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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Dar Williams - The Ocean
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: F Dm7 Dm G C
F Dm
When I went to your town on the wide open shore
G C F
Oh, I must confess, I was drawn, I was drawn to the ocean
C Dm
I thought it spoke to me, it said,
G Am F
"Look at us, we're not churches, not schools,
G Am F
Not skating ponds, swimming pools,
Dm
And we have lost people, haven't we though?"
G C
Oh, that's what the ocean can know of a body
F G
And that's when I came back to town
Em
This town is a song about you
F G Am F
You don't know how lucky you are
G Am F G
You don't know how much I adore you
Am F G Dm G C
You are the welcoming back from the ocean
Dm
I went back to the ocean today
G C F
With my books and my papers, I went to the rocks by the ocean
C Dm
But the weather changed quickly
G Am F
Oh, the ocean said, "What are you trying to find,
G Am F
I don't care, I'm not kind, I have bludgeoned your sailors,
Dm
I've spat out their keepsakes"
G C
Oh, it's ashes to ashes, but always the ocean
F G
But the ocean can't come to this town
Em
This town is a song about you
F G Am F
You don't know how lucky you are
G Am F G
You don't know how much I adore you
Am F G Dm G C
You are the welcoming back from the ocean
INTERLUDE: F G Am F Dm G C
La la lee la la, le la la le la la la (3x) la
F G
And the ones that can know you so well
Em
Are the ones that can swallow you whole
F G Am F
I have a good and I have an evil
G Am F G
I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing
Am F G Dm G C F
You are the welcoming back from the ocean
Am Dm
I didn't go back today
G C F
I wanted to show you that I was more land than water
Am Dm
I went to pick flowers
G Am F
I brought them to you, look at me, look at them
G Am F
With their salt up the stem, but you frowned
Dm
When I smiled and I tried to arrange them
G C
You said, "Let me tell you the song of this town"
F G
You said, "Everything closes at five.
Em
After that, well, you just got the bars."
F G Am F
"You don't know how precious you are
G Am F G
Walking around with your little shoes dangling
Am F G Dm
I am the one who lives with the ocean.
G
"It's where we came from, you know."
Em
"And sometimes I just want to go back.
F G Am F
After a day, we'll drink 'til we're drowning
G Am F G
Walk to the ocean, wade in with our work-boots
Am F G C
Wade in our work-boots, try to finish the job."
F G Am F
"You don't know how precious you are
G Am F G
I am the one who lives with the ocean
Am F Am
You don't know how, I am the one
F G Am Dm
You don't know how, I am the one"
INTERLUDE: (## repeat about 15x - fade to end ##)
F G Am
La la lee la la, le la la le la la la
Dar Williams - The Ocean
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: F Dm7 Dm G C
F Dm
When I went to your town on the wide open shore
G C F
Oh, I must confess, I was drawn, I was drawn to the ocean
C Dm
I thought it spoke to me, it said,
G Am F
"Look at us, we're not churches, not schools,
G Am F
Not skating ponds, swimming pools,
Dm
And we have lost people, haven't we though?"
G C
Oh, that's what the ocean can know of a body
F G
And that's when I came back to town
Em
This town is a song about you
F G Am F
You don't know how lucky you are
G Am F G
You don't know how much I adore you
Am F G Dm G C
You are the welcoming back from the ocean
Dm
I went back to the ocean today
G C F
With my books and my papers, I went to the rocks by the ocean
C Dm
But the weather changed quickly
G Am F
Oh, the ocean said, "What are you trying to find,
G Am F
I don't care, I'm not kind, I have bludgeoned your sailors,
Dm
I've spat out their keepsakes"
G C
Oh, it's ashes to ashes, but always the ocean
F G
But the ocean can't come to this town
Em
This town is a song about you
F G Am F
You don't know how lucky you are
G Am F G
You don't know how much I adore you
Am F G Dm G C
You are the welcoming back from the ocean
INTERLUDE: F G Am F Dm G C
La la lee la la, le la la le la la la (3x) la
F G
And the ones that can know you so well
Em
Are the ones that can swallow you whole
F G Am F
I have a good and I have an evil
G Am F G
I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing
Am F G Dm G C F
You are the welcoming back from the ocean
Am Dm
I didn't go back today
G C F
I wanted to show you that I was more land than water
Am Dm
I went to pick flowers
G Am F
I brought them to you, look at me, look at them
G Am F
With their salt up the stem, but you frowned
Dm
When I smiled and I tried to arrange them
G C
You said, "Let me tell you the song of this town"
F G
You said, "Everything closes at five.
Em
After that, well, you just got the bars."
F G Am F
"You don't know how precious you are
G Am F G
Walking around with your little shoes dangling
Am F G Dm
I am the one who lives with the ocean.
G
"It's where we came from, you know."
Em
"And sometimes I just want to go back.
F G Am F
After a day, we'll drink 'til we're drowning
G Am F G
Walk to the ocean, wade in with our work-boots
Am F G C
Wade in our work-boots, try to finish the job."
F G Am F
"You don't know how precious you are
G Am F G
I am the one who lives with the ocean
Am F Am
You don't know how, I am the one
F G Am Dm
You don't know how, I am the one"
INTERLUDE: (## repeat about 15x - fade to end ##)
F G Am
La la lee la la, le la la le la la la
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