Biography:
Okkervil River is an indie/folk rock band from Austin, Texas USA. Formed in 1998, the band takes its name from a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya. The band currently consists of Will Sheff (vocals, guitar), Will Graefe (guitar), Sarah K. Pedinotti (keyboards), Benjamin Lazar Davis (bass) and Cully Symington (drums).
The band self-released their first album, Stars Too Small to Use, which led them to the South by Southwest music festival.
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Other songs:
- A Favor (guitar Solo)
- A Stone
- Lost Coastlines
- Maine Island Lovers
- Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe
- Plus Ones
- Song Of Our So-called Friend
- Westfall
- A Girl In Port
- A Glow
- A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene
- A King And A Queen
- All The Time Everyday
- Another Radio Song
- Auntie Alice
- Black
- Black Nemo
- Black Sheep Boy
- Blanket And Crib
- Blue Tulip
- Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel 1979
- Calling And Not Calling My Ex
- Comes Indiana Through The Smoke
- Dead Faces
- Do What You Gotta Do
- Dont Move Back To La
- Down Down The Deep River
- Famous Tracheotomies
- For Real
- For The Enemy
- From A Cutlass Cruiser
- Get Big
- Hanging From A Hit
- Happy Hearts
- It Ends With A Fall
- It Was My Season
- John Allyn Smith Sails
- Kansas City
- Lady Liberty
- Lay Of The Last Survivor
- Lido Pier Suicide Car
- Lines
- Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
- Love To A Monster
- Mary On A Wave
- No Hidden Track
- No Key No Plan
- Oh Precious
- Okkervil River Rip
- Okkervil River Song
- On A Balcony
- On Tour With Zykos
- Pink Slips
- Piratess
- Pop Lie
- Presidents Dead
- Red
- Rider
- Seas Too Far To Reach
- She Would Look For Me
- Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear
- Singer Songwriter
- So Come Back I Am Waiting
- Song About A Star
- Song Of Our So
- Starry Stairs
- The Industry
- The Latest Toughs
- The Next Four Months
- The Rise
- The Valley
- The War Criminal Rises And Speaks
- Title Track
- Unless Its Kicks
- Wake And Be Fine
- We Need A Myth
- Where The Spirit Left Us
- White
- White Shadow Waltz
- Yellow
- You Cant Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
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Okkervil River
A King and a Queen
Tabbed by Jason Kientz
****** Capo 5 *********
Intro
C Em7add6 Am Am7/G F G F G
e|----0----0----------0----0-------1-----3-----1-----3-------------|
B|----1----1----------1----1-------1-----3-----1-----3-------------|
G|----0----0----------2----0-------2-----0-----2-----0------------o|
D|----2----0----------2----2-------3-----0-----3-----0------------o|
A|--3-3--2-2--------0-0----x-------3-----2-----3-----2-------------|
E|-----------------------3-3-------1-----3-----1-----3-------------|
(3) (2) (3)
(So for ease, I'm only going to write Em7 instead of Em7add6)
(Every time there is the C Em7 Am Am7/G progression, play
it like the intro)
C Em7 Am Am7/G
If you want to see, and be seen, then be seen
F G
Your dress is dark red and
C Em7 Am Am7/G
your opening eyes, bright green, make a scene,
F G
but dont lie on your bed,
F G
laid out like you're dead,
Am G
Because honey you're murdering me...
(musical interlude is intro twice, try to hit the root notes harder)
C Em7 Am Am7/G
Be a little sheep learning, who'll shear, and who'll feed,
F G
The hands come and they leave,
C H Am Am7/G
Be hands holding a knife, be a being, on two feet,
F G
With his heart tremble-in'
F G
butcherin' for a king,
Am G
He believes in though he's never seen... la da da da
(musical interlude)
F Em
Be the princess in that stone tower,
Am G Am
Crying for that handsome butchers plight,
G F G
And as some princess might she still calls him a knight
C Em7 Am Am7/G
but the best thing for you, would be queen, so be queen,
F G
you're all that I need,
C Em7 Am Am7/G
Though I know that it never can be, I'd be pleased,
F G
To post your decrees,
F G
to Fall at your knees,
Am F G
to name all you streets and to sit down and weep
Am F G
and you're carried back through them and set down to sleep
Am F G
And to lie by you side for sublime centruies
Am G F G
till we crumble to dust, when were crushed by a single sun
(outro same as intro but softer)
C Em7 Am Am7/G
beam.
(repeat intro till you feel like stopping and then end it on a C)
A King and a Queen
Tabbed by Jason Kientz
****** Capo 5 *********
Intro
C Em7add6 Am Am7/G F G F G
e|----0----0----------0----0-------1-----3-----1-----3-------------|
B|----1----1----------1----1-------1-----3-----1-----3-------------|
G|----0----0----------2----0-------2-----0-----2-----0------------o|
D|----2----0----------2----2-------3-----0-----3-----0------------o|
A|--3-3--2-2--------0-0----x-------3-----2-----3-----2-------------|
E|-----------------------3-3-------1-----3-----1-----3-------------|
(3) (2) (3)
(So for ease, I'm only going to write Em7 instead of Em7add6)
(Every time there is the C Em7 Am Am7/G progression, play
it like the intro)
C Em7 Am Am7/G
If you want to see, and be seen, then be seen
F G
Your dress is dark red and
C Em7 Am Am7/G
your opening eyes, bright green, make a scene,
F G
but dont lie on your bed,
F G
laid out like you're dead,
Am G
Because honey you're murdering me...
(musical interlude is intro twice, try to hit the root notes harder)
C Em7 Am Am7/G
Be a little sheep learning, who'll shear, and who'll feed,
F G
The hands come and they leave,
C H Am Am7/G
Be hands holding a knife, be a being, on two feet,
F G
With his heart tremble-in'
F G
butcherin' for a king,
Am G
He believes in though he's never seen... la da da da
(musical interlude)
F Em
Be the princess in that stone tower,
Am G Am
Crying for that handsome butchers plight,
G F G
And as some princess might she still calls him a knight
C Em7 Am Am7/G
but the best thing for you, would be queen, so be queen,
F G
you're all that I need,
C Em7 Am Am7/G
Though I know that it never can be, I'd be pleased,
F G
To post your decrees,
F G
to Fall at your knees,
Am F G
to name all you streets and to sit down and weep
Am F G
and you're carried back through them and set down to sleep
Am F G
And to lie by you side for sublime centruies
Am G F G
till we crumble to dust, when were crushed by a single sun
(outro same as intro but softer)
C Em7 Am Am7/G
beam.
(repeat intro till you feel like stopping and then end it on a C)
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