Biography:
Joanna Newsom (born Joanna Caroline Newsom on 18 January 1982 in California) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, and actress. Newsom was classically trained on the harp in her youth, and began her musical career as a keyboardist in 2002 in the San Francisco-based indie band The Pleased.
Newsom started taking piano lessons at a very early age and played for a couple of years, but switched to the harp at seven. Her approach to the harp
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Other songs:
- '81
- Bridges And Balloons
- Clam Crab Cockle Cowry
- Emily
- On A Good Day
- Peach, Plum, Pear
- 81
- A Pin Light Bent
- Anecdotes
- Autumn
- Baby Birch
- Book Of Right
- Ca The Yowes To The Nowes
- Cassiopeia
- Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie
- Cosmia
- Divers
- Does Not Suffice
- Easy
- En Gallop
- Esme
- Go Long
- Good Intentions Paving Company
- Goose Eggs
- Have One On Me
- In California
- Inflamatory Writ
- Inflammatory Writ
- Jackrabbits
- Kingfisher
- Leaving The City
- Look And Despair
- Make Hay
- Monkey Bear
- No Provenance
- Occident
- Only Skin
- Peach Plum Pear
- Ribbon Bows
- Sadie
- Sapokanikan
- Sawdust And Diamonds
- Soft As Chalk
- Sprout And The Bean
- Swansea
- The Divers Wife
- The Fray
- The Northstar Grassman And The Ravens
- The Things I Say
- This Side Of The Blue
- Time As A Symptom
- Waltz Of The 101St Lightborne
- What We Have Known
- You And Me Bess
- You Will Not Take My Heart Alive
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!
[Verse 1]
C D F
The cause is Ozymandian
C D F
The map of Sapokanikan
C G
Is sanded and bevelled
Bb F
The land lorn and levelled
Am D# Dm D#
By some unrecorded and powerful hand
[Verse 2]
C D F
Which plays along the monument
C D F
And drums upon a plastic bag
C G Bb F
The brave-men-and-women-so-dear-to-God-
Am D# Dm D#
And-famous-to-all-of-the-ages rag
[Chorus]
Bb Gm D# Bb
Sang: Do you love me?
Bb Gm D# Bb
Will you remember?
Bb Gm D# Bb
The snow falls above me
Bb Gm D# Bb
The renderer renders:
F D# Gm
The event is in the hand of God
[Verse 3]
C D F
Beneath a patch of grass, her
C D F
Bones the old Dutch master hid
C G
While elsewhere Tobias
Bb F
And the angel disguise
Am D# Dm D#
What the scholars surmise was a mother and kid
[Verse 4]
C D F
Interred with other daughters
C D F
In dirt in other potters' fields
C G
Above them, parades
Bb F
Mark the passing of days
Am D# Dm D#
Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel
[Chorus]
Bb Gm D# Bb
Where all of the twenty-thousand attending your footfall
Bb Gm D# Bb
And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls
Bb Gm
And the records they left are cryptic at best
D# Bb
Lost in obsolescence
Bb Gm
The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal
D# Bb
With any fluorescence
F D# Gm G#
Where the hand of the master begins and ends
Bb Gm D# Bb
I fell, I tried to do well but I won't be
Bb Gm D# Bb
Will you tell the one that I love to remember and hold me
Bb Gm D# Bb
I call and call for the doctor
Bb Gm D# Bb
But the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker
F D# Gm
And the event lives only in print
[Outro]
C#
He said:
Bb
"It's alright"
C
And "It's all over now"
Am Dm
And boarded the plane
Bb
His belt unfastened
C Am Dm
The boy was known to show unusual daring
Bb
And, called a "boy"
C Am Dm
This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall
Bb C Am Dm
In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceeded John’s fall
Bb
So we all raise a standard
C Am Dm
To which the wise and honest soul may repair
Bb
To which a hunter
C Am Dm
A hundred years from now, may look and despair
Bb
And see with wonder
C Am Dm
The tributes we have left to rust in the parks
Bb
Swearing that our hair stood on end
C Am Dm
To see John Purroy Mitchel depart
Bb C Am Dm
For the Western front where our work might count
Bb C Am Dm
O mercy! O God!
Bb C Am Dm
Go out, await the hunter to decipher the stone
Bb C Am Dm Bb C Am Dm Bb C Am Dm
And what lies under the city is gone
Bb C Am Dm
Look and despair
Bb C Am Dm
Look and despair
Bb C Am Dm (Fade out)
C D F
The cause is Ozymandian
C D F
The map of Sapokanikan
C G
Is sanded and bevelled
Bb F
The land lorn and levelled
Am D# Dm D#
By some unrecorded and powerful hand
[Verse 2]
C D F
Which plays along the monument
C D F
And drums upon a plastic bag
C G Bb F
The brave-men-and-women-so-dear-to-God-
Am D# Dm D#
And-famous-to-all-of-the-ages rag
[Chorus]
Bb Gm D# Bb
Sang: Do you love me?
Bb Gm D# Bb
Will you remember?
Bb Gm D# Bb
The snow falls above me
Bb Gm D# Bb
The renderer renders:
F D# Gm
The event is in the hand of God
[Verse 3]
C D F
Beneath a patch of grass, her
C D F
Bones the old Dutch master hid
C G
While elsewhere Tobias
Bb F
And the angel disguise
Am D# Dm D#
What the scholars surmise was a mother and kid
[Verse 4]
C D F
Interred with other daughters
C D F
In dirt in other potters' fields
C G
Above them, parades
Bb F
Mark the passing of days
Am D# Dm D#
Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel
[Chorus]
Bb Gm D# Bb
Where all of the twenty-thousand attending your footfall
Bb Gm D# Bb
And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls
Bb Gm
And the records they left are cryptic at best
D# Bb
Lost in obsolescence
Bb Gm
The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal
D# Bb
With any fluorescence
F D# Gm G#
Where the hand of the master begins and ends
Bb Gm D# Bb
I fell, I tried to do well but I won't be
Bb Gm D# Bb
Will you tell the one that I love to remember and hold me
Bb Gm D# Bb
I call and call for the doctor
Bb Gm D# Bb
But the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker
F D# Gm
And the event lives only in print
[Outro]
C#
He said:
Bb
"It's alright"
C
And "It's all over now"
Am Dm
And boarded the plane
Bb
His belt unfastened
C Am Dm
The boy was known to show unusual daring
Bb
And, called a "boy"
C Am Dm
This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall
Bb C Am Dm
In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceeded John’s fall
Bb
So we all raise a standard
C Am Dm
To which the wise and honest soul may repair
Bb
To which a hunter
C Am Dm
A hundred years from now, may look and despair
Bb
And see with wonder
C Am Dm
The tributes we have left to rust in the parks
Bb
Swearing that our hair stood on end
C Am Dm
To see John Purroy Mitchel depart
Bb C Am Dm
For the Western front where our work might count
Bb C Am Dm
O mercy! O God!
Bb C Am Dm
Go out, await the hunter to decipher the stone
Bb C Am Dm Bb C Am Dm Bb C Am Dm
And what lies under the city is gone
Bb C Am Dm
Look and despair
Bb C Am Dm
Look and despair
Bb C Am Dm (Fade out)
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