Biography:
American singer-songwriter Dar Williams lives at the intersection of pop and folk. She fuses many genres (blues, rock, jazz), resulting in a rather organic sound. She has been making music for over a decade.
Her studio album My Better Self finds Dar at an unequivocally brazen crossroads. Reflecting on American politics, the disillusionment and apathy of youth, and the female experience, Dar makes no apology for her outspoken beliefs.
Her 2008 album, entitled Promised Land.
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Other songs:
- The Christians And The Pagans
- You're Aging Well
- After All
- Another Mystery
- Are You Out There
- Arrival
- As Cool As I Am
- Blue Light Of The Flame
- Book Of Love
- Bought And Sold
- Buzzer
- Closer To Me
- Crystal Creek
- Echoes
- Empire
- Family
- Farewell To The Old Me
- February
- Fishing In The Morning
- Flinty Kind Of Woman
- Here Tonight
- Holly Tree
- I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything
- I Had No Right
- I Have Been Around The World
- I Have Lost My Dreams
- I Saw A Bird Fly Away
- If I Wrote You
- Iowa
- It Happens Every Day
- Its Alright
- Mercy Of The Fallen
- Miss You Till I Meet You
- Party Generation
- Playing To The Firmament
- So Close To My Heart
- Southern California Wants To Be Western New York
- Spring Street
- Summer Child
- Summerday
- Teen For God
- The Babysitters Here
- The Beauty Of The Rain
- The Blessings
- The Business Of Things
- The Easy Way
- The Light And The Sea
- The Mercy Of The Fallen
- The Ocean
- The One Who Knows
- The Pointless Yet Poignant Crisis Of A Co
- The Tide Falls Away
- The Worlds Not Falling Apart
- This Earth
- Traveling Again Traveling I
- What Do You Hear In These Sounds
- What Do You Love More Than Love
- When I Was A Boy
- Your Fire Your Soul
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This was pretty much the first song I ever learned, its pretty simple.
I wrote out how to play the first verse, pre-chorus and chorus,
and from there the chords are pretty much the same for the whole song.
Have fun!
[CAPO 3]
G D Em
I’ve never had a way with women,
C G D G
but the hills of Iowa make me wish that I could,
G D Em
And I’ve never found a way to say I love you,
C G D G
but if the chance came by, oh I, I would,
Em C G
But way back where I come from, we never mean to bother,
Am D
We don’t like to make our passions other peoples concern,
G D Em
And we walk in the world of safe people,
C G D G
and at night we walk into our houses and burn.
G D Em
Iowa oh ooo
C G D G
oh, iowa oh ooooh ooo oh i-iowa
How I long to fall just a little bit,
to dance out of the lines and stray from the light,
But I fear that to fall in love with you
is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
So I asked a friend about it, on a bad day,
her husband had just left her,
She sat down on the chair he left behind, she said,
"what is love, where did it get me?
whoever thought of love is no friend of mine."
Iowa oh ooo oh, iowa oh ooooh ooo oh i-iowa
Once I had everything, I gave it up
for the shoulder of your driveway and the words I’ve never felt.
And so for you, I came this far across the tracks,
ten miles above the limit, and with no seatbelt, and I’d do it again,
For tonight I went running through the screen doors of discretion,
For I woke up from a nightmare that I could not stand to see,
You were a-wandering out on the hills of iowa and you were not thinking of me.
Iowa oh ooo oh, iowa oh ooooh ooo oh i-iowa
Iowa oh ooo oh, iowa oh ooooh ooo oh i-iowa
I wrote out how to play the first verse, pre-chorus and chorus,
and from there the chords are pretty much the same for the whole song.
Have fun!
[CAPO 3]
G D Em
I’ve never had a way with women,
C G D G
but the hills of Iowa make me wish that I could,
G D Em
And I’ve never found a way to say I love you,
C G D G
but if the chance came by, oh I, I would,
Em C G
But way back where I come from, we never mean to bother,
Am D
We don’t like to make our passions other peoples concern,
G D Em
And we walk in the world of safe people,
C G D G
and at night we walk into our houses and burn.
G D Em
Iowa oh ooo
C G D G
oh, iowa oh ooooh ooo oh i-iowa
How I long to fall just a little bit,
to dance out of the lines and stray from the light,
But I fear that to fall in love with you
is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
So I asked a friend about it, on a bad day,
her husband had just left her,
She sat down on the chair he left behind, she said,
"what is love, where did it get me?
whoever thought of love is no friend of mine."
Iowa oh ooo oh, iowa oh ooooh ooo oh i-iowa
Once I had everything, I gave it up
for the shoulder of your driveway and the words I’ve never felt.
And so for you, I came this far across the tracks,
ten miles above the limit, and with no seatbelt, and I’d do it again,
For tonight I went running through the screen doors of discretion,
For I woke up from a nightmare that I could not stand to see,
You were a-wandering out on the hills of iowa and you were not thinking of me.
Iowa oh ooo oh, iowa oh ooooh ooo oh i-iowa
Iowa oh ooo oh, iowa oh ooooh ooo oh i-iowa
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