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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 11:01:07 -0400
From: Bill Filler
Subject: CRD: New Madrid by Uncle Tupelo
New Madrid
by Uncle Tupelo
from the album Anodyne
transcribed by Bill Filler
Intro: A Bm
Verse
A D A
All my daydreams are disasters
A D A
She's the one, I think I love
A F#m D
Rivers burn, men run backwards
A D
And for her, that's enough
A D A
They all come from New York City
A D A
They woke me up at dawn
A F#m D
She walked with me to the fountain
A D
She held onto my arm
Chorus
A
C'mon do what you did
D Bm
Roll me under New Madrid
D E
Shake my baby and please bring her back
A
His death won't even be still
D Bm
Carum's over the landfill
D E A
Buries us all in it's broken back
Verse (same chords as first verse)
There's a man conviction
And although he's getting old
Mr. Browning has a prediction
We've all been told
So come on back to New York City
Roll your trucks in at dawn
Walk with me to the fountain
And hold onto my arm
Chorus
last chorus ends like this
D - E - A - F# - D - E - A
there is a common walk up pattern used throughout (usually when
moving from the A to D). It goes 0-2-4 (on A string a-b-c#) to D
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Keith Average |
#1 by Keith Amaral at Jul 11, 1990 at 10:55 PM EST |
| Isn't there a fountain in downtown Belleville? I've always imagined Jeff, in high school, walking around downtown Belleville with some girl from out East who was in town for the summer on his arm. And then she leaves. And like the New Madrid earthquake, it seems shattering for a little while. And it kind of is. And it kind of isn't. It's getting your heart broken for the first (or second or third, but not the last) time. The death imagery, I suppose that's about the death of innocence, so to speak. For what it's worth, when the New Madrid fault DID move in the 1800s, the Mississippi River DID run backwards for a little while, thus the first couple lines. Great song. | |
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Ŧøn¥ Average |
#2 by Ŧøn¥ PiNeDa at Jun 30, 1991 at 11:30 PM EST |
| The New Madrid fault, south of St. Louis where Uncle Tupelo is from (Belleville Illinois across the river actually) is the location of one of the most powerful earthquakes to strike the U.S. in recorded history. Anyway an earthquake could do some of the things described here. Mr. Iben Browning predicted a massive earthquake would strke the fault in December 1990. | |
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Charley Rhythm Player |
#3 by Charley Hockin at Oct 2, 1991 at 7:16 PM EST |
| Would love to know what this song means...or even what the references are from. | |
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daint Rhythm Player |
#4 by daint at Sep 6, 2005 at 2:17 PM EST |
| There's an actual town of New Madrid in Missouri as well. I spent a great deal of time there as a child, and this song conjures up memories of all kinds of greatnesses from my past. That's why this song holds a paticular meaning for me far beyond the lyrical meaning. | |
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