Biography:
Bill Callahan (born 1966), also known as Smog and (Smog), is an American singer-songwriter born in Silver Spring, Maryland. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, to which he remains signed today.
Callahan started out as a highly experimental artist, using substandard instruments and recording equipment.
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Please remove my previous version and replace it with this one.
Some chords were wrong (it's Am7 instead of Em[2] and
F instead of Dm[2]).
I have also corrected the part, where he sings
"My cattle bears it all away...".
Thanks, Maceo
_________________________________________
(song in 6/8 time)
Chords by Maceo: [email protected]
Capo 2nd fret
(all chords relative to capo)
(1x) = 1 half of a measure
(2x) = 2 halfs of a measure .
Em 022000
Am7 X02213
Am X02210
C X32010
C/B X22010
Dm XX0231
F XX3211
in the first part of the song he sometimes
plays hammer-ons with some of the chord-notes:
000000
Em 022000
X00000
Am X02210
(listen to the song for the rhythm)
__________________________________________
The real people went away
Em Am
But I'll find a better word, someday
Em
Leaving only me and my dreams
Am (5x) Am7 (3x) Em
My cattle....... and a resonator
I drove all the beast down right under your nose
The lumbering footloose power
Am (5x)
The bull and the rose
Am7 (3x) Em
Don't touch them don't try to hurt them
Am (5x) Am7 (3x) Em
My cattle....................ts ts
C Am C Am
I drove them by the crops and thought the crops were lost
C Am Em
I consoled myself with rudimentary thoughts
C Am C Am
And I set my watch against the city clock
Em
It was way off
||:
G C C/B Am C
Yeah one thing about this wild, wild country
G
It takes a strong, strong
C C/B Am C
It breaks a strong, strong mind :||
G C
And anything less, anything less
C/B Am C
Makes me feel like I'm wasting my time
Em Am Em Am
But the pain and frustration, is not mine
Em Am Em
It belongs to the cattle, through the valley
Dm (or D5 etc.)
And when my cattle turns on me
Am Em
I was knocked back flat
Dm Am Em
I was knocked out cold for one clack of the train track
Dm Am Em
Then I rose a colossal hand buried, buried in sand
Am Em
I rose like a drover
Am Em
For I am in the end a drover
Am Em
A drover by trade
Am Em
When my cattle turns on me
Am Em Am (4x) Am7 (4x)
I am a drover, double fold
Am7
My cattle bears it all away for me and everyone
one, one, one,
F
one, one, one, one,
Am7
one, one, one, one,
F Am F
one, one, one, one. Yo!
(as above)
G C C/B Am C
Yeah one thing about this wild, wild country
G
It takes a strong, strong
C C/B Am C
It breaks a strong, strong mind
G C
And anything less, anything less
C/B Am C Em
Makes me feel like I'm wasting my time
END
Some chords were wrong (it's Am7 instead of Em[2] and
F instead of Dm[2]).
I have also corrected the part, where he sings
"My cattle bears it all away...".
Thanks, Maceo
_________________________________________
(song in 6/8 time)
Chords by Maceo: [email protected]
Capo 2nd fret
(all chords relative to capo)
(1x) = 1 half of a measure
(2x) = 2 halfs of a measure .
Em 022000
Am7 X02213
Am X02210
C X32010
C/B X22010
Dm XX0231
F XX3211
in the first part of the song he sometimes
plays hammer-ons with some of the chord-notes:
000000
Em 022000
X00000
Am X02210
(listen to the song for the rhythm)
__________________________________________
The real people went away
Em Am
But I'll find a better word, someday
Em
Leaving only me and my dreams
Am (5x) Am7 (3x) Em
My cattle....... and a resonator
I drove all the beast down right under your nose
The lumbering footloose power
Am (5x)
The bull and the rose
Am7 (3x) Em
Don't touch them don't try to hurt them
Am (5x) Am7 (3x) Em
My cattle....................ts ts
C Am C Am
I drove them by the crops and thought the crops were lost
C Am Em
I consoled myself with rudimentary thoughts
C Am C Am
And I set my watch against the city clock
Em
It was way off
||:
G C C/B Am C
Yeah one thing about this wild, wild country
G
It takes a strong, strong
C C/B Am C
It breaks a strong, strong mind :||
G C
And anything less, anything less
C/B Am C
Makes me feel like I'm wasting my time
Em Am Em Am
But the pain and frustration, is not mine
Em Am Em
It belongs to the cattle, through the valley
Dm (or D5 etc.)
And when my cattle turns on me
Am Em
I was knocked back flat
Dm Am Em
I was knocked out cold for one clack of the train track
Dm Am Em
Then I rose a colossal hand buried, buried in sand
Am Em
I rose like a drover
Am Em
For I am in the end a drover
Am Em
A drover by trade
Am Em
When my cattle turns on me
Am Em Am (4x) Am7 (4x)
I am a drover, double fold
Am7
My cattle bears it all away for me and everyone
one, one, one,
F
one, one, one, one,
Am7
one, one, one, one,
F Am F
one, one, one, one. Yo!
(as above)
G C C/B Am C
Yeah one thing about this wild, wild country
G
It takes a strong, strong
C C/B Am C
It breaks a strong, strong mind
G C
And anything less, anything less
C/B Am C Em
Makes me feel like I'm wasting my time
END
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