunch
Em A
Twelve years old and already ashamed
Interlude: D, G, A, D, A, Em, A
Verse 2:
D
Now soon I was floating over Highland Avenue
By my side was the Red Cross, the Pope and the President too
G A
Yeah I had returned like I swore I would
D A
To right some wrongs and sing my song
Em A
And share the luck that every man should
D
But when the fever broke and I awoke from the dream
I was passed out beside a jukebox siphoning gasoline
G A
When my brother yanked me hard from the corner bar
D A
And carried my drunk bones all the way home
Em A
Draped and heavy in his arms
End on D.
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