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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Mark Erelli - Imaginary Wars
CAPO: 2nd fret
[Verse 1]
C F
Behind the house where I lived
C G
Back when I was a kid
C G
I played G.I. Joe beneath the tall pine trees
C F
I'd fight imaginary wars
C G
'Til my mom called from our back porch
C
And I'd come home covered in that pine pitch
G C
From my head down to my knees
[Verse 2]
C F
Too big to wrap my arms around
C G
Surely older than I could count
C G
Must have been there since the Mayflower crossed the sea
C F
They'd been through blizzards and hurricanes
C G
Summer droughts and freezing rain
C
Them pines would live forever
G C
At least that's how it seemed to me
[Chorus]
F C
Now what's become of the old pine woods
F G
It's all gone and there's a brand new neighbourhood
Am G F
All for a buck they cut down all those trees
C G C
They subdivided all of my fondest memories
[Verse 3]
C F
When those trucks came for my woods
C G
I did everything I could
C G
And it was war for real when school let out that June
C F
I ripped down flags and I pulled up stakes
C G
But what difference can one boy make
C
Those pines still fell like thunder
G C
On a summer afternoon
[Chorus]
F C
Now what's become of the old pine woods
F G
It's all gone and there's a brand new neighbourhood
Am G F
All for a buck they cut down all those trees
C G C
They subdivided all of my fondest memories
[Bridge]
Am Em
And I never became friends
F C
With the families that moved in
F G
They were different from us or so it seemed
Am Em
I grew up and moved away
F C
I just go home on holidays
F
But those tall and tangled pines
G
They're still falling in my dreams
[Verse 4]
C F
We all want the greenest lawn
C G
And a country club where we belong
C G
And an SUV to get us there in style
C F
But we don't keep track of what we've lost
C G
We can't calculate the cost
C
When there's no place left for a boy's
G C
Imagination to run wild
[Chorus]
F C
So what's become of the old pine woods
F G
It's all gone and it's gone for good
Am G F
All for a buck they cut down all those trees
C G C
They subdivided all of my fondest memories
CAPO: 2nd fret
[Verse 1]
C F
Behind the house where I lived
C G
Back when I was a kid
C G
I played G.I. Joe beneath the tall pine trees
C F
I'd fight imaginary wars
C G
'Til my mom called from our back porch
C
And I'd come home covered in that pine pitch
G C
From my head down to my knees
[Verse 2]
C F
Too big to wrap my arms around
C G
Surely older than I could count
C G
Must have been there since the Mayflower crossed the sea
C F
They'd been through blizzards and hurricanes
C G
Summer droughts and freezing rain
C
Them pines would live forever
G C
At least that's how it seemed to me
[Chorus]
F C
Now what's become of the old pine woods
F G
It's all gone and there's a brand new neighbourhood
Am G F
All for a buck they cut down all those trees
C G C
They subdivided all of my fondest memories
[Verse 3]
C F
When those trucks came for my woods
C G
I did everything I could
C G
And it was war for real when school let out that June
C F
I ripped down flags and I pulled up stakes
C G
But what difference can one boy make
C
Those pines still fell like thunder
G C
On a summer afternoon
[Chorus]
F C
Now what's become of the old pine woods
F G
It's all gone and there's a brand new neighbourhood
Am G F
All for a buck they cut down all those trees
C G C
They subdivided all of my fondest memories
[Bridge]
Am Em
And I never became friends
F C
With the families that moved in
F G
They were different from us or so it seemed
Am Em
I grew up and moved away
F C
I just go home on holidays
F
But those tall and tangled pines
G
They're still falling in my dreams
[Verse 4]
C F
We all want the greenest lawn
C G
And a country club where we belong
C G
And an SUV to get us there in style
C F
But we don't keep track of what we've lost
C G
We can't calculate the cost
C
When there's no place left for a boy's
G C
Imagination to run wild
[Chorus]
F C
So what's become of the old pine woods
F G
It's all gone and it's gone for good
Am G F
All for a buck they cut down all those trees
C G C
They subdivided all of my fondest memories
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