Biografia:
Mark Erelli (born 1975) is an American folk singer/songwriter from Reading, Massachusetts now living in Portland, Maine. His album, Hope & Other Casualties, is a collection of folk and Americana songs with stylistic arrangements, including "The Only Way", written in response to the September 11, 2001 attack and covered by Ellis Paul and Vance Gilbert.
On "Compass & Companion", Mark partnered with Kelly Willis for the title song.
He regularly tours in support of Kris Delmhorst
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Outras músicas:
- 23Rd Street
- A Bend In The River
- Abraham
- Aint No Time Of Year To Be Alone
- All Behind Me Now
- Almost Home
- Alright For Now
- Analog Hero
- August
- Baltimore
- Basement Days
- Before I Knew Your Name
- Billy Gray
- Birches
- Blue
- Brand New Baby
- Call You Home
- Close Your Eyes
- Coming Home
- Compass And Companion
- Defying Gravity
- Evenings Curtain
- Five Beer Moon
- Ghost
- Hartfordtown 1944
- Hemlock Grove
- Here And Now
- Hope Dies Last
- Ice Fishing
- Ichabod
- Imaginary Wars
- Innocent When You Dream
- Kingdom Come
- Little Sister
- Midnight Train
- My Best Was Just Not Good Enough For You
- My Darling
- Northern Star
- Only Wondering Where You Are
- Passing Through
- Pauline
- Pilgrim Highway
- Pretend
- Snowed In
- The Only Way
- Tired Eyes
- Tom Merritt
- Undone
- Volunteers
- Why Should I Cry
- Wyoming Wind
Quatro anos de trabalho duro!Neste mês de maio fizemos quatro anos no ar. Continuamos trabalhando na divulgação deste maravilhoso instrumento, obrigado por participar da nossa história!
Mark Erelli - Volunteers
CAPO: 4th fret
[Intro]
Am F C G F
[Verse 1]
C F C
I played with army men as a boy in my backyard
G
I was eighteen when I joined the National Guard
F C
I cakewalked basic, and they paid for my degree
F G
All for filling up sandbags and clearing storm debris
[Verse 2]
Am F C
And I had just re-upped on the base in my hometown
G
When the whole deal changed on the day that the planes went down
Em F
Just a casual soldier, twelve weekends a year
C G C F Am G
I was Baghdad bound when they called up the volunteers
[Verse 3]
C F C
We’d seen more than enough to know war is hell
G
But we were thinking that we had it made once the capital fell
F C
So we partied in the palaces and waited to withdraw
F G
'Til things started going south both sides of the wall
[Verse 4]
Am F C
First the looting, the suicide bombers and the IED's
G
Then the prisons and the torture and all those pictures on TV
Em F
The kickbacks, the blackouts, the martyrs and the fear
C G C F Am G
And now everyone in Babylon blames the volunteers
[Verse 5]
C F C
There was a roadside bomb on a convoy late one night
G
I was fine, but this buddy of mine probably should have died
F C
So they radioed a medevac and I tried to keep him warm
F G
Now he’s back home learning how to feed himself with two new arms
[Verse 6]
Am F C
And all the others, they suffer from wounds that you can’t see
G
So they try to forget and go back home to their jobs and their families
Em F
Yeah we got paid, no one made us come over here
C G F
But it ain't close to an even trade for the volunteers
[Instrumental]
Am C G Am F C G F
[Verse 7]
C F C
Maybe we’ll all be judged by history and god
G
Maybe the best way to honour the departed is to finish the job
F C
But while they argue who is winning and whether we should go or stay
F G
Over here it’s a victory just to make it through another day
[Verse 8]
Am F C
And me I’m long past making any sense of the blood I've spilled
G
But it's hard to believe this is all part of any God’s will
Em F
And if you find I’ve fallen after all the smoke has cleared
C G Am
Let the record show I volunteered
C G Am
Let the record show I volunteered
[Outro]
F Am G Am F C G C
CAPO: 4th fret
[Intro]
Am F C G F
[Verse 1]
C F C
I played with army men as a boy in my backyard
G
I was eighteen when I joined the National Guard
F C
I cakewalked basic, and they paid for my degree
F G
All for filling up sandbags and clearing storm debris
[Verse 2]
Am F C
And I had just re-upped on the base in my hometown
G
When the whole deal changed on the day that the planes went down
Em F
Just a casual soldier, twelve weekends a year
C G C F Am G
I was Baghdad bound when they called up the volunteers
[Verse 3]
C F C
We’d seen more than enough to know war is hell
G
But we were thinking that we had it made once the capital fell
F C
So we partied in the palaces and waited to withdraw
F G
'Til things started going south both sides of the wall
[Verse 4]
Am F C
First the looting, the suicide bombers and the IED's
G
Then the prisons and the torture and all those pictures on TV
Em F
The kickbacks, the blackouts, the martyrs and the fear
C G C F Am G
And now everyone in Babylon blames the volunteers
[Verse 5]
C F C
There was a roadside bomb on a convoy late one night
G
I was fine, but this buddy of mine probably should have died
F C
So they radioed a medevac and I tried to keep him warm
F G
Now he’s back home learning how to feed himself with two new arms
[Verse 6]
Am F C
And all the others, they suffer from wounds that you can’t see
G
So they try to forget and go back home to their jobs and their families
Em F
Yeah we got paid, no one made us come over here
C G F
But it ain't close to an even trade for the volunteers
[Instrumental]
Am C G Am F C G F
[Verse 7]
C F C
Maybe we’ll all be judged by history and god
G
Maybe the best way to honour the departed is to finish the job
F C
But while they argue who is winning and whether we should go or stay
F G
Over here it’s a victory just to make it through another day
[Verse 8]
Am F C
And me I’m long past making any sense of the blood I've spilled
G
But it's hard to believe this is all part of any God’s will
Em F
And if you find I’ve fallen after all the smoke has cleared
C G Am
Let the record show I volunteered
C G Am
Let the record show I volunteered
[Outro]
F Am G Am F C G C
Mark Free
Mark Fry
Mark Geary
Mark Germino
Mark Gillespie