Chords for Rasputina - 1816, the Year Without a Summer (Live on Woodsongs)

is going to merge the acoustic sounds
that Woodsong's listeners [E] are used to hearing
with Nirvana and Marilyn Manson
and sort of [N] a background of gothic chamber rock
cello music that is just very,
I found it to be very, very exciting.
They're here, they're gonna do a song
from a CD called Oh, Perilous World.
It's a great song called 1816.
Please welcome Rasputina to the Woodsongs
Old Town Radio. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [F] In the spring [Ab] of _
[Cm] 1315,
_ [Eb] _ [F] there began an [Ab] era of [C] unpredictable weather.
_ [G] _ [Fm] It did not lift [Db] until [Dm] _ [C] 1851.
[Eb] You [F] remember 1816 [Eb] as a year [D] without a [C] summer.
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_ [D] _ _ [Cm] June 1816, [Eb] a sudden [F] _ [Abm] snowstorm [Ab] blankets [C] all the countryside.
[Gb] So [F] Mary Shelley had [D] to stay inside
the chair of [C] Frankenstein.
Oh, _ [F] 1816 [Eb] was the [D] year without [C] a summer.
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_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Under [Cm] these conditions,
somehow,
[C] give birth to protein,
[Fm] toys and undead,
[Eb] but _ [C] [B] we [D] go from 85 degrees to freezing,
[Cm] within hours.
Woo, [Dbm] we're [Fm] born to struggle,
we're the [Eb] people and we [G] start doing [C] our stuff.
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. _
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_ _ Woo, _ [Cm] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] [C] we're born to be weird,
for the very last age.
_ [Em] We need enough for [Cm] scarecrows to blame.
_ [G] Many people try to blame it all
on a vastly amazing conspiracy.
_ Benjamin Franklin and [Eb] his [D] experiments [C] with electricity.
_ We're also [F] at the [Bb] beginning of [C] tomorrow.
Woo, we're born to be weird.
Frankenstein, [Fm] New York, [Cm] we're here.
_ [B] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[C] I'm in school, I'm a rebel.
[Eb] [Fm] Years later, [Eb] looking back [C] at the past.
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ I'll give you my red collar
to take away your sickly pallor.
For you are so very color of the complexion.
Please beware the man's insane son,
an old detention.
[Gb] _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ [Cm] _ [B] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ [Ab] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Eb]
[D] He would die [C] this summer. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ From their CD, Old Perilous World, Rasputina.
And let's say hi to Melora Krieger.
She's playing first cello, doing the main vocals. _ _ _ _
Melora, we weren't being facetious or far-fetched
when we were bringing up Nirvana and Marilyn Manson.
I mean, this is part of your musical background.
I mean, actually, really.
Yes, it is.
That must have been a lot of fun for you
to be able to stretch from,
I guess you learned classical cello
when you were younger, right?
Yeah, when I was a child, I studied classical.
And so you're taking the cello
into these very avant-garde rock worlds.
I mean, why, how? _
I went to art school.
I think that's a fertile ground for music,
even though it's not a music school.
And I think everyone loves the cello
and they have a really strong emotional response
to the cello.
So I was asked to play in bands
and got the idea of, I made a rock band out of cellos
where people could actually hear them.
That would be something good.
I think the audience loves it.
_ _ Rasputina, _ _ _ _ tell me about the name.
Tell me the history of the name.
Well, Rasputin was the mad monk of Russia
during Tsar Nicholas's time.
And he was unkillable and he pretended to be a peasant
and manipulated the royal family.
And I thought if I feminized that, adding an A,
that it would imply that we had such great powers. _
I bet you're dangerous on a date.
[E] _ Well, the music is pretty fascinating.
I think to people just hearing it for the first time,
I mean, it is a genuinely kind of a new thing
that you're doing.
And I think it must've been a lot of imagination work
before you were actually able to put this trio together
to really formulate in your mind
how you wanted this to sound.
Two cellos and a drummer.
It took a long time for us to sound good.
It took years to figure out amplification
and to get the good skills of playing and singing.
Well, you've got good musicians.
Jonathan Tabista on drums,
Sarah Bowman playing [N] second cello.
_ _ _ _ And as we come back to you, Melora,
what I'd like to do is talk about your look.
Now to the radio audience, that'll seem a little bit odd,
but the look of Rasputin is as important
as the music in many ways.
So the [Abm] music, like you said,
your art school background brought a visual
to what you're doing.
We're gonna get to talk about that [N] too,
but let's_