Songbook

Danny Callahan

By Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band

Key of B

G#m Gdim  G#m Gdim  F#

B
Green world, lovely chloroform
C#m
Front porch in the thunderstorm
E                C#m           B
Controlled chaos, confused energy

B
Stop reading the weather charts
C#m
Stop counting the playing cards
E                 C#m               B
There's no system, there's no guarantees

         E                         F#          B
That the love you feel and carry inside can be passed
        E                             F#           G#m
But you try, I know you do, you still talk to your plants
                 C#m         F#
Ask "How are you getting on alone?"

B
Some wander the wilderness
C#m
Some drink cosmopolitans
E                 C#m                B
Some cull science, some glean astral planes

B
I can't tell where the canvas stops
C#m
Homesick as an astronaut
E                  C#m                B
Just keep drifting, but still can't explain

        E                       F#          B
How the love we feel we carry inside can be passed
      E                          F#             G#m
See a brother in the gutter, you reach out your hand
                 C#m         F#
Ask "How are you getting on alone?"

B  C#m  E C#m  B
B  C#m  E C#m  B
G#m Gdim  G#m Gdim  F#

B
What gauge measures miracles?
C#m
Whose heartbeat's electrical?
E                C#m              B
We feign sickness with our modern joy

B
But even Western medicine
C#m
It couldn't save Danny Callahan
E               C#m            B
Bad bone marrow, a bald little boy

        E                          F#          B
But the love he feels he carries inside can be passed
       E                                F#             G#m
He lay still, his mother kissed him goodbye, said come back
              C#m       F#
Where are you going to alone?
              C#m        F#
Where are you going all alone?

B  C#m  E C#m  B
G#m Gdim  G#m Gdim  F#

B