Biography:
Jay Farrar (born December 26, 1966 in Belleville, Illinois) is an American songwriter and musician currently based in St. Louis, Missouri. A veteran of two critically acclaimed music groups, Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, he began his solo music career in 2001. Beyond his established talents as a songwriter, he is a guitarist, harmonicist, and a vocalist.
His musical style ranges from sparse, unaccompanied folk music to full rock and roll band arrangements comparable to Neil Young or Dinosaur Jr.
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- Barstow
- Big Sur
- Breathe Our Iodine
- Cahokian
- California Zephyr
- Careless Reckless Love
- Clear Day Thunder
- Dead Promises
- Dent County
- Different Eyes
- Direction
- Hard Is The Fall
- Hoping Machine
- Low Life Kingdom
- No Rolling Back
- Outside The Door
- Rexs Blues
- San Francisco
- Sea Engines
- Voodoo Candle
- Williamine
- Worlds On Fire
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Gibbard plays the song as I've transcribed here- in G with no capo. Farrar plays it in
with the capo on the 5th fret. To play the Farrar part just pop the capo on the 5th
and transpose the chords to D. Fun for you and a friend!
Intro: Open strumming in G
G
Up the Hudson Valley across NY State
C
To Chicago then the plains
D
All so easy and dream like
C G
Crashing the salt flat day break
G
I hear "I'll take you home again Kathleen"
C
Said in fogwinds out there that blow
D
Across the rooftops of eerie old hangover
G
San Francisco
D
Now I'm transcontinental
Am
3000 miles from my home
C
I'm on the California Zephyr
G
Watching America roll by
Am
Now I'm transcontinental
D
3000 miles from my home
C
I'm on the California Zephyr
G
Watching America roll by
G
I've hit the end of the trail
C
Can't even drag my body I've been driven mad for three years
D
Too much fame keeps a body busy
C G
And a mind full of white port tears
G
Terrified by that sad song
C
Across rooftops mingled with the lachrymose cries
D
Of the Salvation Army meeting on the corner
G
Saying Satan is the cause of it all
D
Now I'm transcontinental
Am
3000 miles from my home
C
I'm on the California Zephyr
G
Watching America roll by
Am
Now I'm transcontinental
D
3000 miles from my home
C
I'm on the California Zephyr
G
Watching America roll by
Am D C G
Am D C G
Gibbard plays the song as I've transcribed here- in G with no capo. Farrar plays it in
with the capo on the 5th fret. To play the Farrar part just pop the capo on the 5th
and transpose the chords to D. Fun for you and a friend!
Intro: Open strumming in G
G
Up the Hudson Valley across NY State
C
To Chicago then the plains
D
All so easy and dream like
C G
Crashing the salt flat day break
G
I hear "I'll take you home again Kathleen"
C
Said in fogwinds out there that blow
D
Across the rooftops of eerie old hangover
G
San Francisco
D
Now I'm transcontinental
Am
3000 miles from my home
C
I'm on the California Zephyr
G
Watching America roll by
Am
Now I'm transcontinental
D
3000 miles from my home
C
I'm on the California Zephyr
G
Watching America roll by
G
I've hit the end of the trail
C
Can't even drag my body I've been driven mad for three years
D
Too much fame keeps a body busy
C G
And a mind full of white port tears
G
Terrified by that sad song
C
Across rooftops mingled with the lachrymose cries
D
Of the Salvation Army meeting on the corner
G
Saying Satan is the cause of it all
D
Now I'm transcontinental
Am
3000 miles from my home
C
I'm on the California Zephyr
G
Watching America roll by
Am
Now I'm transcontinental
D
3000 miles from my home
C
I'm on the California Zephyr
G
Watching America roll by
Am D C G
Am D C G
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