M. Ward: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The acclaimed guitarist (and masculine half of She & Him) performed seven songs in his Tiny Desk quarantine concert.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Bob Boylan here.
0:01.6	This concert's part of our tiny desk home concert series.
0:04.9	We started back in mid-March of 2020
0:07.3	when we couldn't record concerts at my desk at NPR due to the pandemic.
0:11.3	You can watch this concert at NPR.org or on the NPR music YouTube channel.
0:16.8	Enjoy.
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2:30.0	here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here,
3:00.0	Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, Bob Boylan here, doctor
3:30.0	I hope everyone's staying creative and we had to cancel our tour this time around, but
3:40.0	hopefully we'll see you all on the next run.
3:45.7	So yeah, I'm just going to be doing some songs that people requested on Instagram and all
3:52.6	those other media sites and eventually do some new music from a record that I just put
4:03.8	out called Migration Stories.
4:10.3	I'm going to do a song now from 2006 called Chinese Translation and it goes like this.
4:17.7	Well, I say otherwise, see I climbed up a tall mountain, I met an old man, he sat beneath
4:43.8	the sapling tree and he said, now if you've got some questions, go and lay them at my feet,
4:51.1	but my time here is brief, you're going to have to pick just three, so I said, what do
4:57.6	you do with the pieces of broken heart?
5:08.2	How can a man like me remain in the light?
5:17.5	And if a life is really as short as they say, why is the night so long and in the sun
5:28.7	it went down and he sang for me this song?
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