Biography:
Mark Erelli (born 1975) is an American folk singer/songwriter from Reading, Massachusetts now living in Portland, Maine. His album, Hope & Other Casualties, is a collection of folk and Americana songs with stylistic arrangements, including "The Only Way", written in response to the September 11, 2001 attack and covered by Ellis Paul and Vance Gilbert.
On "Compass & Companion", Mark partnered with Kelly Willis for the title song.
He regularly tours in support of Kris Delmhorst
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Other songs:
- 23Rd Street
- A Bend In The River
- Abraham
- Aint No Time Of Year To Be Alone
- All Behind Me Now
- Almost Home
- Alright For Now
- Analog Hero
- August
- Baltimore
- Basement Days
- Before I Knew Your Name
- Billy Gray
- Birches
- Blue
- Brand New Baby
- Call You Home
- Close Your Eyes
- Coming Home
- Compass And Companion
- Defying Gravity
- Evenings Curtain
- Five Beer Moon
- Ghost
- Hartfordtown 1944
- Hemlock Grove
- Here And Now
- Hope Dies Last
- Ice Fishing
- Ichabod
- Imaginary Wars
- Innocent When You Dream
- Kingdom Come
- Little Sister
- Midnight Train
- My Best Was Just Not Good Enough For You
- My Darling
- Northern Star
- Only Wondering Where You Are
- Passing Through
- Pauline
- Pilgrim Highway
- Pretend
- Snowed In
- The Only Way
- Tired Eyes
- Tom Merritt
- Undone
- Volunteers
- Why Should I Cry
- Wyoming Wind
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*****DO NOT ADD STRUMMING PATTERNS TO MY TABS*****
Mark Erelli - Abraham
CAPO: 2nd Fret
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
F C
O Abraham
F G C
How far the mighty, we have fallen
F C
How I pray you hear me calling
Dm G
In the hour of despair
C
In the promised land
F G C
Where every promise has been broken
F C
And every vote feels like a token
Dm G C
For a ride that goes nowhere
[Chorus]
G
So rise up
C
Rise up
G
Rise up
[Verse 2]
C
O the words you spoke
F G C
Of a far more perfect union
F C
Reaching out to the disillusioned
Dm G
Still set our souls to sing
C
But what of hope
F G C
And we need it now more than ever
F C
And I keep listening for feathers
Dm G C
But I hear the flap of leathery wings
[Chorus]
G
So rise up
C
Rise up
F G C
We've more in common than divides us
F G C
But we need someone to guide us
G E7 Am
Through the sorrow and the shadows we have sown
F C
O Abraham
G C
Rise up from your marble throne
[Instrumental]
C C7 F C C7 F C C7 F C C7 F G
[Verse 3]
C
O Abraham
F G C
Gazing out over the fountain
F C
Sitting silent as a mountain
Dm G
Say it wasn't all in vain
C
Though I understand
F G C
Why another wise man won't come forward
F C
When all the others were rewarded
Dm G C
With a bullet in the brain
[Chorus]
G
So rise up
C
Rise up
G
Rise up
C
Rise up
Em
Rise up
F
Rise up
C
Rise
E Am
Rise up
G F G C
We've more in common than divides us
F G C
But we need someone to guide us
G E7 Am
For we've never felt so lost and so alone
F C
O Abraham
G C F
Rise up from your marble throne
C
O Abraham
G C
Rise up, rise up
[Outro]
C C7 F C C7 F C C7 F C F C
Mark Erelli - Abraham
CAPO: 2nd Fret
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
F C
O Abraham
F G C
How far the mighty, we have fallen
F C
How I pray you hear me calling
Dm G
In the hour of despair
C
In the promised land
F G C
Where every promise has been broken
F C
And every vote feels like a token
Dm G C
For a ride that goes nowhere
[Chorus]
G
So rise up
C
Rise up
G
Rise up
[Verse 2]
C
O the words you spoke
F G C
Of a far more perfect union
F C
Reaching out to the disillusioned
Dm G
Still set our souls to sing
C
But what of hope
F G C
And we need it now more than ever
F C
And I keep listening for feathers
Dm G C
But I hear the flap of leathery wings
[Chorus]
G
So rise up
C
Rise up
F G C
We've more in common than divides us
F G C
But we need someone to guide us
G E7 Am
Through the sorrow and the shadows we have sown
F C
O Abraham
G C
Rise up from your marble throne
[Instrumental]
C C7 F C C7 F C C7 F C C7 F G
[Verse 3]
C
O Abraham
F G C
Gazing out over the fountain
F C
Sitting silent as a mountain
Dm G
Say it wasn't all in vain
C
Though I understand
F G C
Why another wise man won't come forward
F C
When all the others were rewarded
Dm G C
With a bullet in the brain
[Chorus]
G
So rise up
C
Rise up
G
Rise up
C
Rise up
Em
Rise up
F
Rise up
C
Rise
E Am
Rise up
G F G C
We've more in common than divides us
F G C
But we need someone to guide us
G E7 Am
For we've never felt so lost and so alone
F C
O Abraham
G C F
Rise up from your marble throne
C
O Abraham
G C
Rise up, rise up
[Outro]
C C7 F C C7 F C C7 F C F C
Mark Free
Mark Fry
Mark Geary
Mark Germino
Mark Gillespie