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 - Red
Standard Tuning
Tabbed by Chris Shelton
Chords:
C - X32010
C9- x32030
G - 320033
F - 133211
Am- X02210
Chords in parentheses are over really long drawn out vowels,
so instead of writing "baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar" and trying to
space out the chords over them, I just clumped them together
in parentheses. The rhythm shouldn't be hard to figure out for
these sections because it usually follows the same pattern as
similar parts of the song.
Intro:
C G F C
G
C G F C
G FG
C G F
Red is my favorite color
Am C G
Red like your mother's eyes after awhile
C G F
Of crying about how you don't love her
Am
She says, "I know I don't deserve
C
Supervised sight of her
G (F G Am FG)
But each day becomes a blur without my daughter"
C G F
Fall is my favorite season
Am C G
Like falling to reasoning why you crashed from on high
C G F
She says, "Why is my life so uneven
Am
And what have I done right
C
But given you your life
G (FG) Am F G
If after I let you on into that bar room... into that bar room?"
Interlude:
C C C9 C
C G F C
G
C G F C
G
C G F C
C G F C
C G F C
G FG
C G F
"Yes" is my favorite answer
Am C G
I took a dancer home, she felt so alone
C G F
We stayed up all night in the kitchen
Am C G
Doing my dishes, on and on until the dawn
C G Am
She said, "I know that it's easy to have me
F
But I have seen some things
G C G Am
That I cannot even tell to my family pictures
F G
And I'm full of fictions and fucking addictions
C
And I miss my mother"
Second Interlude*:
C C9 C C9
C C9 C C9
C C9 C C9
*The rhythm here is difficult to explain from the chords alone;
basically he switches between C and C9 for twelve measures. You
can hear it especially well from the left speaker.
C G F
She'll never know I could never forget her
Am C G
If I could write her a letter, I'd try with every line
C G F
To say, "She still remembers your touch
Am G
And I know that it's not much
C G F
I know that it's not much
Am G
I know that it's not much
C
But you still haven't lost her
(C G F C G G G G)
You still haven't lost her
(C G F C G G G G)
You still haven't lost her
(C G F C C G F C C G F C)
You still haven't lost her
G
Not yet"
Standard Tuning
Tabbed by Chris Shelton
Chords:
C - X32010
C9- x32030
G - 320033
F - 133211
Am- X02210
Chords in parentheses are over really long drawn out vowels,
so instead of writing "baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar" and trying to
space out the chords over them, I just clumped them together
in parentheses. The rhythm shouldn't be hard to figure out for
these sections because it usually follows the same pattern as
similar parts of the song.
Intro:
C G F C
G
C G F C
G FG
C G F
Red is my favorite color
Am C G
Red like your mother's eyes after awhile
C G F
Of crying about how you don't love her
Am
She says, "I know I don't deserve
C
Supervised sight of her
G (F G Am FG)
But each day becomes a blur without my daughter"
C G F
Fall is my favorite season
Am C G
Like falling to reasoning why you crashed from on high
C G F
She says, "Why is my life so uneven
Am
And what have I done right
C
But given you your life
G (FG) Am F G
If after I let you on into that bar room... into that bar room?"
Interlude:
C C C9 C
C G F C
G
C G F C
G
C G F C
C G F C
C G F C
G FG
C G F
"Yes" is my favorite answer
Am C G
I took a dancer home, she felt so alone
C G F
We stayed up all night in the kitchen
Am C G
Doing my dishes, on and on until the dawn
C G Am
She said, "I know that it's easy to have me
F
But I have seen some things
G C G Am
That I cannot even tell to my family pictures
F G
And I'm full of fictions and fucking addictions
C
And I miss my mother"
Second Interlude*:
C C9 C C9
C C9 C C9
C C9 C C9
*The rhythm here is difficult to explain from the chords alone;
basically he switches between C and C9 for twelve measures. You
can hear it especially well from the left speaker.
C G F
She'll never know I could never forget her
Am C G
If I could write her a letter, I'd try with every line
C G F
To say, "She still remembers your touch
Am G
And I know that it's not much
C G F
I know that it's not much
Am G
I know that it's not much
C
But you still haven't lost her
(C G F C G G G G)
You still haven't lost her
(C G F C G G G G)
You still haven't lost her
(C G F C C G F C C G F C)
You still haven't lost her
G
Not yet"
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