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Danny Callahan Tab

by Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band


Danny Callahan
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band


Ok I saw another version of this song on this site and didn't like it as much as my own,
I decided to post what i think is the correct version. Can be played with a capo on 2nd
and the chords transposed down a whole step for ease of playing, but i think it sounds 
when played in all barre chords. I also play both E and F# at their highest frets
for the E and 9th for the F#.) Anyways great song, enjoy.

Intro: , , , , 

think the little riff in the intro is something like:

e--6-8---------------|
B-------4h6----------|
G-------------6------|
D-----------------7--|
A--------------------|
E--------------------|

 
Green world loves the chloroform

Front porch in the thunderstorm
                            
Controlled chaos, confused energy
 
Stop reading the weather charts
 
Stop counting the playing cards
                             
There's no system, there's no guarantee
                                  
That the love you feel you carry inside
         
Can be passed
                                   
But you try and all you do is just talk
        
To your past
                            (play this one at 2nd fret)
Ask how are you getting on, alone?

 
Some wander the wilderness
 
Some drink cosmopolitans
                                   
Some quote science, some glean astroplanes
 
I can't tell where the canvas stops
 
Homesick as an astronaut
                            
Keep drifting, still can't explain
                               
How the love we feel we carry inside
         
Can be passed
                                
See a brother in the gutter you reach
         
Out your hand
                            (at 2nd)
Ask how are you getting on, alone?

Solo: still working on this part i think it starts like:

e--4-4-8------------|
B---------5-------6-|
G------------6h8----|
D-------------------|
A-------------------|
E-------------------|

(End with intro)

 
What gauge measures miracles?
 
And whose heart beats electrical?
                                 
We feign sickness, with all modern joy
 
But even western medicine
 
It couldn't save Danny Callahan
                             
Bad bone marrow, a bald little boy
                                  
But the love he feels he carries inside
          
Can be passed
                                     
He lay still, his mother kissed him goodbye
         
Said "come back!"
                       
Where are you going to, alone?
                        
Where are you going, all alone?