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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[Verse 1]
G D
When I had my tracheotomy
Am
I was blue and had stopped breathing
Em C
There was something wrong with me
G D
Doctors cut through the cartilage and skin
Am
At the bottom of my throat
C Am D
And then they snaked that trach tube in
[Chorus 1]
Bm Em
And I was one and a half
Am
I was my parents only kid
Em C
And they had lost two before that
Bm Em C
And growing up, I always knew how close I'd come
D
Well, that must have been scary, Mom
[Verse 2]
G D
Gary Coleman, he was "Arnold" on TV
Am Em C
Well, I grew up watching him and Conrad Bain and Kimberly
G D
It turns out that he had a trach scar too
Am
Where they cut into his throat
C Am D
And then they threaded that tube through
[Chorus 2]
Bm Em
But that was much later on
Am Em C
In the year that he turned forty when his fanbase was all gone
Bm Em
And his health was so touch-and-go
C
His girlfriend proposed
D
But they broke up on a TV show
[Verse 3]
G D
Mary Wells, she was known as Motown's Queen
Am Em C
But laryngeal cancer left her unable to sing
G D
They tried radiation, multiple surgeries
Am C Am D
But she didn't have insurance and lost almost everything
Poor thing
[Chorus 3]
Bm Em
But Diana Ross helped with her bills
Am Em C
Aretha Franklin tried her very best to help out Mary Wells
Bm Em
And Dionne Warwick did all she could do
C
And Mary Wells, she pulled through
D
For one more year or two
[Verse 4]
G D
Dylan Thomas looked completely pale and weak
Am Em C
On a trip to New York City to promote his poety
G D
Three straight days of drinking out in Greenwich and Chelsea
Am C Am D
He was taken to the hospital, turned blue and not breathing
[Chorus 4]
Bm Em
And Caitlin Thomas said
Am
When she walked into St Vincent's
Em C
"Is the bloody man dead yet?"
Bm Em C
And later that day she got so drunk she was restrained
D
And her husband slipped away
[Verse 5]
G D
Ray Davies had a tracheotomy
Am Em C
He was at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, aged thirteen
G D
And during his long recovery
Am
Nurses put him in a wheelchair
C Am D
And they'd wheel him out onto a balcony (on a balcony)
[Chorus 5]
Bm Em
And down that evening sun did sink
Am Em C
Painting London and the river and that freaked-out future Kink
Bm Em
Waterloo lit up for one sick kid
C D
And, at 23, he recorded a song about it
[Outro}
G D Am C
G D
When I had my tracheotomy
Am
I was blue and had stopped breathing
Em C
There was something wrong with me
G D
Doctors cut through the cartilage and skin
Am
At the bottom of my throat
C Am D
And then they snaked that trach tube in
[Chorus 1]
Bm Em
And I was one and a half
Am
I was my parents only kid
Em C
And they had lost two before that
Bm Em C
And growing up, I always knew how close I'd come
D
Well, that must have been scary, Mom
[Verse 2]
G D
Gary Coleman, he was "Arnold" on TV
Am Em C
Well, I grew up watching him and Conrad Bain and Kimberly
G D
It turns out that he had a trach scar too
Am
Where they cut into his throat
C Am D
And then they threaded that tube through
[Chorus 2]
Bm Em
But that was much later on
Am Em C
In the year that he turned forty when his fanbase was all gone
Bm Em
And his health was so touch-and-go
C
His girlfriend proposed
D
But they broke up on a TV show
[Verse 3]
G D
Mary Wells, she was known as Motown's Queen
Am Em C
But laryngeal cancer left her unable to sing
G D
They tried radiation, multiple surgeries
Am C Am D
But she didn't have insurance and lost almost everything
Poor thing
[Chorus 3]
Bm Em
But Diana Ross helped with her bills
Am Em C
Aretha Franklin tried her very best to help out Mary Wells
Bm Em
And Dionne Warwick did all she could do
C
And Mary Wells, she pulled through
D
For one more year or two
[Verse 4]
G D
Dylan Thomas looked completely pale and weak
Am Em C
On a trip to New York City to promote his poety
G D
Three straight days of drinking out in Greenwich and Chelsea
Am C Am D
He was taken to the hospital, turned blue and not breathing
[Chorus 4]
Bm Em
And Caitlin Thomas said
Am
When she walked into St Vincent's
Em C
"Is the bloody man dead yet?"
Bm Em C
And later that day she got so drunk she was restrained
D
And her husband slipped away
[Verse 5]
G D
Ray Davies had a tracheotomy
Am Em C
He was at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, aged thirteen
G D
And during his long recovery
Am
Nurses put him in a wheelchair
C Am D
And they'd wheel him out onto a balcony (on a balcony)
[Chorus 5]
Bm Em
And down that evening sun did sink
Am Em C
Painting London and the river and that freaked-out future Kink
Bm Em
Waterloo lit up for one sick kid
C D
And, at 23, he recorded a song about it
[Outro}
G D Am C
Old Man Luedecke
Old Man Markley
Oldelaf
Oldelaf Et Monsi (...)
Oldporch
Olivia Newton Jo (...)
Olivia O'br (...)
Olivia Olson
Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Ruby