Danny Callahanv5

Danny Callahan

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

Tabbed by Sam Kurcab

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: D5, C5, D5, C5, Bb5

I've tabbed out a bit of the electric too but i'm not so sure about the accuracy of it.

think the little riff in the intro is something like:

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

C#m F# (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

C#m F# (at 2nd)

Ask how are you getting on, alone?

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

(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?