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Tour sked

THE HONESTY ROOM

MORTAL CITY

END OF THE SUMMER

THE GREEN WORLD

OUT THERE LIVE

THE BEAUTY OF THE RAIN

MY BETTER SELF

PROMISED LAND

Guitar Tab/Chords
There are a number of places on the Web where avid, or beginner, guitar players can find chords or tab for Dar's songs. Most of them also have links and/or music for other musicians as well.

Play With Dar, the DarWilliams.net guitar tab/chord archive (It's been updated with songs from Promised Land - more to come).
Ron Greitzer's chord page has many Dar tunes. He also has Cry Cry Cry's chords and lyrics as well as a bunch of other artists. He's got great instructions at the start of many of the songs, too!
Ed's Folk Guitar Page has music for those interested in some of Dar's (and other musician's) more complicated music.
There's also a Dar Songbook available from Hal Leonard publishing. It has music, chords, tab and lyrics for 12 songs.

Lyrics
There are a number of places on the Internet where you can get just the lyrics (not tab/chord notation to get in the way) to Dar's songs. Here are a few of them. If you do a search for "dar williams lyrics" there's a lot more but many of them are sites with ads and all manner of junk.

Dar Williams Lyrics Index -- This page also includes lyrics from some of the songs on the first two tapes All My Heroes Are Dead and I Have No History.
Lyricsdownload.com -- included because the songs are listed in alphabetical order
This isn't a Dar song, but she sang it on the Out There Live tour and people wanted the lyrics, so here are the lyrics for Finlandia.

Download or watch Dar's music

Watch a live video of Dar singing It's Alright with a band which was recorded last in February 2009 at Paste Magazine.
Razor and Tie has offered up three live tracks (with some chat) from Dar's performance at The Ark in Ann Arbor, Mich. September 17, 2008. IT'S ALRIGHT. BUZZER. EASY WAY.
Here's the video for It's Alright from Promised Land

A number of fans' videos of songs from shows have been posted online at youtube.com.

I Had No Right at the Mod Club, Toronto, Ont., February 28, 2009
Josh Radin performing "You Got Growin' Up To Do" with special guest Dar Williams at Webster Hall in New York City on January 23, 2009. And another version
The Babysitter, Spring Street and Troubled Times from Webster Hall in NYC on January 23, 2009
Spring Street, After All and February from the Jan. 22, 2009 show at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston.
It's Alright from Jan 21, 2009 at the Water Street Music Hall, Rochester, NY
You are Everyone, The Babysitter's Here, Buzzer, and Beautiful Wreck (all with Shawn Mullins) at Eddie's Attic, Decatur, Georgia, November 1, 2008
When I Was a Boy, Christians and the Pagans, and The One Who Knows from One Longfellow Square in Portland, Me, October 1, 2008
Iowa at Holicong Middle School in Doylestown, PA on Friday, May 16, 2008.

3 videos from the show at The Fillmore at Irving Plaza in New York on Sept. 27, 2008. Mercy of the Fallen, Buzzer, Midnight Radio.
Buzzer, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 2008
When I Was a Boy, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 2008
Parts of Iowa, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 2008

The Easy Way - Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee, Sept. 14, 2007
Spring Street, February, If I wrote you, The One Who Knows, Comfortably Numb, Blue Light of the Flame, and After All - Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee, Sept. 14, 2007
Peace Train - with Gandalf Murphy and John Gorka - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 2007
Sullivan Lane - with Gandalf Murphy - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 2007
Iowa - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 2007
The Babysitter - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 2007
The Christians and the Pagans - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 2007
Alleluia - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 2007
The Ocean - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 2007
lights of Iowa - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 2007
When I was a boy - December 31, 2006
The Babysitter - date unkown
The Babysitter from the Avalon, March 18, 2006
Are you out there - from Festival for the Eno, July 2006
The Mercy of the Fallen - Ottawa Folk Festival, August 2006
Birmingham, U.K. 2006 Are You Out There, and The Babysitter
Record Archive in Rochester, NY. November 2005 - Echoes and Teen for God
Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee, Wi. October 30, 2005 - The Babysitter, The Beauty of the Rain and Mercy of the Fallen
Caroline Herring, Dar Williams & Jeffrey Foucalt Live In Arnhem, Netherlands, Oct. 12, 2006
Are you out there - Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, July 2003
Are you out there, from a PBS broadcast of Austin City Limits (I think), Jan 2001
Two videos (1 & 2) of Dar performing at the Naked City Coffeehouse in Allston, Ma in 1991.

The following concert videos were taken down from youtube.com at the beginning of Oct. 2006

The Christians and the Pagans from King of Prussia, Pa. June 27, 2006
As Cool as I Am from King of Prussia, Pa. June 27, 2006
We Learned the Sea from King of Prussia, Pa. June 27, 2006
Blue LIght of the Flame from King of Prussia, Pa. June 27, 2006
Southern California Wants to Be Western New York from King of Prussia, Pa. June 27, 2006
The One Who Knows from King of Prussia, Pa. June 27, 2006
Teen for God from King of Prussia, Pa. June 27, 2006

Click here to get the list of music videos made by fans to various Dar tunes.

You can hear the CD versions of The Easy Way and It's Alright on Dar's Facebook page.
You can listen to the whole version of Dar's cover of the Beatles song "You Won't See Me" from the Rubber Soul tribute album The Bird Has Flown.
Here's a full version of the single Echoes from the CD My Better Self. AOL also has a free MP3 download of Echoes.
Click here to download I Have No Right from The Green World. The song is about peace activists Berrigan brothers and has been added to this site as a tribute to Philip Berrigan who passed away in early December 2002.

From the prayer card at Philip Berrigan's funeral:

"Peacekeeping is not only a central characteristic of the gospel. Peacemaking is the greatest need of the world today. We are the daughters and sons of God, and that means we are called to be peacemakers, whether we like it or not. It's a responsibility of all of us to pursue peace for its own sake, for the sake of the future for our children."

Download As Cool As I Am from Out There Live.

Amazon.com has free download of a live version of Another Mystery that doesn't appear on the live CD - no longer available.

Watch the video for What Do You Hear in These Sounds.
Listen to Dar's recording of David Bowie's Starman. In 1998, hundreds of Dar's listeners voted online for a song they wanted Dar to record. This is it. This is a now an MP3 as the Liquid Audio version is no longer available and MP3s are more versatile anyway!
Here's a 30 second clip from Dar's performance on stage B at the Aug. 19, 1997 Lilith Fair show in Madison, Wisc.
Watch a 1997 concert from The Troubador. She's with the full band. It's 1 hour 15 minuts long and includes an appearance by Richard Shindell and the two singing Mary Magdalene - this program is no longer available at lalive.com. If anyone has a copy, please share.
Dancing on the Air, a site that belongs to NE Public Radio WAMC-FM. You can listen to a live show they had with Dar in January 2001. She performs: It Happens Every Day, Are You Out There, The Christians And The Pagans, February, an When I Was A Boy. There's no interview, just tunes.
Watch the video for As Cool As I Am.
There's a full length concert (almost 2 hours) and a 15-minute interview with Dar on Yahoo. It was recorded in the fall of 2000 at the Gypsy Tea Room in Dallas, Tx. Check out some screengrabs from the concert - this program is no longer available at Yahoo.
Rolling Stone webcast recorded at The Park West in Chicago on Mar. 10, 1997 - this concert is now available on darwilliams.net. It's in Real Audio format.

Last updated June 23, 2009
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