Name: Wailing Songbird
Duration: P00H04M37S
Description: Wrote this one in the winter of 2005-06 in Madison, WI when I was living with the Downtown Brown boys in the house on 902 Monroe. We used to play this one live, then it kind of fell out of my setlist over the years, I'm glad it's been resurrected.

Wailing Songbird

from High Hopes by Matt Hopper

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Wrote this one in the winter of 2005-06 in Madison, WI when I was living with the Downtown Brown boys in the house on 902 Monroe. We used to play this one live, then it kind of fell out of my setlist over the years, I'm glad it's been resurrected.

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Wailing Songbird

E I’m a songbird wailing in the C#m air (how you holding up x2)
I’m an E ashtray snubbed in your C#m affair (how you holding up x2)
I’d take the G#m pain for you but I will never really under C#m stand
What G#m gets you through the frozen void that slips right through your C#m hand

I’m a fever burnt between your lips (how you holding up x2)
I’m the nine months stuck between your hips (how you holding up x2)
I’d take the pain for you but I will never really understand
What gets you through the frozen void that slips right through your hand

C#maj7

B Help, I’m falling C#m down x 6

Tempo: 184 Key: E

credits

from High Hopes, released November 1, 2013
Hopper - guitar, bass, vocals
Jacks - piano
Glaves - drums
Hill - BGVs
Daste - pedal steel

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Matt Hopper & The Roman Candles Anchorage, Alaska

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JV

Apr 2023
Outskirts Of My Mind

Nov 2021
The Night Is Ours

Apr 2021
Grand Ole Hopry

Nov 2015
Husky

Dec 2013
High Hopes

Nov 2013
Jersey Finger

Dec 2011
Reverse Odyssey

Jan 2008
Gold Rush E.P.

Apr 2004
Keep Your Mouth Shut

Aug 2003
Bang! Bang! Bang!

Jan 2003

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