From: Amelia Keating-Isaksen
This song is quite amazing from Miss Mitchell, and not very hard. I use
improv picking when I play it.
Capo 3rd fret/All chords relative to capo
Chords:
G: 320033
Bm: 224432
C: x32010
D: xx0232
D*: xx2033
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/a/anais_mitchell/orion_crd.html ]
G Bm C D
You were dead when they found you on the floor of your apartment
G Bm C D D*
You were dead and your drumset stood there shining in the dark
C G D
Shining like stagelights, shining like your eyes
C D G
Shining like Orion in the night
G Bm C D
You were small-time back in Austin where the drummers are all poor
G Bm C D
You were rocking out this dark bar; there were bottles on the floor
D* C G D
And a couple lonely people, the bartender, and I
C D G
Remembered what it is to be alive
Chorus:
D* C
Hey Orion, he's a-falling
G D
Catch him if you can
D* C
Hey Orion, he's calling
G D G
Amen, amen, amen
Were you dreaming of the big-time when you fell down all alone?
Did you see a velvet curtain and a silver microphone?
Could you hear your own heart beating, did you feel it getting slow?
Did you hear your own heart playing rock and roll?
(Chorus)
(Instrumental)
G Bm C D
Grandpa sits in a hotel, Buddy Holly on a plane
G Bm C D
And you, in your apartment, with your drumset shining
D* C G D
Shining like stagelights, shining like your eyes
C D G
Shining like Orion in the night
(Chorus)
