What the hell is a Wrinkle Neck Mule? A sophomoric phallic reference? Too easy. A pack animal used in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico to transport opium to America in the early 1900s? History channel worthy, but wrong. A band of five (or four, depending on the wind) from Richmond, Virginia carrying indie-rockish country music about the land? Eureka. Daily double.
Born somewhere on I-64 between Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia in late 1999
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
Sixth song on the album. This song features a mandolin playing the main riff, but I have tabbed the riff for guitar. Like other songs on the album, this one has a little walk up riff that is often played right before going into a chord. In this instance it's played before playing the G chord in the verse and is played as follows:
E|--0-2-3--| Simple enough.
You can also walkup from Am to C in the chorus of the song by playing this:
The chords that are played overtop of the riff are as follows (each line represents one cycle of the riff):
AmG AmFGAm Am
Next play the walkup riff followed by these chords:
GFAm
VERSE:
AmGFGAm It's hard and uneasy, livin' in this skipped over town AmGFGAm Once was called a music city since has been scaled down
(MAIN RIFF 1x)
GFAm
VERSE 2:
AmGFGAm The oil that once was pavement, the mud that once was brick AmGFGAm Engulfs the gossamer river like hot wax on a wick
CHORUS:
CG What once was grey is now greyer, FE What once was cloudy is gone AmG The streets are all layered FGAm With discarded honky tonk songs FGAm Discarded honky tonk songs
(MAIN RIFF 3x)
GFAm
VERSE 3 LYRICS (Same chords as other VERSES):
AmG Everyone fears the color scarlet FGAm With a misguided prejudice AmG They all point their crooked little fingers FGAm At the high school reading list
(MAIN RIFF 1x)
GFAm
SOLO:
AmGFGAm AmGFGAm CGFE CGFGAm
(CHORUS)
(MAIN RIFF 3x)
GFAm
END
"See my mule don't like people laughin'. Gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it."
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