Biography:
Okkervil River is an indie/folk rock band from Austin, Texas USA. Formed in 1998, the band takes its name from a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya. The band currently consists of Will Sheff (vocals, guitar), Will Graefe (guitar), Sarah K. Pedinotti (keyboards), Benjamin Lazar Davis (bass) and Cully Symington (drums).
The band self-released their first album, Stars Too Small to Use, which led them to the South by Southwest music festival.
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Other songs:
- A Favor (guitar Solo)
- A Stone
- Lost Coastlines
- Maine Island Lovers
- Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe
- Plus Ones
- Song Of Our So-called Friend
- Westfall
- A Girl In Port
- A Glow
- A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene
- A King And A Queen
- All The Time Everyday
- Another Radio Song
- Auntie Alice
- Black
- Black Nemo
- Black Sheep Boy
- Blanket And Crib
- Blue Tulip
- Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel 1979
- Calling And Not Calling My Ex
- Comes Indiana Through The Smoke
- Dead Faces
- Do What You Gotta Do
- Dont Move Back To La
- Down Down The Deep River
- Famous Tracheotomies
- For Real
- For The Enemy
- From A Cutlass Cruiser
- Get Big
- Hanging From A Hit
- Happy Hearts
- It Ends With A Fall
- It Was My Season
- John Allyn Smith Sails
- Kansas City
- Lady Liberty
- Lay Of The Last Survivor
- Lido Pier Suicide Car
- Lines
- Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
- Love To A Monster
- Mary On A Wave
- No Hidden Track
- No Key No Plan
- Oh Precious
- Okkervil River Rip
- Okkervil River Song
- On A Balcony
- On Tour With Zykos
- Pink Slips
- Piratess
- Pop Lie
- Presidents Dead
- Red
- Rider
- Seas Too Far To Reach
- She Would Look For Me
- Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear
- Singer Songwriter
- So Come Back I Am Waiting
- Song About A Star
- Song Of Our So
- Starry Stairs
- The Industry
- The Latest Toughs
- The Next Four Months
- The Rise
- The Valley
- The War Criminal Rises And Speaks
- Title Track
- Unless Its Kicks
- Wake And Be Fine
- We Need A Myth
- Where The Spirit Left Us
- White
- White Shadow Waltz
- Yellow
- You Cant Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
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The song primarily uses fingerpicking, and uses a capo on the 3rd fret
Chorus has a walking riff which is listed on the bottom
[Chords]
Cmaj7 x32000
G 320033
Am x02210
Em 022000
C/G 332010
D xx0232
(Here is the riff played during the chorus)
e|---------------------------0----------3-----2---0--------------------|
B|--1------------------------1----------3-------------3----------------|
G|--2------------------------0-----2----0-----------------2------------|
D|--2--------------0--2--4---2----------0------------------------------| (x2)
A|--0-----0--2--3------------3----------2------------------------------|
E|---------------------------3----------3------------------------------|
[Intro]
Cmaj7 G
[Verse 1]
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
So does the ink dry out
G
So does the singing mouth get sung up
Cmaj7 Cmaj7 G
So does the new headline no longer reach the town
Cmaj7 Cmaj7 G
So does the rosy fire of the horizon fade into dull grey
Cmaj7 Cmaj7 G
While the trees out by the parking lot get greener with the rain
[Pre-Chorus]
Am Em
On a dazzling field of blue
Am G
She comes sailing into view
Am C/G D
All around her engines scream and guns unload
[Chorus]
e|---------------------------0----------3-----2---0--------------------|
B|--1------------------------1----------3-------------3----------------|
G|--2------------------------0-----2----0-----------------2------------|
D|--2--------------0--2--4---2----------0------------------------------| (x2)
A|--0-----0--2--3------------3----------2------------------------------|
E|---------------------------3----------3------------------------------|
Am C/G G
Comes Indiana through the smoke
Am C/G G
Indiana through the smoke
[Verse 2]
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
But you were bigger than life
G G
You were giant, you were earth-size
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
And now you're mostly just your mind
G G
And your dim eyes, and your fractured spine
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
And you're sailing to the great unknown
G
But you've gotta go alone there
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
You can't even take your childhood bride
G G
But it's okay that she's crying
[Pre-Chorus]
Am Em
With her OS2U fleet
Am G
Anti-aircraft battery
Am C/G D
She is occupied by 1800 souls
[Chorus 2]
e|---------------------------0----------3-----2---0--------------------|
B|--1------------------------1----------3-------------3----------------|
G|--2------------------------0-----2----0-----------------2------------|
D|--2--------------0--2--4---2----------0------------------------------| (x2)
A|--0-----0--2--3------------3----------2------------------------------|
E|---------------------------3----------3------------------------------|
Am C/G G
Comes Indiana through the smoke
Am C/G G
Indiana through the smoke
[Verse 3]
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
And this great big buzzing death-hole swells
G G
At the corner of the carpet
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
Nurses going in and out
G G
Well they all just step around it
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
And the room is moving in so close
G G
As some moment's coming nearer
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
And your story's coming out so slow
G G
But I come closer and can hear her
[Pre-Chorus]
Am Em
And she steams out Casco Bay
Am G
Part of Task Force 58
Am C/G D
And the young men 'board her all are brave and bold
e|---------------------------0----------3-----2---0--------------------|
B|--1------------------------1----------3-------------3----------------|
G|--2------------------------0-----2----0-----------------2------------|
D|--2--------------0--2--4---2----------0------------------------------| (x2)
A|--0-----0--2--3------------3----------2------------------------------|
E|---------------------------3----------3------------------------------|
[Chorus 3]
Am C/G G
Comes Indiana through the smoke
Am C/G G
Indiana through the smoke
[Pre-Chorus]
Am Em
She won't sink or run aground
Am G
She won't turn back, she won't back down
Am C/G D
When you find your time to finally let go
[Chorus 4]
e|---------------------------0----------3-----2---0--------------------|
B|--1------------------------1----------3-------------3----------------|
G|--2------------------------0-----2----0-----------------2------------|
D|--2--------------0--2--4---2----------0------------------------------| (x2)
A|--0-----0--2--3------------3----------2------------------------------|
E|---------------------------3----------3------------------------------|
Am C/G G
Comes Indiana through the smoke
Am C/G G
Indiana through the smoke
[Outro]
Am C/G G
Am C/G G
Chorus has a walking riff which is listed on the bottom
[Chords]
Cmaj7 x32000
G 320033
Am x02210
Em 022000
C/G 332010
D xx0232
(Here is the riff played during the chorus)
e|---------------------------0----------3-----2---0--------------------|
B|--1------------------------1----------3-------------3----------------|
G|--2------------------------0-----2----0-----------------2------------|
D|--2--------------0--2--4---2----------0------------------------------| (x2)
A|--0-----0--2--3------------3----------2------------------------------|
E|---------------------------3----------3------------------------------|
[Intro]
Cmaj7 G
[Verse 1]
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
So does the ink dry out
G
So does the singing mouth get sung up
Cmaj7 Cmaj7 G
So does the new headline no longer reach the town
Cmaj7 Cmaj7 G
So does the rosy fire of the horizon fade into dull grey
Cmaj7 Cmaj7 G
While the trees out by the parking lot get greener with the rain
[Pre-Chorus]
Am Em
On a dazzling field of blue
Am G
She comes sailing into view
Am C/G D
All around her engines scream and guns unload
[Chorus]
e|---------------------------0----------3-----2---0--------------------|
B|--1------------------------1----------3-------------3----------------|
G|--2------------------------0-----2----0-----------------2------------|
D|--2--------------0--2--4---2----------0------------------------------| (x2)
A|--0-----0--2--3------------3----------2------------------------------|
E|---------------------------3----------3------------------------------|
Am C/G G
Comes Indiana through the smoke
Am C/G G
Indiana through the smoke
[Verse 2]
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
But you were bigger than life
G G
You were giant, you were earth-size
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
And now you're mostly just your mind
G G
And your dim eyes, and your fractured spine
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
And you're sailing to the great unknown
G
But you've gotta go alone there
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
You can't even take your childhood bride
G G
But it's okay that she's crying
[Pre-Chorus]
Am Em
With her OS2U fleet
Am G
Anti-aircraft battery
Am C/G D
She is occupied by 1800 souls
[Chorus 2]
e|---------------------------0----------3-----2---0--------------------|
B|--1------------------------1----------3-------------3----------------|
G|--2------------------------0-----2----0-----------------2------------|
D|--2--------------0--2--4---2----------0------------------------------| (x2)
A|--0-----0--2--3------------3----------2------------------------------|
E|---------------------------3----------3------------------------------|
Am C/G G
Comes Indiana through the smoke
Am C/G G
Indiana through the smoke
[Verse 3]
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
And this great big buzzing death-hole swells
G G
At the corner of the carpet
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
Nurses going in and out
G G
Well they all just step around it
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
And the room is moving in so close
G G
As some moment's coming nearer
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
And your story's coming out so slow
G G
But I come closer and can hear her
[Pre-Chorus]
Am Em
And she steams out Casco Bay
Am G
Part of Task Force 58
Am C/G D
And the young men 'board her all are brave and bold
e|---------------------------0----------3-----2---0--------------------|
B|--1------------------------1----------3-------------3----------------|
G|--2------------------------0-----2----0-----------------2------------|
D|--2--------------0--2--4---2----------0------------------------------| (x2)
A|--0-----0--2--3------------3----------2------------------------------|
E|---------------------------3----------3------------------------------|
[Chorus 3]
Am C/G G
Comes Indiana through the smoke
Am C/G G
Indiana through the smoke
[Pre-Chorus]
Am Em
She won't sink or run aground
Am G
She won't turn back, she won't back down
Am C/G D
When you find your time to finally let go
[Chorus 4]
e|---------------------------0----------3-----2---0--------------------|
B|--1------------------------1----------3-------------3----------------|
G|--2------------------------0-----2----0-----------------2------------|
D|--2--------------0--2--4---2----------0------------------------------| (x2)
A|--0-----0--2--3------------3----------2------------------------------|
E|---------------------------3----------3------------------------------|
Am C/G G
Comes Indiana through the smoke
Am C/G G
Indiana through the smoke
[Outro]
Am C/G G
Am C/G G
Old Man Luedecke
Old Man Markley
Oldelaf
Oldelaf Et Monsi (...)
Oldporch
Olivia Newton Jo (...)
Olivia O'br (...)
Olivia Olson
Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Ruby