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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The President's Dead is a song that Okkervil River has performed live in concert, but
yet to record. It is pretty simple and the lyrics are amazing.
D A Em
The President’s dead, the radio said
G A
Dear friends is it not so horrible?
Em G
A shock to my heart like a knife right through bread,
A D
The newspaper said, the President’s dead.
D A Em
The sea doesn’t dry and the sky doesn’t split,
G A
But friends it just seems so wrong, don’t it?
Em G
A shout from the crowd and a shot to the head,
A D
The President’s lying on the tarmac dead.
D A Em
He’s lying face down with those black dress day gents,
G A
Guns drawn running around in the early o-bits,
Em G
Say he was a good man, you can’t argue with that,
A D
Not today you can’t, not now you can’t.
D A Em
In the media tent, where they spin and they slant,
G A
They just foam at the mouth and they chomp at the bit,
Em G
Those bloodsuckers can wait, ‘till those vultures cool it,
A D
The radio said, the President’s dead,
D A Em
And let’s imagine the day, let’s say 30 years in,
G A
How somebody will say what were you doing when,
Em G
On a beautiful day I was waking up and
A D
I was lying in bed with my girlfriend
D A Em
And the eggs on the plate and the bacon hissing
G A
And the coffee was great, these was spring on the wind,
Em G
If you ever lived through a day where the littlest things,
A D
in the littlest ways, made you feel you were blest.
D A Em
And if you died right then, well you know you’d be missed,
G A
But there’s no better way to cease to exist,
Em G
And you wouldn’t feel sad and you wouldn’t resist,
A D
Because you knew what you had and were thankful for it,
D A Em
In your own little way, well I’m a small quiet man,
G A
I’ve got no wars to win, I don’t have a big plan,
Em G
But I love my new place and I love my old friends,
A D
And I scrimp and I save and one day I’ll have kids,
D A Em
I can truthfully say that my day was like that,
G A
‘till the radio playing on the stand by the bed,
Em G
fired out this report and in three words they said,
A D A Em G
Like three shots to my head, the President’s dead.
D A Em G
The President’s dead.
D A Em G
The President’s dead.
D A Em G
D A Em G
That's it! This is my first tab, so I hope it works.
yet to record. It is pretty simple and the lyrics are amazing.
D A Em
The President’s dead, the radio said
G A
Dear friends is it not so horrible?
Em G
A shock to my heart like a knife right through bread,
A D
The newspaper said, the President’s dead.
D A Em
The sea doesn’t dry and the sky doesn’t split,
G A
But friends it just seems so wrong, don’t it?
Em G
A shout from the crowd and a shot to the head,
A D
The President’s lying on the tarmac dead.
D A Em
He’s lying face down with those black dress day gents,
G A
Guns drawn running around in the early o-bits,
Em G
Say he was a good man, you can’t argue with that,
A D
Not today you can’t, not now you can’t.
D A Em
In the media tent, where they spin and they slant,
G A
They just foam at the mouth and they chomp at the bit,
Em G
Those bloodsuckers can wait, ‘till those vultures cool it,
A D
The radio said, the President’s dead,
D A Em
And let’s imagine the day, let’s say 30 years in,
G A
How somebody will say what were you doing when,
Em G
On a beautiful day I was waking up and
A D
I was lying in bed with my girlfriend
D A Em
And the eggs on the plate and the bacon hissing
G A
And the coffee was great, these was spring on the wind,
Em G
If you ever lived through a day where the littlest things,
A D
in the littlest ways, made you feel you were blest.
D A Em
And if you died right then, well you know you’d be missed,
G A
But there’s no better way to cease to exist,
Em G
And you wouldn’t feel sad and you wouldn’t resist,
A D
Because you knew what you had and were thankful for it,
D A Em
In your own little way, well I’m a small quiet man,
G A
I’ve got no wars to win, I don’t have a big plan,
Em G
But I love my new place and I love my old friends,
A D
And I scrimp and I save and one day I’ll have kids,
D A Em
I can truthfully say that my day was like that,
G A
‘till the radio playing on the stand by the bed,
Em G
fired out this report and in three words they said,
A D A Em G
Like three shots to my head, the President’s dead.
D A Em G
The President’s dead.
D A Em G
The President’s dead.
D A Em G
D A Em G
That's it! This is my first tab, so I hope it works.
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