Biography:
Chapel Hill’s indie Americana quartet Mipso (formerly Mipso Trio) are influenced by the contradiction of their progressive home and the surrounding rural southern landscapes. Mipso currently ventures further than ever from their string-band pedigree to discover a broader Americana where classic folk-rock and modern alt-country sounds mingle easily with Appalachian tradition. Adding drums and electric instruments to their intimate four-part harmonies and powerful acoustic meld
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[Intro]
Em C G D - Cdim x2
[Verse]
Em C
I’ve never been so hungry
G D Cdim
Seems like twenty-two years I’ve been looking for a fight
Em C
Never stayed in school for long couldn’t keep my patience on
G D Cdim
Never had the motivation quite to get my timing right
PRE–CHORUS 1
C G
I want my story to begin / I want to celebrate my sins
D Em D
There’s a time to save up and a time to
C G
Spend I’m to young for the past tense
D Cdim Cdim Cdim D#dim F#dim
All this worrying about what might have been
[Chorus]
Em C
Should have been a preacher man let the good book show me where to
G D Cdim
Stand in this earthly half-way home
Em C
Should have been a farmin’ man teach my boy to plow the land
G D Cdim (Em C G D Cdim)
Leave this wicked winter just a couple acres greener when I go
Em C
I’ve never been so thirsty to get my soul right
G D Cdim
But like a summer bug I’ve been burned by the blinding light
Em C
Never stayed in church for long pop’lar peoples ‘n white folks songs
G D Cdim
Sunday morning never was as real as Friday Night
[PRE–CHORUS] 2 + CHORUS
[BREAK] OVER VERSE CHORDS
PRE–CHORUS 3 one strum each
C G
Some day they’ll write my name up on a
D Em D
Stone and I won’t be there to see it
C G D Cdim Cdim Cdim D#dim F#dim
Up on Calv’ry calling me I know they’ll say
CHORUS x second time a-capella
Miranda!
Miriam Rodr&iacu (...)
Miriel Wagner
Mirror's Ed (...)
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