The Yearlings - Charlie Tears (lyrics on clip) video free download

Today it's ten years ago Utrecht, the second album of The Yearlings, was released. A fine reason to create a slideshow for another one of the tracks on Utrecht (2004): Charlie Tears. Enjoy, among other things, the fiddles and the ironic story :-)

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Written by Olaf Koeneman

The Yearlings are:

Herman Gaaff: bass

Leon Geuyen: drums

Niels Goudswaard: vocals, guitars, harmonica, tambourine

Olaf Koeneman: vocals, guitars, mandolin

Bertram Mourits: slide guitar, dobro, banjo, and organ on Fw: no. 5

Rene van Barneveld (Yearling at large): pedal steel

Utrecht is their second album

Produced by Niels Goudswaard and Olaf Koeneman,

recorded and mixed by Wilmer Wolf at Heartland Studio, Amsterdam.

Photo's of The Yearlings by, among others, Roel Jorna, 3voor12Utrecht, Anna van Kooij

CD's van THe Yearlings zijn te koop via: http://www.bol.com/nl

The Yearlings are an alt.country/americana group that came together in the unlikeliest of places: Utrecht, the Netherlands. They formed in September 1999, played all kind of stages and festivals, and recorded two albums: The Yearlings in 2002, and Utrecht in 2004. The Yearlings disbanded in 2006. Drummer Leon Geuyen now plays with The Gasoline Brothers.

Slideshow put together by Rapunzzl

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Lyrics:

Charlie Tears had a rock 'n roll band

But none of the guys he could really stand

For their gift to turn all his songs

into stupid sing-alongs

He found it hard and harder each day

To tune his guitar and keep it that way

Ten weeks and no sign of fame

He knew who was to blame

And he said:

Hey now, can anyone kill the pain?

Who's gonna stop the rain

When life is just a mess?

I make the sun shine upon you

With a colorful song or two

About a love that's gonna last

And here's a song, a cry-along

That won't ever leave your head

You'll believe that i must be

The saddest man you've ever met

Charlie wound up in the coffeehouse scene

Brightest people he had ever seen

But could they not hear Bukowski in

The words he had to sing?

Well honestly, the answer is no

Soon everybody was ready to go

Still audible through the noise

Was the lisping in his voice

And he said:

Hey now, can anyone kill the pain?

Who's gonna stop the rain

When life is just a mess?

I make the sun shine upon you

With a colorful song or two

About a love that's gonna last

And here's a song, a cry-along

That won't ever leave your head

You'll believe that i must be

The saddest man you've ever met