Biography:
Damien Jurado (born 12 November 1972) is an American singer-songwriter in the indie-rock tradition of Seattle, Washington. His music is regarded as being heavily influenced by folk music. Over the years he has released albums on many labels; today his primary label is Secretly Canadian. He was once in the band, Coolidge, with Seattle's David Bazan.
Jurado's solo career began during the mid-1990s, releasing lo-fi folk based recordings on his own cassette-only label, Casa Recordings, beginning in 1995.
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Other songs:
- Cloudy Shoes
- Everything Trying
- Museum Of Light
- Rachel And Cali
- Sheets
- 1973
- Abilene
- Allocate
- Am Am
- Arkansas
- Beacon Hill
- Cindy Lee
- Coats Of Ice
- Curbside
- Dear Thomas Wolfe
- Desert
- Diamond Sea
- Dimes
- Florence
- Foolishly In Love
- Fuel
- Gillian Was A Horse
- Go First
- Halo Friendly
- I Am Still Here
- I Am The Mountain
- I Cant Get Over You
- I Will Still Be Dead
- Jericho Road
- Johnny Go Riding
- Josephine
- Kalama
- Kansas City
- King For A Day
- Kola
- Last Rights
- Letters Drawings
- Life Away From The Garden
- Lincoln
- Lion Tamer
- Lottery
- Lou Jean
- Maraqopa
- Marvin Kaplan
- Medication
- Metallic Cloud
- Mountains Still Asleep
- Museum Of Flight
- Night Out For The Downer
- Nothing Is In The News
- Ohio
- Omaha
- Over Rainbows And Rainier
- Paper Kite
- Percy Faith
- Planes To Crash
- Predictive Living
- Qachina
- Queen Anne
- Rachel Cali
- Random Fearless
- Reel To Reel
- Rehearsals For Departure
- Shannon Rhodes
- Silver Joy
- Silver Malcolm
- Simple Hello
- So On Nevada
- South
- Tether
- Texas To Ohio
- Thax Douglas 1
- The Falling Snow
- The Killer
- The Last Great Washington State
- This Time Next Year
- Throwing Your Voice
- Tonight I Will Retire Acoustic
- Tornado
- Trials
- Wallingford
- What Were The Chances
- Window
- Working Titles
- Wyoming Songbirds
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Artist: Damien Jurado
Album: Where Shall You Take Me?
Song: Abilene
Standard Tuning, Capo 6
G/C from 1st string to 6th: 0-1-0-0-2-3
On a couple of the Am's in this song, Damien strikes the fourth string on the second fret,
then plays the same string open, and then hits it again with his finger on the second fret.
Such is the case in the Intro, which is played like:
e----------0----0---------------------0-----0--------|
B----------1----1---------------------1-----1--------|
G----------2----2---------------------2-----2--------|
D---2------------------2---0---2---------------------|
A----------------------------------------------------|
E----------------------------------------------------|
Play the above 3 times for the Intro before walking up to C on the fifth string like: 0-2-3
C G/C Am
I fell in love with a girl of nineteen [2-0-2 on 4th as in Intro]
C G/C Am
A black-haired girl I called Abilene [Walk up to C on 5th]
C G/C Am
Young girl, where's your husband?
C G/C Am
Sadly, she replied, I do not have one
C G/C Am
Then it's you I'll marry with your parents' permission
[humming: Am - C - G/C - Am ]
C G/C Am
No fine sir, they will not let me marry
C
For I am a young girl
G/C Am
And you are a man without money
C G/C
Then I'll come by your window
Am
Tonight when they both will be sleeping
[humming: Am - C - G/C - Am ]
C G/C Am
Outside your window in a carriage I will be waiting
C G/C
They'll awake to find you gone
Am
Open their eyes and think they're dreaming
C G/C
And never did they think
Am
That their Abilene would leave them
[humming: Am - C - C/G - Am ]
C G/C Am
Now fine sir, where is it you shall take me?
C G/C
Is it in the mountains high
Am
Or is it the deep blue sea?
[humming: Am - C - G/C - Am ]
Album: Where Shall You Take Me?
Song: Abilene
Standard Tuning, Capo 6
G/C from 1st string to 6th: 0-1-0-0-2-3
On a couple of the Am's in this song, Damien strikes the fourth string on the second fret,
then plays the same string open, and then hits it again with his finger on the second fret.
Such is the case in the Intro, which is played like:
e----------0----0---------------------0-----0--------|
B----------1----1---------------------1-----1--------|
G----------2----2---------------------2-----2--------|
D---2------------------2---0---2---------------------|
A----------------------------------------------------|
E----------------------------------------------------|
Play the above 3 times for the Intro before walking up to C on the fifth string like: 0-2-3
C G/C Am
I fell in love with a girl of nineteen [2-0-2 on 4th as in Intro]
C G/C Am
A black-haired girl I called Abilene [Walk up to C on 5th]
C G/C Am
Young girl, where's your husband?
C G/C Am
Sadly, she replied, I do not have one
C G/C Am
Then it's you I'll marry with your parents' permission
[humming: Am - C - G/C - Am ]
C G/C Am
No fine sir, they will not let me marry
C
For I am a young girl
G/C Am
And you are a man without money
C G/C
Then I'll come by your window
Am
Tonight when they both will be sleeping
[humming: Am - C - G/C - Am ]
C G/C Am
Outside your window in a carriage I will be waiting
C G/C
They'll awake to find you gone
Am
Open their eyes and think they're dreaming
C G/C
And never did they think
Am
That their Abilene would leave them
[humming: Am - C - C/G - Am ]
C G/C Am
Now fine sir, where is it you shall take me?
C G/C
Is it in the mountains high
Am
Or is it the deep blue sea?
[humming: Am - C - G/C - Am ]
