Biography:
Danny Michel is a singer-songwriter based just outside Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Born in 1970 and raised in Kitchener, Ontario , he began his professional career playing with the Rhinos before beginning a solo career. In the late 1990s, he moved to Ottawa, where he developed a loyal following with a weekly show at the Manx Pub on Elgin St. In his live shows, he often uses looped live samples of his guitar and other instruments to create a richly layered solo performance.
Read more on Last.fm
Other songs:
- A Cold Road
- Binary Star
- Born In The Wild
- Click Click
- Coalmine
- Feather Fur And Fin
- Good Old Days
- Love You For Miles
- Matadora
- Motorcade
- Newtons Apple
- Nobody Rules You
- Perfect
- Red Fox
- River On The Moon
- Sad And Beautiful World
- Tell Sally
- Tennessee Tobacco
- Toledo
- Whale Of A Tail
- When I Get Out
- Whos Gonna Miss You
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
This is a fun song to play, and has an interesting song structure. While most music sticks to the
four-line phrase, Danny Michel has mixed things up here and gone with five lines per phrase. It
may take some getting used to, but stick with it, because this is a fun song to play.
This song uses a bass strum pattern, with the full strums on the 2 and 4 beats of the bar
Just listen to the official music video here and play along:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ugkain3QUg
It's possible to use a capo to reduce the number of barre chords, but it eliminates
the transition chords you can play at the end of the second line
No Capo | Capo 2
________|_______
F# | E
A | G
B | A
C# | B
E | D
F | D#
D | C
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Intro]
F#m
[Verse 1]
F#m A
I went to the country to escape the noise and lights
Bm C#7 F#m E F F#m x2
And I lay there in the pine cones all night
F#m C#
I woke in the morning and all the trees were gone
D7 C# F#m
I got this sinking feeling...everything felt wrong
Bm C#7
There were strip malls and dollar stores and diesel in the air
[Verse 2]
F#m A
So I slept in a rowboat and I anchored far from shore
D F F#m E F F#m x2
Now I don't hear them chainsaws no more
F#m A
I woke in the morning when someone pulled the plug
Bm C# F#m
I was stranded in the lake-bottom sludge
Bm C#7
With all the tires, paint cans, and things
[Chorus]
F#m Bm A D
Well every little critter in feather fur and fin
A D F7
Cried to mother nature to come back for them
F#m D E F#m
For every piece of litter, for every little sin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
[Verse 3]
F#m A
So I went to an island down the Caribbean way
D F F#m E F F#m x2
And I laid there in the sand all day
F#m C#
I turned on a radio and I heard the DJ say,
D7 C# F#m
"Well batten down the hatches down Santa Elena way."
Bm C#7
I swam the ocean reef, but the coral all was grey
[Chorus]
F#m Bm A D
Every little critter in feather fur and fin
A D F7
Cried to mother nature to come back for them
F#m D E F#m
For every piece of litter, for every little sin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
[Bridge]
Bm E
She saw the eagle's eye, weeping in the willow
F#m Bm
She prayed to the mantis, and she cried into her pillow
E Bm7
For the salmon in the Fraser, and the salamander's kin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, yeah feather fur and fin
F#m Bm E F#m E F#m E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
[Saxophone Interlude]
[Verse 4]
F#m A
Well I went to the city when all the trees were gone
D F F#m E F F#m x2
And I laid there on an asphalt lawn
F#m C#
And she cried out a thousand days of hurricanes and floods
D7 C# F#m
Her face ran with tears, and the streets ran with blood
Bm C#7
Fur coats and sushi boats and diesel in the air
[Chorus]
F#m Bm A D
Every little critter with feather fur and fin
A D F7
Cried to mother nature to come back for them
F#m D E F#m
For every piece of litter, for every little sin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
[Outro]
F#m Bm E F#m
Feather fur and fin, she cried for all of them
F#m Bm E F#m E F
Feather fur and fin, she cried for every fin
F#m E F F#m
F#m E F F#m
four-line phrase, Danny Michel has mixed things up here and gone with five lines per phrase. It
may take some getting used to, but stick with it, because this is a fun song to play.
This song uses a bass strum pattern, with the full strums on the 2 and 4 beats of the bar
Just listen to the official music video here and play along:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ugkain3QUg
It's possible to use a capo to reduce the number of barre chords, but it eliminates
the transition chords you can play at the end of the second line
No Capo | Capo 2
________|_______
F# | E
A | G
B | A
C# | B
E | D
F | D#
D | C
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Intro]
F#m
[Verse 1]
F#m A
I went to the country to escape the noise and lights
Bm C#7 F#m E F F#m x2
And I lay there in the pine cones all night
F#m C#
I woke in the morning and all the trees were gone
D7 C# F#m
I got this sinking feeling...everything felt wrong
Bm C#7
There were strip malls and dollar stores and diesel in the air
[Verse 2]
F#m A
So I slept in a rowboat and I anchored far from shore
D F F#m E F F#m x2
Now I don't hear them chainsaws no more
F#m A
I woke in the morning when someone pulled the plug
Bm C# F#m
I was stranded in the lake-bottom sludge
Bm C#7
With all the tires, paint cans, and things
[Chorus]
F#m Bm A D
Well every little critter in feather fur and fin
A D F7
Cried to mother nature to come back for them
F#m D E F#m
For every piece of litter, for every little sin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
[Verse 3]
F#m A
So I went to an island down the Caribbean way
D F F#m E F F#m x2
And I laid there in the sand all day
F#m C#
I turned on a radio and I heard the DJ say,
D7 C# F#m
"Well batten down the hatches down Santa Elena way."
Bm C#7
I swam the ocean reef, but the coral all was grey
[Chorus]
F#m Bm A D
Every little critter in feather fur and fin
A D F7
Cried to mother nature to come back for them
F#m D E F#m
For every piece of litter, for every little sin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
[Bridge]
Bm E
She saw the eagle's eye, weeping in the willow
F#m Bm
She prayed to the mantis, and she cried into her pillow
E Bm7
For the salmon in the Fraser, and the salamander's kin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, yeah feather fur and fin
F#m Bm E F#m E F#m E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
[Saxophone Interlude]
[Verse 4]
F#m A
Well I went to the city when all the trees were gone
D F F#m E F F#m x2
And I laid there on an asphalt lawn
F#m C#
And she cried out a thousand days of hurricanes and floods
D7 C# F#m
Her face ran with tears, and the streets ran with blood
Bm C#7
Fur coats and sushi boats and diesel in the air
[Chorus]
F#m Bm A D
Every little critter with feather fur and fin
A D F7
Cried to mother nature to come back for them
F#m D E F#m
For every piece of litter, for every little sin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
F#m Bm E F#m
She cried for all of them, feather fur and fin
[Outro]
F#m Bm E F#m
Feather fur and fin, she cried for all of them
F#m Bm E F#m E F
Feather fur and fin, she cried for every fin
F#m E F F#m
F#m E F F#m
Danny Schmidt
Danny Shelton
Danny Vera
Danny Wilde
Danny Wilson