Love in philadelphia
Lyrics
i found love in Philadelphia just south of where the Market/Frankfurt runs we moved west of where of where Schuylkill flo-oh-oh-ohwhoah-oh-ohwhoah-ows where the trees they slant through Baltimore and the leaves they shade the 34 and under feet the dead they play all day-ay-ay-aaay-ay-ayeah-ay
Music
Chords
intro C, C/E, C/G, C/A C, C/E, C/G, C/A
verse1 Am, G, C Am, G, C Am, G, C, F, C, G7
verse2 Am, G, C Am, G, C Am, G, C, F, C, G7
outro C, C/E, C/G, C/A C, C/E, C/G, C/A
Structure
intro verse verse outro
Song Writer Notes
I came up with the first line on an airplane from Tampa to Philadelphia. The US Air magazine had a big spread on Philadelphia, and a few paragraphs on West Philly.
I'm considering a short chorus and third verse. I think I'll write it, but maybe not record it. I like it when a song has extra verses that no one plays. I think complete song would go
i found love in Philadelphia just south of where the Market/Frankfurt runs we moved west of where of where Schuylkill flo-oh-oh-ohwhoah-oh-ohwhoah-ows where the trees they sway on Baltimore and the leaves they shade the 34 under feet the dead they play all day-ay-ay-aaay-ay-ayeah-ay i found love. i found lo-o-ove oh we haunt the porches near Clark Park and we sing, but only after dark, we dream someday we'll own a plot of land where we can play all day i found love in Philadelphia
Conorl 13:00, 13 July 2008 (PDT)
Updated Conorl 07:04, 15 July 2008 (PDT)
comments
i adore this song, and one of my fondest memories of the wedding was when we were all tired and wasted and sweated up and sitting together playing each other songs, and you played this, complete with the third verse. that performance couldn't have been a more perfect invocation of this song for me.
it makes me think of our talk on the phone before the wedding, when you were saying that doesn't marriage isn't forever, exactly, it's until one of you dies. we laughed about how you kept trying to work death and that conception of how precious your time together is into the collaborative vow song, but DK wasn't as into that take, how you started from death, and worked your way back from there. but it's such a cheerful and touching picture of togetherness, how even after death, parts of you will still be rooted to your neighborhood and to each other.
on a less sentimental note, it's the melody that wins in this one. the leaps and lopes when extending the final words of each stanza are the signature successes in this tune, to my ears. the the walking low note in the fingerpicked part is killer, and its simplicity and repetitiveness ground the proceedings. the keyboard part and its treatment are also lovely and properly understated.
Oh! I like it a lot.
Gabemcelwain 13:31, 30 October 2008 (PDT)
