Mary Chapin Carpenter Chords and Lyrics
- A Keeper For Every Flame
- A Lot Like Me
- A Road Is Just A Road
- Come On Come On
- Down At The Twist & Shout
- Downtown Train
- Family Hands
- Girls With Guitars
- Going Out Tonight
- Goodbye Again
- Haley Came To Jackson
- He Thinks He'll Keep Her
- House Of Cards
- I Am A Town
- I Feel Lucky
- I Take My Chances
- I Want To Be Your Girlfriend
- It Dont Bring You
- John Doe No. 24
- Jubilee
- Just Because
- Middle Ground
- Never Had It So Good
- Not Too Much To Ask
- Other Streets, Other Towns
- Outside Looking In
- Passionate Kisses
- Quittin' Time
- Rhythm Of The Blues
- Shut Up And Kiss Me
- Slow Country Dance
- Something Of A Dreamer
- Stones In The Road
- Tender When I Want To Be
- The Bug
- The End Of My Pirate Days
- The Hard Way
- The Last Word
- The Moon And St. Christopher
- The More Things Change
- This Is Love
- This Shirt
- Too Tired
- Walking Through The Fire
- What You Didn't Say
- When She's Gone
- Why Walk When You Can Fly
- You Win Again
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A Keeper For Every Flame - Mary Chapin Carpenter
[Actually in A; capo 2.]
[Each chord is half of a measure.]
[Standard tuning.]
G G C G C C Em/G D/A
[intro]
G G C G C C D G
[intro]
G G C G C C Em D
She says it's been so long, she can't remember when
G G C G C C D G
The mention of his name didn't make her feel again
G G C G C C Em D
That everything is possible and every day a brand new start
G G C G C C D G
Yeah, love's something powerful when it finds a willing heart
Bm Bm C C
Sometimes it's a fire burning out of control
Em Em C C
Sometimes it's a candle burning long and low
G G C G
All these years she never let it go
C C D G
There's a keeper for every flame
G G C G C C Em D
[instrumental]
G G C G C C D G
[instrumental]
There is someone in his past that he hasn't gotten over yet
Each day's like the last, he just misses what he can't forget
It's just an empty space where something used to be
Now he guards the gate, but he's lost the key
So no one enters, but no one leaves
There's a keeper for every flame
Bm Bm C C Em Em C C
[instrumental]
G G C G C C D G
[instrumental]
Thought my heart had broken, but it was just a little bruised
I thought love had spoken, I guess I was just confused
Sometimes we were a fire burning out of control
Sometimes we were nothing but a candle glow
But it never died, baby, how I know
There's a keeper for every flame
G G C G C C Em D G G C G C C D G
[instrumental; repeat and fade]
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A Lot Like Me
[Actually in F; capo 5, I think. Each chord is one measure, except two
chords joined by a hyphen (e.g., "F - G") are one measure _total_.]
C C F F G G C G C C F F G G C G
[intro]
C C F F
He was a long tall stranger from way down south where he'd left his life behind
Dm G C G
He had a big old Gibson and a pickup truck and Shenandoah eyes
C Em F F
And I remember him sitting in that local bar where I earned my pay each night
Dm G F - G C G
Singing my songs to empty chairs and going home half tight
C C F F
So the nights rolled by like headlights shining on a lonesome strip of tar
Dm G C G
I kept his words of kindness close to me like a pick on my guitar; And we
C Em F F
Talked about the singers and the songs we loved and the songs we'd most forgot
Dm G F - G C
In that run-down bar they'd make last call and I'd never want to stop
F G
'Cause I was living on nothing but a young girl's dreams
C - Em F
With my cowboy boots and my old six-string
Dm G C - Em F
Hitching my wagon to a star, dreaming of leaving those local bars
C Em/B Am - G F
When I'd get him up at closing time for a couple of songs and a chance to shine
Dm G F - G
Like the star that he longed to be, he looked a helluva lot like me
C C F F G G C G
(me) [instrumental]
He'd played a lot of places where the only wages were food and beer for free
No fancy licks, but he had him a gift for the kind of songs he'd sing
But you do what you can to be a satisfied man, just to have your peace of mind
So he gave it all up for a government job where the paychecks come on time
So now he comes to the bar to hear me play guitar and to share a drink or two
And we sit swapping tales of where we've been and what we'd rather do
There's a wealth of danger when you're talking to strangers, and I meet them
all the time
But my heart knew better than my head when I looked into those eyes
'Cause I was living on nothing but a young girl's dreams with my cowboy boots
and my old six-string
Hitching my wagon to a star, dreaming of leaving those local bars
When I'd get him up at closing time for a couple of songs and a chance to shine
Like the star that he longed to be, he looked a hell of a lot like me
C C F F G G C G C Em F F Dm G F-G C
[violin solo] [harmonica solo]
Well, maybe I'll quit when I got me a kid and a place to call my own
But tonight there ain't nobody there waiting up for me at home
It's a hell of a way to live from day to day not knowing where you're bound
But the look in his eyes made me realize I was glad for the life I'd found
'Cause I was living on nothing but a young girl's dreams with my cowboy boots
and my old six-string
Hitching my wagon to a star, dreaming of leaving those local bars
When I'd get him up at closing time for a couple of songs and a chance to shine
Dm G F - G Am
Like the star that he longed to be, he looked a hell of a lot like me
Dm G F - G
Like the star that he'd always be, he looked a hell of a lot like me
C C F F G G C C.
(me) [instrumental]
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A Road Is Just A Road
[Actually in A; capo 2.]
[Each chord is half a measure.]
G G D D G G C C G G D D G G G G
[intro]
G G D D
He pulled out in a cloud of dust
G G C C
Laying rubber and spewing rust
Em Em D D
And on any road he'd take
C G/B Am D
He'd have his foot on the pedal and my heart on the brake(break)
G G D D
Underneath the smooth tar curves
G G C C
A road is only dust and dirt
Em Em D D
On a lonely interchange
C Am D D
The signs all look the same
G G D D C C D D
'Cause a road is just a road and a feeling's just a feeling
G G D D C C D D
No matter where you go, from Waterloo to Wichita
G G D D C C Em/B Em/B
A road is just a road that the one you love is leaving on
C C Em/B Em/B D D G G G G
And midnight's another dawn, 100 miles ago [these two G's are only
played the first time.]
His wheels spun out of sight of me
Believing that I'd set him free
But I'd heard the voice of the prisoner
Saying he couldn't get enough of her
You go by land, you go by air
You go by sea, hell I don't care
You can go any way you choose
Wearing out the soles of your traveling shoes
And a road is just a road and a feeling's just a feeling
No matter where you go, from Bangor, Maine to Bakersfield
A road is just a road that the one you love is leaving on
And midnight's another dawn, a hundred miles ago
[Guitar solo: same chords as chorus.]
F F C C
And every sleepless night I see him
G G C C C C
Screaming by the scenery
F F C C
Not noticing another mile
G G C C C C D D D D
That's rolled down between him and me
'Cause a road is just a road and a feeling's just a feeling
No matter where you go, from Saskatoon to San Antone
A road is just a road that the one you love is leaving on
And midnight's another dawn, a hundred miles ago
Yes, a road is just a road and a feeling's just a feeling
No matter where you go, from San Bernardino to Sault Ste. Marie
A road is just a road that the one you love is leaving on
And midnight's another dawn, a hundred miles ago
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Come On Come On
[I've written this tablature as if all six strings were played on every
chord, but that isn't really accurate. I only wrote out the tab to show
the rhythm and fingerings.]
[Every strum notated here is a downstroke with the thumb (no pick, no
fingernails). There are a few upstrokes in between the downstrokes, but
I haven't shown those.]
[Some possible names for the chords are at the end of the file. I didn't
put chord names about the tab because it would just be confusing. Oh,
and the lyrics aren't lined up with the rhythm...sorry.]
[Actually in Bb; capo 3.]
[Tuning: DADF#GD (yes, tune your B string down to G).]
D |0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
G |0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|2-----2-2-----2-|2-----2-2---2-2-|
F#|1-----1-1-----1-|1---1-1-1---1-1-|0-----0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
D |0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
A |2-----2-2-----2-|2---2-2-3---2-2-|0-----0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
D |0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
[intro]
D |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
G |0---0-0-0---0-0-|2-----2-2---2-2-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|2-----2-2---2-2-|
F#|1---1-1-1---1-1-|0-----0-0---0-0-|1---1-1-1---1-1-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
D |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
A |2---2-2-3---2-2-|0-----0-0---0-0-|2---2-2-3---2-2-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
D |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
Some people remember the first time, some can't forget the last
D |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
G |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
F#|6---6-6-6---6-6-|8---8-8-8---8-8-|3-----3-3---3-3-|3---3-3-3---3-3-|
D |7---7-7-7---7-7-|9---9-9-9---9-9-|0-----0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
A |7---7-7-7---7-7-|9---9-9-9---9-9-|5-----5-5---5-5-|5---5-5-5---5-5-|
D |7---7-7-7---7-7-|9---9-9-9---9-9-|4-----4-4---4-4-|4---4-4-4---4-4-|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
Some just select what they want to from the past
D |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
G |0---0-0-0---0-0-|2-----2-2---2-2-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|2-----2-2---2-2-|
F#|1---1-1-1---1-1-|0-----0-0---0-0-|1---1-1-1---1-1-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
D |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
A |2---2-2-3---2-2-|0-----0-0---0-0-|2---2-2-3---2-2-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
D |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
It's a song that you danced to in high school,
it's a moon you tried to bring down
D |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
G |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
F#|6---6-6-6---6-6-|8---8-8-8---8-8-|3-----3-3-----3-|3---3-3-1---0-0-|
D |7---7-7-7---7-7-|9---9-9-9---9-9-|0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
A |7---7-7-7---7-7-|9---9-9-9---9-9-|5-----5-5-----5-|5---5-5-2---2-2-|
D |7---7-7-7---7-7-|9---9-9-9---9-9-|4-----4-4-----4-|4---4-4-0---0-0-|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
On a four-in-the-morning drive through the streets of town
D |0---0-0-----0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-----0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
G |0---0-0-----0-0-|2---2-2-0---0-0-|0---0-0-----0-0-|2---2-2-0---0-0-|
F#|0---1-1-----1-1-|0---0-0-1---0-0-|0---1-1-----1-1-|0---0-0-1---0-0-|
D |0---0-0-----0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-----0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
A |3---3-3-----3-3-|0---0-0-2---2-2-|3---3-3-----3-3-|0---0-0-2---2-2-|
D |2---2-2-----2-2-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|2---2-2-----2-2-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
Come on come on, it's getting late now; Come on come on, take my hand
D |0---0-0-----0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-----0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
G |0---0-0-----0-0-|2---2-2-0---0-0-|0---0-0-----0-0-|2---2-2-0---0-0-|
F#|0---1-1-----1-1-|0---0-0-1---0-0-|0---1-1-----1-1-|0---0-0-1---0-0-|
D |0---0-0-----0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-----0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
A |3---3-3-----3-3-|0---0-0-2---2-2-|3---3-3-----3-3-|0---0-0-2---2-2-|
D |2---2-2-----2-2-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|2---2-2-----2-2-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
Come on come on, you just have to whisper; Come on come on, I will understand
D |0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
G |0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|2---2-2-2-----2-|2-----2-2---2-2-|
F#|1-----1-1-----1-|1---1-1-1---1-1-|0---0-0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
D |0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
A |2-----2-2-----2-|2---2-2-3---2-2-|0---0-0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
D |0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
[instrumental]
It's a photograph taken in Paris, at the end of the honeymoon
In 1948, late in the month of June
Your parents smile for the camera in sienna shades of light
Now you're older than they were then that summer night
Come on come on, it's getting late now; Come on come on, take my hand
Come on come on, you just have to whisper; Come on come on, I will understand
D |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
G |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
F#|1---1-1-1---1-1-|1-----1-1---1-1-|0-----0-0-----0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|
D |0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0---0-0-|2-----2-2-----2-|2-----2-2---2-2-|
A |3---3-3-3---3-3-|3-----3-3---3-3-|2-----2-2-----2-|2-----2-2---2-2-|
D |2---2-2-2---2-2-|2-----2-2---2-2-|2-----2-2-----2-|2-----2-2---2-2-|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
It's a need you never get used to, so fierce and so confused
D |0-----0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
G |0-----0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|2-----2-2-----2-|2---2-2-0---0-0-|
F#|1-----1-1---1-1-|1---1-1-1---1-1-|0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-1---0-0-|
D |0-----0-0---0-0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
A |3-----3-3---3-3-|3---3-3-3---3-3-|0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-2---2-2-|
D |2-----2-2---2-2-|2---2-2-2---2-2-|0-----0-0-----0-|0---0-0-0---0-0-|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
It's a loss you never get over the first time you lose
[instrumental solo: same chords as the chorus, except the last measure is 000020
throughout (no 020100-020000). See tablature below for the lead guitar part.]
And tonight I am thinking of someone, seventeen years ago
We rode in his daddy's car down the river [skip two measures]
(road) Come on come on, it's getting late now; Come on come on, take my hand
Come on come on, you just have to whisper; Come on come on, I will understand
Come on come on, it's getting late now; Come on come on, take my hand
Come on come on, you just have to whisper; Come on come on, I will understand
Come on come on
[instrumental ending: same chords as chorus, but end on G (020100). Again, tab
for the lead guitar part is at the end of the file.]
CHORDS:
020100 = G/D 030100 = C(9)/D 000020 = D
777600 = Am7(4) 999800 = Gmaj7/B 450300 = D(4)/F#
020000 = Gmaj7/D 230000 = C(9)addF#/E 230100 = C(9)/E
222000 = Em9 [yuck!]
LEAD GUITAR:
In the recorded version of this song, the piano kind of dominates the
guitar, especially in the solo. However, the version that I've transcribed
here is from a 1993 tape of "Austin City Limits", because John Jennings'
lead guitar part is more interesting on "ACL" than on the album. And since
I have both video and audio for this song, it's probably the first time
I'm 100% sure that I've got the fingerings right!
Jennings' guitar, like MCC's, has a capo on the third fret, but his is in
standard tuning. The chord names above the tab are rough guides, since
the real chords have horrible names.
The slashes are slides up (/) and down (\), and the equal signs (=) are
pull-offs. Obviously, the "02," "242," and "353" sequences are hammer-ons
and pull-offs. "Triplet" or "tri" denote triplets. In the beginning of
each phrase (the part that sounds like "come on come on," put some vibrato
on the 3rd fret of the B string. Arpeggiate the triple stops (places where
you play three strings at once).
Guitar solo:
E --------------------------------|
B ---3----3----3-----3-----3----3-|
lead-in: G ----------------0-----------0---|
D 0----2----4-----------0---------|
A triplet-triplet-triplet---------|
E --------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
C D G
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B --------3---3-----------0-------|--------------------------------|
G ----0-----------------0-----2---|------------0-2-242-0---------0-|
D 4-------------------0-----------|----------4-----tri---------0---|
A --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
C D G
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B --------3---3----\--1---0--(3)--|--------------------------------|
G ----0---------------0-------2---|----0-------0-----------------0-|
D 4-------------------2-------0---|--------4-------------------0---|
A --------------------------------|----------------------0-2=3-----|
E --------------------------------|--------------------3-----------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
C D G
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B --------3---3----\--1---0--(3)--|--------------------3-----------|
G ----0---------------0-------2---|------------0-2-420---------0---|
D 4-------------------2-------0---|----------4-----tri-----------0-|
A --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
C D G
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|----
B --------3---3----\--1-----0-----|--------------------------------|----
G ----0---------------0-----0-----|2-------------------------------|----
D 4-------------------2-----0-----|0-------------------------------<5>--
A --------------------------------|0----------------------------harmonic
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|----
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^
And tonight...
Ending:
E --------------------------------|
B --------------------------------|
lead-in: G ------------------------0---0=2-|
D ----------------------4---4-----|
A --------------------5-----------|
E --------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
C * D * G
E ----------------------------2/3-|353\2---------------------------|
B --3-3-3-/-8-8-8-------\---5-----|--------------1-1=3-0---------3-|
G 4-------------------------------|------------2---------------0---|
D ----------------------- * = slide left finger -------------0-----|
A --------------------------- but pick string ---------------------|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
C D G
E ----------0-0-------------------|--------------------------------|
B 3---1-1-------------------0-1---|--------------------------------|
G 0---0-0-----------------2-----2-|------------20--0-------------0-|
D 4---2-2-------------------------|4-------------4-------------0---|
A --------------------------------|------------tri---------2=3-----|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
C D G
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B --------3---3----\--1---0--(3)--|--------------------3-----------|
G ----0---------------0-------2---|------------0=2-420---------0---|
D(4)------------------2-------0---|----------4-----tri-----------0-|
A --------------------------------|--------5-----------------------|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
C D G
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B --------3---3----\--1---0--(3)--|--------------------------------|
G ----0---------------0-------2---|------------0---0---------------|
D 4-------------------2-------0---|------------0--(0)--------------|
A --------------------------------|------------2--(2)--------------|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
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Down At The Twist & Shout
[Actually in A; capo at the 2nd fret]
C C
Saturday night and the moon is out
G G
I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout
D D
Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat
G G
When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet
C C
Out in the middle of a big dance floor
G G
When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more
D D G G
Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight
D D
Well I never have wandered down to New Orleans
G G
Never have drifted down a bayou stream
D D
But I heard that music on the radio
G G
And I swore some day I was gonna go
Em Em
Down Highway 10 past Lafayette
A7 A7
To Baton Rouge and I won't forget
D D
To send you a card with my regrets
D7 G
'Cause I'm never gonna come back home
[You know the rest...]
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Downtown Train
[Each chord is half a measure.]
[Try using C(9) instead of C sometimes, and Dsus instead of D; I'm
not sure _exactly_ which chords are used.]
G G C D G G C D G G C D G G C D
[intro]
G G C D G G
Outside another yellow moon
C D
Has punched a hole in the nighttime
G G C D G G
I climb through the window and down to the street
C D
I'm shining like a new dime
C C D D
The downtown trains are full
C C D D
With all those Brooklyn girls
Em Em D/F# D/F#
They try so hard to break out of their little world
You wave your hand and they scatter like crows
They have nothing that will ever capture your heart
They're just thorns without the rose
Oh, be careful of them in the dark
And if I was the one
You chose to be your only one
Oh baby now, can't you hear me now
G G C C G G C C
Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
G G C C Am Am D D (G...)
Where every night is just the same; You leave me lonely now
(Now) I know your window and I know it's late
I know your stairs and your doorway
I walk down your street and past your gate
I stand by the light at the fourway
You watch them as they fall
Ooh, and they all have heart attacks
They stay at the carnival, but they'll never win you back
Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Where every night, every night is just the same; you leave me lonely
Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Where every night, every night is just the same, all upon a downtown
G D G D G D D D
train [instrumental]
G D G D G D D D D D
[instrumental]
Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Where every night, every night is just the same, you leave me lonely
Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
Where all my dreams just fall like the rain, all upon a downtown train
[Fade on G G C D...]
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Family Hands
[Recorded in F. Mary Chapin plays in dropped-D tuning (DADGBE) in the key
of D, with a capo on the 3rd fret. John Jennings plays the lead part in
C with a capo on the 5th fret (and standard tuning).]
[All the verses aren't _exactly_ the same, but they're close enough
that I only wrote tablature for the first verse.]
[I wasn't able to write tablature for the rhythm guitar during the lead
guitar solos, because the lead guitar gets in the way. But I _have_
written down the exact chord shapes she uses.]
RHYTHM GUITAR (Mary Chapin Carpenter):
D G/B D(9) G/B A7sus4
E 2---------------|----------------|----------0-----|----------------|
B ----------------|----------3-----|----3-----------|----------3-----|
G ----------2---2-|------0-------0-|--------------2-|------0-------0-|
D ----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------2---|
A --------0-------|0=2-----2-------|----------------|0=2-----0-------|
D 0---------------|----------------|0-------0-------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
[intro]
D(9) D(9)/F# G D/F# Em7
E ----------0-----|------0---------|----------------|------0---------|
B ----3-----------|--3-------3-----|0---------------|--0-------0-----|
G --------------2-|----------------|------0---2---0-|----------------|
D ----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D 0-------0-------|4-------4-------|5-------4-------|2-------2-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1. Last Sunday we got in the car and we drove
2. Your grandmother owned a gun in 1932
A7sus4 A7 Asus9 D G/B A7sus4
E ------0---------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B 3---------3-----|0=2-------0-----|3---------------|--3-------3-----|
G ----------------|------0-------2-|----------2---0-|------0-------0-|
D ----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----0-------0---|----0-------2---|
A 0-------0-------|0-------0-------|----------------|2-------0-------|
D ----------------|----------------|0-------0-------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1. To the town you were raised in, your boyhood home
2. When times were bad just everywhere, you said she used it too
D(9) D(9)/F# G5 D/F# Em7
E ----------0-----|------0---------|----------------|------0---------|
B ----------------|--3-------3-----|3---------------|--0-------0-----|
G ------2-------2-|--------------0-|------0---2---0-|--------------0-|
D ----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D 0-------0-------|4-------4-------|5-------4-------|2-------2-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1. The trees were just turning, up on the ridge
2. And the life and times of everyone are traced inside their palms
A7sus4 A7 Asus9 D(9) G/B A7sus4
E ------0---------|----------------|------0---------|----------------|
B 3---------3-----|2---------0-----|----------3-----|----------------|
G --------------0-|------0-------2-|--------------2-|------0-------0-|
D ----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----0-------0---|----0-------2---|
A 0-------0-------|0-------0-------|----------------|0=2-----0-------|
D ----------------|----------------|0-------0-------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1. And this was your valley when you were a kid
2. Her skin may be so weathered, but her grip is still so strong
D(9) D(9)/F# G D/F# Em7
E ----------0-----|------0---------|----------------|------0---------|
B ----3-----------|--3-------3-----|0---------------|--0-------0-----|
G --------------2-|--------------0-|------0---2---0-|----------------|
D ----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D 0-------0-------|4-------4-------|5-------4-------|2-------2-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1. You showed me the railroad that your daddy worked on
2. And I see your eyes belong to her and too your mama too
3. And a rich man you might never be, they'd love you just the same
A7sus4 A7sus4 Asus9 D(9) G/B A7sus4
E ------0---------|----------------|------0---------|3=2-------------|
B 3---------3-----|2=3-------0-----|3---------3-----|----------------|
G ----------------|------0-------2-|--------------0-|------0---0-----|
D ----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----0-------0---|----0-------2---|
A 0-------0-------|0-------0-------|----------------|2-------0-------|
D ----------------|----------------|0-------0-------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1. As we neared the old house where your granny lives on
2. A slice of Virginia sky, the clearest shade of blue
3. They've handed down so much to you besides your Christian name
D(9) D(9)/F# G5 D/F# Em7
E ----------0-----|------0---------|----------------|------0---------|
B ----3-----------|--3-------3-----|0---------------|--0-------0-----|
G --------------2-|----------------|------0---2---0-|--------------0-|
D ----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D 0-------0-------|4-------4-------|5-------4-------|2-------2-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1. She's nearing ninety years now, with her daughters by her side
2. [acoustic guitar solo]
3. And the spoken word won't heal you like the laying on of hands
A7sus4 A9 A7 Asus4 D(9) D D/C#
E ----------------|----------0-----|2-----3=2-----0-|----------------|
B 3---------0-----|0=2---3---------|----------3-----|--3-------3-----|
G ------0-------0-|--------------2-|----------------|------2-------0-|
D ----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
A 0-------0-------|0-------0-------|----------------|--------4-------|
D ----------------|----------------|0---------------|0---------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1. Who tend the places in the heart where loneliness can hide
2. [acoustic guitar solo]
3. Belonging to the ones who raised you to a man
Bm7 Asus9 G A7sus4 D(9) D(9)/C#
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|------0---------|
B ----3-----3-----|------0---------|----------3-----|----------3-----|
G ------2-------2-|----------2---0-|------0-------0-|--------------0-|
D ----4-------4---|----2-------2---|----0-------2---|----0-------0---|
A 2-------2-------|0-------0-------|--------0-------|--------4-------|
D ----------------|----------------|5---------------|0---------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1,2,3. Raised by the women who are stronger than you know
Bm7 Asus9 Em7 A Asus4
E ----------------|----------------|------0---------|----------0-----|
B ----3-----3-----|------0---------|----------0-----|2-----3---------|
G ------2-------2-|----------2---0-|--------------0-|--2-----------2-|
D ----4-------4---|----2-------2---|----0-------0---|----2-------2---|
A 2-------2-------|0-------0-------|----------------|0-------0-------|
D ----------------|----------------|2-------2-------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1,2,3. A patchwork quilt of memory only women could have sewn
D D(9) D(9)/C# D9/C G6/B
E 2-----0---------|------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|
B ----------3-----|--3-------3-----|----------3-----|--3-------3-----|
G --------------2-|--------------2-|--------------2-|--------------0-|
D ----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
A ----------------|4-------4-------|3-------3-------|2-------2-------|
D 0-------0-------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1,2,3. The threads were stitched by family hands, protected from the moth
Em7 D/F# G A7
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|
B 0---------------|0---------0-----|----------2-----|
G ------0---2---0-|------0-------0-|------0-------0-|
D ----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----2-------2---|
A ----------------|----------------|0-------0-------|
D 2-------4-------|5-------5-------|----------------| (3rd time to Coda)
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1,2,3. By your mother and her mother, the weavers of your cloth
D D(9)/C# G6/B A7 Asus4
E ----------2-----|0---------------|------0---------|----------0-----|
B ----------------|----------------|----------3-----|2-----3---------|
G ------2-------2-|----------2---0-|--------------0-|--0-----------2-|
D ----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----2-------2---|
A ----------------|4-------4-------|2-------2-------|0-------0-------|
D 0-------0-------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
1. [instrumental] (1st time: go back to beginning of verse.)
2. [first 4 bars of solo] (2nd time: continue with solo)
Lead guitar solo
| Gmaj7 | D | Em7 | A Asus9 |
| 5x403x | 0x023x | 2x0000 | x0222x x0220x |
| G/B A/C# | D | G A7 | Bm7(4) |
| 5x003x x4222x | 0x0232 | 5x003x x0202x | x2023x |
| E7 | E7 | Em7 | A7 |
| 2x0100 | 2x0100 | 2x0000 | x0202x |
| A7sus4 | A7 |
| x0203x | x0202x | [Now go back to middle of verse]
Coda
| D | Gmaj7/B | D | Gmaj7/B |
| 0x023x | x20032 | 2x0000 | x20032 |
| D A/C# | Bm7 A7 | G A7 | D ||
| 0x023x x4222x | x2023x x0202x | 5x000x x0202x | 000232 ||
LEAD GUITAR (John Jennings):
[Remember, this is written in C because Jennings has a 5th fret capo.]
First solo (end of second verse)
C C/E F C/E Dm7
E --|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B --|----------------|----------------|----------------|--------------1-|
G --|------0-0-------|----------------|--------2=0-----|----------0=2---|
D 03|3--2------------|----------------|-----3-------2--|0-----2=3-------|
A --|triplet---------|----------2-3-2-|0-3-------------|----------------|
E --|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
. ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
G7sus4 G7 C C C/B Am
E ----------------|------0=1-------|----------------|----------------|--
B 0-----3---------|0--------------3|----------------|----------------|--
G --2=0-----2-----|----------0---4-|5---------------|----------------|--
D ----------------|----------------|--------3-------|0=2-----0-------|--
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|------------3=2-|0-
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|--
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^
Longer solo (before third verse)
C G/B F/A G7
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G ----------------|----------------|------0-2-------|----------------|
D -----------3--2-|2/5-----------2-|3-------------32|0---------------|
A --------triplet-|----------------|----------------|----------23--2-|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
...cloth ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
Fmaj7 C Dm7 G
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|------1---3/5-5/|6~~~--------1-31|0---------------|
G --------------2=|0---------------|----------2-----|----------------|
D ------------3---|--3=2-----------|----------------|----------------|
A 0-------0-3-----|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
F/A G/B C F G7 Am7
E --1=0-----------|--3-------------|---3--1-0-------|----------------|
B ------1-3-0=1-3-|5---------------|-----------3--0-|1-----0-1-------|
G ----------------|----------------|triplet-0-------|--------------0-|
D ----------------|----------------|-----------3--0-|2-----0-2-------|
A ----------------|----------------|--------triplet-|--------------2-|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
D7 D7 Dm7 G7
E ----------------|----------------|-----------0----|----------------|
B ----------------|----------------|------1-1--1--3-|0-----------1=0=|
G ----------------|----------0-2=0-|---2--2-2-------|0---------------|
D 4---------------|----------------|3-------triplet-|----------------|
A 0---------------|----------------|triplet---------|----------------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
G7sus4 G7
E ----------------|----------------|
B 1-1=0-----------|----------------|
G ------0---------|----------------|
D --------0---3---|----------------|
A ----------3---3-|/5--------------|
E ----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
Coda
C Fmaj7 D Fmaj7
E --|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B --|3/5-------------|1---------------|----------------|----------------|
G 0-|--------------0-|2---------0=2---|0---------------|--------------0-|
D --|----------------|--------------3-|-----------2--0-|----------------|
A --|----------------|----------------|-----------3----|3---------------|
D --|----------------|----------------|--------triplet-|5---------------|
. ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
C G/B Am7 G7 F G7 C
E --------------3-|------3---------|---3--1-0-------|----------------||
B 3/5-----3-------|1-------0-------|-----------3----|1---------------||
G -----(0)---(0)--|---(0)----------|triplet-0-----0-|0---------------||
D ----------------|----------------|--------triplet-|2---------------||
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|3---------------||
D ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
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Girls With Guitars
[These chords are from Wynonna Judd's recorded version; the version that
Mary Chapin Carpenter does in concert is almost identical, except MCC
plays these chords with a capo on the third fret, raising it to G.]
[Each chord represents two beats, or half of a measure.]
[Play most of the chords with a typical rock 'n' roll feel, with sixths
on the offbeats (see tab at end of file). Play sevenths if you want.]
n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c n.c. n.c. n.c. A A A A
[electric guitar intro] [whole band]
A A D A
She turned fifteen with great expectations
A A E A
Her older brother knew that something was up
A A D A
He caught her going through his record collection
A A E A
Looking at Hendrix like a lovesick pup
E E D A
She begged and she pleaded 'til Dad finally listened
E E F#m D
He drove her in the car down to Sears Roebuck
E E D A
He bought her that guitar and that was the beginning
B B E E D A E
Now she's down in the cellar with the amp turned up [guitar break #1]
A A D A
Girls with guitars (Daddy's little angel)
A A E D
Girls with guitars (What's the world coming to)
A A D A
Girls with guitars (Mothers tend to worry 'bout)
A A E A
Girls with guitars
A A D A A A E A
[instrumental]
Well, Saturday nights she followed her brother
It was socks and stockings on the old gym floor
While everybody danced to garage band covers
She was checking out riffs and memorizing chords
She didn't care at all for the football heroes
She didn't even notice the basketball stars
Boys as a species were all a bunch of zeros
B B E E5 - G5 - A5 - E5 - G5 - Bb5-A5
Except for the ones that played that guitar [guitar break #2]
Ahh, girls with guitars (Ahe wasn't any debutante)
Girls with guitars (Ahe didn't go out for cheerleading)
Girls with guitars (Boys are kind of nervous 'round)
Girls with guitars
D D G G
She went off to college, she got her degree
A A E A
Her parents breathed a sigh of great relief
D D G G
Daddy's thinking law school, mother's thinking medicine
C C E E E E
Daughter's thinking how she's gonna break the news to them
A A D A A A E A
[guitar solo]
A A D A A A E A
[guitar solo]
Now there's an old Chevy van just sitting in the driveway
Filled to the gills with all her stuff
She cut a deal with her brother to drive it up the highway
Figures New York City is close enough
She gets the audition through a friend of a friend
Who's checking out her legs, saying this'll never work
She flips on her Boogie and turns to the band
B B E n.c. n.c.
Gives a little grin and blows away the jerk [guitar break #3]
Girls with guitars (Now everybody's rocking)
Girls with guitars (There oughta be a song about)
Girls with guitars (There's just no stopping those)
Girls with guitars
A A D A A A E A
Get your money for nothing and your guys for free
A A D A A A E A.
[instrumental]
RHYTHM:
[This is just a suggestion to give a feel
for the song:]
A D A
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|3---3-----------|
|2---2---2---2---|2---4---2---2---|
|2---4---2---4---|0---0---2---4---|
|0---0---0---0---|0---0---0---0---|
|0---0---0---0---|--------0---0---|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
GUITAR BREAK #1:
E D A E
|----------------|2-2-----0-0-----|0-0-----|
|----------------|3-3-----2-2-----|0-0-----|
|----------------|2-2-----2-2-----|1-1-----|
|----------------|0-0-----2-2-----|2-2-----|
|----------------|0-0-----0-0-----|2-2-----|
|----------------|----------------|0-0-----|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
...turned up
GUITAR BREAK #2:
E E5 G5 A5 E5 G5 Bb5 A5
|----------------|----------------|--------|
|----------------|----------------|--------|
|------------0---|2-2---4---0---3-|2-------|
|--------2---0---|2-2---2---0---3-|2-------|
|--------2-------|----------------|--------|
|----------------|----------------|--------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
..that guitar
GUITAR BREAK #3:
[There are about a million different positions to play this in,
since it's probably the most well-known riff in rock music. I've
given a couple possibilities, but play it however you want:]
|----------------|----------------| |----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------| |----------------|--------8~~-----|
|----------------|----------------| |9-9-7-9---------|------9-----9---|
|2-2-0-2---------|--------5~~-----| |9-9-7-9---9---8-|--7-------------|
|2-2-0-2---2---1-|--0---7-----7---| |----------9---8-|--7-------------|
|----------2---1-|--0-------------| |----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
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Going Out Tonight
[Actually in F; capo 5.]
[Each chord is about half a measure.]
[The rhythm is an important part of this song; I'd write it down, but
I think it's pretty easy to figure out from listening to the recording.
C is 332010, and C(9) is 330010.]
C C(9) C C(9) C C(9) C C(9)
[intro]
C C(9) C C(9) C C(9) C C(9)
I'm going out tonight to find myself a friend
C C(9) C C(9) C C(9) C C(9)
I need a welcome smile and the grasp of an open hand
F F Am Am F F Am Am
Gonna sit for hours in a small dark place, catch up with a long lost face
C C(9) C C(9) C C(9) C C(9)
And talk about how long it's really been
I'm going out tonight with perfume on my wrist
I'm need to find someone to show me what I've missed
And when I see that someone sittin' there, gonna tell your memory I don't care
If he offers something more than just a kiss
G G Em F F F F F
Underneath the moon so bright, I wanna fall tonight
G G G F
Beneath a spell
G G Em F F F F F
Underneath the sky so clear, I wanna find someone waiting there
G G G G
Who used to know me well
I'm going out tonight without a chaperone
I'm gonna leave that meddling heart of mine at home
'Cause it don't like crowds or closing time, neon blues or pickup lines
It makes me spend my Friday nights alone
Underneath the moon so bright [first guitar solo]
Underneath the sky so clear [second guitar solo]
I'm gonna tell myself that someone I adore
Is the one I'm with, ain't that what friends are for
'Cause my empty arms are open wide; I'm long on spite, and short on pride
And the old way isn't working anymore
C C(9) C C(9) C C(9) C C(9) C C(9) C.
I'm going out tonight to find myself a friend
TAB:
[These notes should be right, but I don't know about the
voicings; if it's easier in another position, go for it.]
FIRST GUITAR SOLO:
F C G F
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ------111--0----|----------------|----------------|------8---------|
G ------222--0--2-|2--0--0---------|----------------|---/7-----------|
D --------------3-|3--2--2------02-|3--2--3-5-------|--5-------------|
A --------triplet-|triplet----02---|5--3--5-5-------|----------------|
E ----------------|----------3-trip|triplet---------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
SECOND GUITAR SOLO:
F C G
E ----------------|------000--1--3-|5--1------------|----------------|
B ------666--5--3-|1-----111--3--5-|6--3--3---------|----3-----------|
G ------777--5--4-|0-------triplet-|------4-4-------|5=4---5---------|
D ----------------|----------------|triplet---------|----------------|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E --------triplet-|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
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Goodbye Again
[Actually in C#; capo 4. Tuning: D A C# E A E.]
[This tablature is for the first verse; all the verses should be
similar, but the timing in the coda is a little bit different.]
[Complete lyrics are at the end.]
[Chords: F#m9=400400; F#m9/E=200400; D(9)=001200; Dmaj9=000000;
A/E: 200000; E7sus=201000.]
F#m9 F#m9/E D(9) D(9) Dmaj9
E ------0---------|----------------|------0---------|----------------|
A ----0-----------|----------0-----|----0-----------|----------0-----|
E --4-----------4-|----------------|--2-------------|--------------0-|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|--------0-------|
D 4-------4-------|2-------2-------|0-------0-------|0---------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
[intro]
F#m9 F#m9/E D(9) D(9) Dmaj9
E ------0---------|----------------|------0---------|----------------|
A ----0-----------|----------0-----|----0-----------|----------0-----|
E --4-----------4-|----------------|--2-------------|--------------0-|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|--------0-------|
D 4-------4-------|2-------2-------|0-------0-------|0---------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
[intro]
F#m9 F#m9/E D(9) D(9) Dmaj9
E ------0---------|----------------|------0---------|----------------|
A ----0-----------|----------0-----|----0-----------|----------0-----|
E --4-----------4-|----------------|--2-----------2-|------2-------0-|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|--------0-------|
D 4-------4-------|2-------2-------|0-------0-------|0---------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
Every night she sleeps alone
F#m9 F#m9/E D(9) D(9) Dmaj9
E ------0---------|----------------|------0---------|----------------|
A ----0-----0-----|----------0-----|----0-----------|--0-------0-----|
E --4-----------4-|----------------|--2-----------2-|------2-------0-|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|--------0-------|
D 4-------4-------|2-------2-------|0-------0-------|0---------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
And by her bed she puts the phone
F#m9 F#m9/E D(9) D(9) Dmaj9
E ------0---------|----------------|------0---------|----------------|
A ----0-----0-----|----------0-----|----0-----------|--0-------0-----|
E --4-----------4-|----------------|--2-----------2-|------2-------0-|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|--------0-------|
D 4-------4-------|2-------2-------|0-------0-------|0---------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
And every morning after that
F#m9 F#m9/E D(9) D(9) Dmaj9
E ------0---------|----------------|--------------0-|----------------|
A ----0-----------|----------0-----|------0---------|----------0-----|
E --4-----------4-|----------------|--2-------2-----|------2-------0-|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D 4-------4-------|2-------2-------|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
She takes the phone and puts it back
A/E A/E E7sus E7sus
E ----------------|------0---------|----------------|------0---------|
A ----------------|----------0-----|--------------0-|----------0-----|
E ----------0-----|--0-----------0-|----------0-----|--0-----------0-|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------1---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D 2-------2-------|2-------2-------|2-------2-------|2-------2-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
He's got a wife back home and three kids up and grown
A/E A/E D(9) D(9)
E ----------------|------0---------|--------------0-|----------------|
A --------------0-|----------0-----|----------------|----------0-----|
E ----------0-----|--0-----------2-|----------2-----|------2-------0-|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------1---|
A ----------------|----------------|--------0-------|--------0-------|
D 2-------2-------|2-------2-------|0---------------|0---------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
But these are things that go unsaid
A/E A/E E7sus E7sus
E ----------------|------0---------|----------------|------0---------|
A ----------------|----------0-----|--------------0-|----------0-----|
E ----------0-----|--0-----------0-|----------0-----|--0-----------0-|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------1---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D 2-------2-------|2-------2-------|2-------2-------|2-------2-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
He might call her from the road just in time to say hello
D(9) D(9)
E --------------0-|------0---------|
A ----------------|----------0-----|
E ----------2-----|--2-------------|
C#----1-------1---|----1-------0---|
A --------0-------|--------0-------|
D 0---------------|0---------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
F#m9 F#m9/E D(9) D(9) Dmaj9
E ------0---------|----------------|------0---------|----------------|
A ----0-----------|----------0-----|----0-----------|----------0-----|
E --4-----------4-|----------------|--2-------------|--------------0-|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|--------0-------|
D 4-------4-------|2-------2-------|0-------0-------|0---------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
and goodbye again
F#m9 F#m9/E D(9) D(9) Dmaj9
E ------0---------|----------------|--------------0-|----------------|
A ----0-----------|----------0-----|------0---------|----------0-----|
E --4-----------4-|----------------|--2-------2-----|----------------|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|--------0-------|
D 4-------4-------|2-------2-------|0-------0-------|0---------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
LYRICS:
Every night she sleeps alone
And by her bed she puts the phone
And every morning after that
She takes the phone and puts it back
He's got a wife back home and three kids up and grown
But these are things that go unsaid
He might call her from the road just in time to say hello
And goodbye again
She keeps his picture tucked away
She thinks she'll have it framed one day
And maybe he'll come see it there
Hanging by her rocking chair
In a corner of her room on a Sunday afternoon
When all the world is dull and gray
She might close her eyes and sit, rocking gently for a bit
Till all the bad thoughts go away
[piano solo: A/E A/E E7sus E7sus A/E A/E D(9) D(9) ]
[ A/E A/E E7sus E7sus D(9) D(9) D(9) D(9) ]
Back when children played their games
London Bridge and Jesse James
She captured flags, she bounced the ball
And every time, she beat them all
And now she comes home to a cat in a three-room walk-up flat
And plays a game of solitaire
Well she made a fist last night, and she broke the hallway light
And the pieces scattered everywhere
You see, he's got a wife back home and three kids up and grown
But these are things that go unsaid
He might call her from the road just in time to say hello
And goodbye again
[End on D(9).]
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Haley Came To Jackson
[Capo 2; each chord is half a measure.]
D D G D D D A D D D G D D D A D
[intro]
A A D D G D A D A A Bm G D D A D
[intro]
D D G D D D G D
Late one night when the wind was still
D D A D D D A D
Daddy brought the baby to the window sill
D D G D D D G D
To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky
D D A D D D A D
The one and only time Daddy saw it fly
A A D D
It came from the east just as bright as a torch
G D A D
The neighbors had a party on their porch
A A Bm G
Daddy rocked the baby, Mother said "amen"
D D A D
When Halley came to visit in nineteen ten
D D G D D D A D D D G D D D A D
[instrumental]
Now back then Jackson was a real small town
And it's not every night a comet comes around
It was almost eighty years since its last time through
So I bet your mother would've said "amen" too
As its tail stretched out like a stardust streak
The papers wrote about it every day for a week
They wondered where it's going and where it's been
When Halley came to Jackson in 1910
A A D D G D A D A A Bm G G G G D D A D
[instrumental]
D5 ...
Now Daddy told the baby sleeping in his arms
To dream a little dream of a comet's charms
And he made a little wish as she slept so sound
In nineteen eighty-six that wish came 'round ... D D A D
A A D D
It came from the east, just as bright as a torch
G D A D
She saw it in the sky from her daddy's porch
A A Bm G [pause]
As heavenly sent as it was back then
D Bm A D
When Halley came to Jackson in nineteen ten
A A D D G D A D A A Bm G D Bm A D
[instrumental]
D D G D
Late one night when the wind was still
D D G D D D A D.
[instrumental]
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He Thinks He'll Keep Her
[Actually in A; capo at the 2nd fret]
G G Em C G G Em C
[intro]
G G Em C
She makes his coffee, she makes his bed
G G Em C
She does the laundry, she keeps him fed
D D Am Am
When she was twenty-one she wore her mother's lace
D D Em - C D
She said forever with a smile upon her face
She does the carpool, she PTA's
Doctors and dentists, she drives all day
When she was twenty-nine she delivered number three
And every christmas card showed a perfect family
G D C D G
Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design
D C D
Spit and polish till it shines, he thinks he'll keep her
G D C D G
Everything is so benign, safest place you'll ever find
D C D
God forbid you'd change your mind, he thinks he'll keep her
G G Em C
[instrumental]
She packs his suitcase, she sits and waits
With no expression upon her face
When she was thirty-six she met him at the door
She said, "I'm sorry, I don't love you anymore"
[CHORUS]
D D Am Am
For fifteen years she had a job and not one raise in pay
D D Em - C D
Now she's in the typing pool at minimum wage
Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design
Spit and polish till it shines, he thinks he'll keep her
Everything is so benign, safest place you'll ever find
At least until you change your mind, he thinks he'll keep her
G G Em C G G Em C G G Em C G G Em C-D G
[ending]
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House Of Cards
[Actually in A; capo 2.]
[Each chord is half of a measure.]
G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus
[intro]
G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus
I grew up in a house like this, we knew the groan of every stair
G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus
All the walls seemed to listen in, all the years seemed to take up air
C(9) C(9) D G/B C(9) C(9) D G/B
When you dreamed it was of the wind blowing cold and hard
C(9) C(9) D G/B Am7 Am7 D D D D
In those dreams you thought you lived in a house of cards
G Gsus G Gsus
[instrumental]
I grew up in a town like this, we knew the names of every street
On the surface it looked so safe, but it was perilous underneath
That's the place you shoved your doubts and hid your ugly scars
God forbid if word got out about your house of cards
C C C C D D G G/F#
And now I feel the wind about to blow, and baby I'm so scared
Em Em Bm7 Bm7 Am7
You're repeating the past instead of letting it go
Am7 G G
And I don't wanna go back there
C(9) C(9) D G/B C(9) C(9) D G/B C(9) C(9) D G/B Am7 Am7 D D
[guitar solo]
C(9) C(9) D G/B C(9) C(9) D G/B C(9) C(9) D G/B Am7 Am7 D D D D
[guitar solo]
G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus
[instrumental]
Now we're standing here face to face, afraid to move or else
I wanna prop up this fragile place, I can't do it all by myself
'Cause when we dream, it's of the wind, blowing cold and hard
When we wake up we still live in a house of cards
'Cause when we dream, it's of the wind, blowing cold and hard
When we wake up we still live in a house of cards
G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus G Gsus
[repeat and fade]
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I Am A Town
[Actually in C; capo 3. Tuning: D A C# E A E.]
[Mary Chapin plays this with a thumbpick; I'd recommend trying that.]
[I'm sorry if this is a little hard to follow; it seemed to be the best
way to do it.]
[INTRO:]
D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4 D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4
E ----------------|--------0-------|----------------|--------0-------|
A ------0-------0-|----------0-----|------0-------0-|----------0-----|
E ----0-------0---|------0---------|----0-------0---|------0---------|
C#----------------|----1-------0---|----------------|----1-------0---|
A --5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|--5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|
D 4-------0-------|2---------------|4-------0-------|2---------------|
[repeat intro as necessary] I'm a
[VERSE:]
|| A/E A/E E(4)/D D(9)
|| E ----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|
||* A --------0-------|--------0-------|--------0-------|--------0-------|
|| E ------0---------|------0---------|------4---------|------2---------|
|| C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----3-------0---|----1-------1---|
||* A --0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|
|| D 2---------------|2---------------|0---------------|0---------------|
town in Carolina, I'm a detour on a ride; For a
peaches in September, and corn from a roadside stall; I'm the
church beside the highway where the ditches never drain; I'm a
town in Carolina, I am billboards in the fields; I'm an
A/E A/E E(4)/D D(9)
E ----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|
A --------0-------|--------0-------|--------0-------|--------0-------|
E ------0---------|------0---------|------4---------|------2---------|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----3-------0---|----1-------1---|
A --0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|
D 2---------------|2---------------|0---------------|0---------------|
phone call and a soda, I'm a blur from the driver's side; I'm the
language of the natives, I'm a cadence and a drawl; I'm the
Baptist like my daddy, and Jesus knows my name; I am
old truck up on cinder blocks, missing all my wheels; I am
D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4 D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4
E ----------------|--------0-------|----------------|--------0-------|
A ------0-------0-|----------0-----|------0-------0-|----------0-----|
E ----0-------0---|------0---------|----0-------0---|------0---------|
C#----------------|----1-------0---|----------------|----1-------0---|
A --5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|--5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|
D 4-------0-------|2---------------|4-------0-------|2---------------|
last gas for an hour if you're going twenty-five; I am
pines behind the graveyard, and the cool beneath their shade, where the
memory and stillness, I am lonely in old age; I am
Pabst Blue Ribbon, American, and "Southern Serves the South"; I am
D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4 D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4 ||
E ----------------|--------0-------|-----(0)--------|----------0-----| ||
A ------0-------0-|----------0-----|---(0)0-------0-|--------0-------| *||
E ----0-------0---|------0---------|----0-------0---|------0---------| ||
C#----------------|----1-------0---|----------------|----1-------0---| ||
A --5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|--5-------5-----|--2-----------0-| *||
D 4-------0-------|2---------------|4-------0-------|2---------------| ||
Texaco and tobacco, I am dust you leave behind. I am [repeat]
boys have left their beer cans; I am weeds between the graves. [to bridge]
not your destination; I am clinging to my ways; I am a town. [to solo]
tucked behind the Jaycees sign, on the rural route. [to ending]
[BRIDGE:]
F#m9 F#m9 D(9) D(9)
E ----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|
A --------0-------|--------0-------|--------0-------|--------0-------|
E ------4---------|------4---------|------2---------|------2---------|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------1---|
A --0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|
D 4---------------|4---------------|0---------------|0---------------|
My porches sag and lean with old black men and children;
F#m9 F#m9 D(9) D(9)
E --------0-------|----------0-----|--------------0-|----------0-----|
A ------0---0-----|--------0-------|--------0-------|--------0-------|
E ----4-----------|------4---------|------2---2-----|------2---------|
C#--0---------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------1---|
A --------------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-------------|--0-----------0-|
D 4---------------|4---------------|0---------------|0---------------|
Their sleep is filled with dreams, I never can fulfill them; I am a
D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4 D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4
E ----------------|----------0-----|----------------|----------0-----|
A ------0-------0-|--------0-------|------0-------0-|--------0-------|
E ----0-------0---|------0---------|----0-------0---|------0---------|
C#----------------|----1-------0---|----------------|----1-------0---|
A --5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|--5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|
D 4-------0-------|2---------------|4-------0-------|2---------------|
town.
D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4 D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4
E ----------------|----------0-----|----------------|----------0-----|
A ------0-------0-|--------0-------|------0-------0-|--------0-------|
E ----0-------0---|------0---------|----0-------0---|------0---------|
C#----------------|----1-------0---|----------------|----1-------0---|
A --5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|--5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|
D 4-------0-------|2---------------|4-------0-------|2---------------|
[Back to beginning of verse 3...]
[SOLO:]
F#m9 F#m9/E D(9) D(9)
E ----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|
A --------0-------|--------0-------|--------0-------|--------0-------|
E ------4---------|------4---------|------2---------|------2---------|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------1---|
A --0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|
D 4---------------|2---------------|0---------------|0---------------|
F#m9 F#m9/E D(9) D(9)
E ----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|
A --------0-------|--------0-------|--------0-------|--------0-------|
E ------4---------|------4---------|------2---------|------2---------|
C#----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----1-------1---|----1-------1---|
A --0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-------------|--0-----------0-|
D 4---------------|2---------------|0---------------|0---------------|
D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4 D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4
E ----------------|----------0-----|----------------|--------0-------|
A ------0-------0-|--------0-------|------0-------0-|------0---------|
E ----0-------0---|------0---------|----0-------0---|------------0---|
C#----------------|----1-------0---|----------------|----1-----------|
A --5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|--5-------5-----|--2-------------|
D 4-------0-------|2---------------|4-------0-------|2---------------|
Ahhhhh..... I'm a
[ENDING:]
D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4 D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4
E ----------------|----------0-----|----------------|----------0-----|
A ------0-------0-|--------0-------|------0-------0-|--------0-------|
E ----0-------0---|------0---------|----0-------0---|------0---------|
C#----------------|----1-------0---|----------------|----1-------0---|
A --5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|--5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|
D 4-------0-------|2---------------|4-------0-------|2---------------|
I am a town. I am a town. I am a
D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4 D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4
E ----------------|----------0-----|----------------|----------0-----|
A ------0-------0-|--------0-------|------0-------0-|--------0-------|
E ----0-------0---|------0---------|----0-------0---|------0---------|
C#----------------|----1-------0---|----------------|----1-------0---|
A --5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|--5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|
D 4-------0-------|2---------------|4-------0-------|2---------------|
town. Southbound.
D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4 D(9)/F# D(9) E7sus4
E ----------------|----------0-----|------0---------|----------0-----|
A ------0-------0-|--------0-------|----0---------0-|--------0-------|
E ----0-------0---|------0---------|------------0---|------0---------|
C#----------------|----1-------0---|----------------|----1-------0---|
A --5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|--5-------5-----|--2-----------0-|
D 4-------0-------|2---------------|4-------0-------|2---------------|
[repeat these four measures several times, then end on A (200000).]
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I Feel Lucky
[Actually in B; capo at the 7th fret]
E E E E E E E E
[intro]
E E
Well I woke up this morning stumbled out of my rack
E E
I opened up the paper to the page in the back
A A
It only took a moment for my finger to find
E E
My daily dose of destiny, under my sign
B B
My eyes just about popped out of my head
E [stop] n.c.
It said "the stars are stacked against you girl, get back in bed"
A A E E
I feel lucky, I feel lucky, yeah
B B
No Professor Doom gonna stand in my way
E [stop] n.c. E E E E
Mmmmm, I feel lucky today [instrumental]
Well I strolled down to the corner, gave my numbers to the clerk
The pot's eleven million so I called in sick to work
I bought a pack of Camels, a burrito and a Barq's
Crossed against the light, made a beeline for the park
The sky began to thunder, wind began to moan
I heard a voice above me saying, "girl, you better get back home"
But I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah
No tropical depression gonna steal my sun away
Mmmmm, I feel lucky today
A A E E B B E B
[Guitar solo]
E [stop]
Now eleven million later, I was sitting at the bar
(D) E [stop]
I'd bought the house a double, and the waitress a new car
A [stop]
Dwight Yoakam's in the corner, trying to catch my eye
(D) E [stop]
Lyle Lovett's right beside me with his hand upon my thigh
(A) B [stop] B [stop]
The moral of this story, it's simple but it's true
E E7
Hey the stars might lie, but the numbers never do
I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah
Hey Dwight, hey Lyle, boys, you don't have to fight
Hot dog, I'm feeling lucky tonight
I feel lucky, brrrrr, I feel lucky, yeah
Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way
Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today
E E E E A A E E B B E n.c. (F#9) (F9) E9 E
[piano solo] [piano break] [crescendo] [stop]
TAB:
(Don't forget the capo on the 7th fret.)
Play the E measures And the A measures
like this: like this:
|----------------| |----------------|
|----------------| |----------------|
|----------------| |2---2---2---2---|
|2---2---2---2---| |2---4---2---4---|
|2---4---2---4---| |0---0---0---0---|
|0---0---0---0---| |----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
I'm not sure about B. It might be x244xx and x264xx (like A), or it might
just be x244xx.
For the very beginning of the song, slide into the first E with 011xxx.
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I Take My Chances
[Actually in C, so capo at the 5th fret; each chord is half a measure.]
G D C C G D C C
[intro]
G D Em C
I took a walk in the rain one day
G D C C
On the wrong side of the tracks
G D Em C
I stood on the rails till I saw that train
G D C C
Just to see how my heart would react
Em Bm C C
Now some people say that you shouldn't tempt fate
Em D C C
And for them I can not disagree
G D Em C
But I never learned nothing from playing it safe
G G/B C C
I say fate should not tempt me
(C) G D C C G D C C
I take my chances; I don't mind working without a net
(C) G D C C G D C C
I take my chances; I take my chances every chance I get
I sat alone in the dark one night, tuning in by remote
I found a preacher who spoke of the light but there was brimstone in his throat
He'd show me the way according to him in return for my personal check
I flipped the channel back to CNN, and I lit another cigarette
I take my chances; yes, forgiveness doesn't come with a debt
I take my chances; I take my chances every chance I get
G D C C G D C C G D C C G D C C
[guitar solo]
I've crossed lines of words and wire, and both have cut me deep
I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep
But I can cry until I laugh, or laugh until I cry
So cut the deck right in half, I'll play from either side
I take my chances; I pay my dollar and I place my bet
I take my chances; I take my chances every chance I get
I take my chances; yeah, I don't cling to remorse or regret
I take my chances; I take my chances every chance I get
I take my chances...
[Repeat G D C C; end on G.]
[Concert ad-lib lyrics:]
No remorse, no regrets
I chewed another Nicorette
I ordered up some crepes Suzette
I found Elvis on the Internet
I went camping with a young cadet
He showed me his bayonet
I looked at him and said, "you should get an Erector set"
Who needs a boyfriend, you can get a pet
TAB:
The electric guitar actually plays this in C with no capo. These are the
right notes; I'm not sure about the exact fingerings.
C G F C G F
E ----0-----------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B --1-----3-----1-|------1---------|----1---0-------|----------------|
G 0---------4-----|--2-------0---0-|--0-------0---2-|------0---------|
D ------------5---|----3-------3---|2-----------0---|--3-------3---3-|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----3-------3---|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
Here it is in G, if you want to play it with the capo on the 5th fret:
G D C G D C
E ----7---5-----3-|------3---------|----3---2-----0-|----------------|
B --8-------7-----|--5-------3---3-|--3-------3-----|------3---------|
G 7-----------7---|----5-------5---|4-----------2---|--5-------5--5--|
D ----------------|----------------|----------------|----5-------5---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
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I Want To Be Your Girlfriend
Use the A chord form for the slide
start it out on the 2nd fret slide down to the 1st fret
slide it back to the 2nd fret then to the 4th fret. Try
not to strum the top string while doing this. That will
complete the A slide Ab slide A slide B
Intro chords E A B E A B E A B E A slide Ab slide A slide B
Intro notes listen to record for timing
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5-5-4-2-0-2-0------5-5-4-2-0-2-4----5-5-4-2-0-2-0---
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--4-0-2-4-5-7-0---------
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E A B E A B
I want to be your girlfriend I want to be your new love
E A B E A slide Ab slide A B
I want to be the one that you can't get e- nough of
E A B E A B
I want to be your girlfriend, nobody else's but yours
E A B E A slide Ab slide A slide B
I want to be the one who you'll do an- y thing for
E B E B E
1.) Never thought I'd ever wind up in a daze like this
E B E B E
Never thought I'd ever find myself wondering how you kiss
B E F# B
I see you nearly everyday, and everyday I lose my nerve
B E F# B
That I built up the night before rehersing every single word
E B E B E
2.) You use to be just this guy I knew from that same old scene
E B E B E
For all the time that I've known you, just now I'm noticing
B E F# B
That everything there is to feel, feels worse than any teenage crush
B E F# B
And all the times that I've been near you, now I can't get near enough
E A B E A B
Oh I want to be your girlfriend, nobody else's but yours
E A B E A slide Ab slide A slide B
I want to be the one who you'll do an- y thing for
A Ab E7
I just keep hoping that you're gonna see
F#
If I could notice you then you could notice me
F#m
Then I'd be more to you, oh I just wanna be
F# B C# F# B C#
I want to be your girlfriend I want to be your new love
F# B C# F# B slide Bb slide B slide C#
I want to the one that you can't get e- nough of
F# B C# F# B C#
I want to be your girlfriend Nobody else's but yours
F# B C# F# B slide Bb slide B slide C#
I want to be the one who you'll do an- y thing for
ENDING NOTES:
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-7--7--6--4-----4--------7--7--6--4-----4--6---
-------------6-----6-----------------6---------
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-------------------------6-6-6---7-7-7--6---
-7--7--6--4-----4---------------------------
-------------6-----6------------------------
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Then bounce the following two chords.
To sound like the record barre these chords.
Use the the Bb form. E is this form on the 7th fret.
F# is this form on the 9th fret.
Diagram of the Bb form.
| represent the empty string and 0 is where you place your fingers.
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ENDING CHORDS: E F# E F# E F# E F#
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It Dont Bring You
[Actually in F; capo up five frets. It's easier if you tune low E up to F.]
[The whole song follows this same pattern, except at the end of the verses,
it stays on Fmaj9 for an extra measure. The song ends on F.]
C C/B Am7 Am7/G Fmaj9
E 0-----0-----0-----0-----|------0-----------0-----|
B --1-----1-----1-----1---|--------1-----------1---|
G ----0-----0-----0-----0-|------0---0-------0---0-|
D ------------------------|----3-----------3-------|
A 3-----2-----0-----------|--3-----------3---------|
E ------------------3-----|1-----------1-----------|
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
C - C/B - Am7 - Am7/G Fmaj9
Well I know it ain't been roses lately, baby, it's just been thorns
And no matter what we do, nothing seems to change
Love has always been my shelter, for you it's been a storm
But for a while I thought we'd almost beat the rain
Now there's a hole here in my pocket where all my dreams have gone
Fallen out like so many nickels and dimes
And last of all you, you'd always been my good luck charm
I should've known that luck's a waste of time
'Cause it don't bring you love if you don't love
And it don't bring you time if you ain't got time
And it don't bring you strength, baby, if you ain't strong
And it don't bring you kindness if you ain't kind
Now there's a whole lot of life to be unsure of
But there's one thing I can safely say I know
That of all the things that finally desert us
Pride is always the last thing to go
But it won't bring you love if you don't love
And it won't bring you time if you ain't got time
And it won't bring you strength, baby, if you ain't strong
And it won't bring you kindness if you ain't kind
Dm7 G C F Dm E+ - Fm6 C Gsus - G - G(9) - G
[Guitar solo; see below]
And now I wish you only roses, baby, without the thorns
And I hope your dreams are always within reach
And I wish you shelter, baby, from all your storms
They scared you, but they never seemed to teach
That I can't bring you love if you don't love
And I can't bring you time if you ain't got time
And I can't bring you strength, baby, if you ain't strong
And I can't bring you kindness if you ain't kind
And I can't bring you kindness if you ain't kind
Here's my rendition of the guitar solo ('t'aint perfect, I know):
~ means bend it up a half-step, then back down again.
// is a slide.
There's a few hammer-ons/pull-offs that I couldn't notate because
there was no room between the numbers; you can figure 'em out.
Dm7 Gsus G G/F F
E ------|------------------------|------------------------|
B --0-1-|1-------------------1310|1----10-----0-------0-1-|
G 2-----|--2-2-------------------|----------------2-------|
D ------|------------------------|--------------0---------|
A ------|------------------------|------------------------|
E +-----|+-----+-----+-----+-----|+-----+-----+-----+-----|
C F Dm
E --------------------0//3|31--------------------0-|1-----------------------|
B ------------------01----|--1---------------1-3---|-3----------------5~5-35|
G 0-----------------------|---2--------------------|--2---------------------|
D ------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
A ------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
E +-----+-----+-----+-----|+-----+-----+-----+-----|+-----+-----+-----+-----|
(bend)
E+ Fm6 C/G Gsus G G(9) G
E ------------------------|--------------------0---|------------------------|
B 5-------31--31----------|------------------1---3-|1--31-0-----------------|
G --------------1-----3-1-|0-----------------------|------------2-----0-----|
D ------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
A ------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
E +-----+-----+-----+-----|+-----+-----+-----+-----|+-----+-----+-----+-----|
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John Doe No. 24
This song is in the key of E, but Mary Chapin plays it in G with a
capo at the 9th fret, in open D tuning (DADF#AD). But the highest
string is never used, so you don't have to tune that one down; since
high E's often break, you may as well tune to DADF#AE.
The guitar part repeats one pattern through the entire song, with some
slight variations. This tablature is for the first four measures of
the intro, and it shows two ways to play the end of the pattern; through
most of the song, she uses the second way, especially while she's
singing. (Note that the "131" in the tab is a hammer-on followed by a
pull-off, and the "13" is a hammer-on from 1 to 3, not thirteen!
D ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A ------0---------|----------------|------0---------|----------------|
F# 1-------1-----1-|------1-131---0-|1-------1-----1-|------1-13----0-|
D ----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
A --2-------3-----|--3-------------|--2-------3-----|--3-------0-----|
D 0-------2-------|0-------0-------|0-------2-------|0-------0-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
I'm not sure exactly which fingers she uses; she might use her thumb
to fret the low E. (If anyone finds out, let me know.) Notice that
I didn't put chord names; that's because they don't really matter.
I guess you could say the chords are: G(9), C(9)/E, C(9)/D, D(4).
LYRICS (each line is two measures):
I was standing on the sidewalk in 1945
In Jacksonville, Illinois
When asked what my name was there came no reply
They said I was a deaf and sightless half-wit boy
But Louis was my name, though I could not say it
I was born and raised in New Orleans
My spirit was wild, so I let the river take it
On a barge and a prayer upstream
Well they searched for a mother and they searched for a father
And they searched till they searched no more
The doctors put to rest their scientific tests
And they named me "John Doe No. 24"
And they all shook their heads in pity
For a world so silent and dark
Well there's no doubt that life's a mystery
But so too is the human heart
And it was my heart's own perfume when the crepe jasmine bloomed
On Rue Morgue Avenue
Though I couldn't hear the bells of the streetcars coming
By toeing the track I knew
And if I were an old man returning
With my satchel and porkpie hat
I'd hit every jazz joint on Bourbon
And I'd hit everyone on Basin after that
[sixteen-bar saxophone solo]
The years kept passing as they passed me around
From one state ward to another
Like I was an orphan shoe from the lost and found
Always missing the other
And they gave me a harp last Christmas
And all the nurses took a dance
But lately I've been growing listless
I've been dreaming again of the past
I'm wandering down to the banks of the great Big Muddy
Where the shotgun houses stand
I am seven years old and I feel my dad
Reach out for my hand
While I drew breath no one missed me
So they won't on the day that I cease
Put a sprig of crepe jasmine with me
To remind me of New Orleans
I was standing on the sidewalk in 1945
In Jacksonville, Illinois
[pause on A note (open 2nd string)]
[repeat and fade with saxophone solo]
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Jubilee
[Each chord is half of a 6/8 measure.]
[Actually in Bb; capo 3.]
[G=320033; C(9)=x32033.]
G C(9) G D G C(9) G D
[intro]
G C(9) G D G C(9) G D
[intro]
G C(9) G G
I can tell by the way you're walking
C(9) G D D
That you don't want company
G C(9) G G
I'll let you alone and I'll let you walk on
C(9) G D D
And in your own good time you'll be
C(9) G Em7 Em7
Back where the sun can find you
C(9) G D D
Under the wise wishing tree
G C(9) G G
And with all of them made we'll lie under the shade
C(9) G D D
And call it a jubilee
And I can tell by the way you're talking
That the past isn't letting you go
But there's only so long you can take it all on
And then the wrong's gotta be on its own
And when you're ready to leave it behind you
You'll look back, and all that you'll see
Is the wreckage and rust that you left in the dust
C(9) D G G
On your way to the jubilee
G C(9) G G C(9) G D D
[instrumental]
And I can tell by the way you're listening
That you're still expecting to hear
Your name being called like a summons to all
Who have failed to account for their doubts and their fears
They can't add up to much without you
And so if it were just up to me
I'd take hold of your hand, saying come hear the band
C(9) D G G
Play your song at the jubilee
C(9) G Em7 Em7 C(9) G D D
[instrumental]
G C(9) G G C(9) G D D
[instrumental]
And I can tell by the way you're searching
For something you can't even name
That you haven't been able to come to the table
Simply glad that you came
And when you feel like this try to imagine
That we're all like frail boats on the sea
Just scanning the night for that great guiding light
C(9) G D D
Announcing the jubilee
And I can tell by the way you're standing
With your eyes filling with tears
That it's habit alone keeps you turning for home
Even though your home is right here
Where the people who love you are gathered
Under the wise wishing tree
May we all be considered then straight on delivered
C(9) G D D
Down to the jubilee
C(9) G Em7 Em7
'Cause the people who love you are waiting
C(9) G D [hold for 1.5 measures]
And they'll wait just as long as need be
G C(9) G G
When we look back and say those were halcyon days
C(9) D G G
We're talking 'bout jubilee
G C(9) G G C(9) G D D
[instrumental]
G C(9) G G C(9) D G G.
[instrumental]
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Just Because
[Actually in E; capo 4. Tuning: EADGBD.]
[Note that the words aren't _exactly_ where they're supposed to be
with respect to the rhythm. But they're close.]
C(9) Am7(4) F6(9) C(9)/G G Gsus
D 0---------------|0---------------|0---------------|----------------|
B ------1---------|------1---------|------1---------|1-----0---1-----|
G ----0-----0---0-|----0-----0---0-|----0-----0---0-|----0---------0-| [play
D --2-----2-------|--2-----2-------|--3---------3---|--2---------0---| twice]
A 3-----3-----2---|0-----0---------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|------------3---|1-------1-------|3-------3-------|
[intro]
C(9) Am7(4) F6(9) G Gsus C(9) G(4)/B
D 0---------------|----------0-----|----------------|0---------------|
B ------1---------|------1-----1---|----1---0---1---|----1-------1---|
G ----0-----0---0-|----0---------0-|------0-------0-|------0-------0-|
D --2-----2-------|--2-------------|--3-------0-----|--2-------0-----|
A 3-----3-----2---|0-------0-------|----------------|3-------2-------|
E ----------------|----------------|1-------3-------|----------------|
1. Have you ever loved someone you knew nothing of
2. Have you ever tried to speak the truth instead of lie
3. Now I see the ones who've lost too much, they swear they're done
F6 C(9)/E F6 Gsus G(9)
D ----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|----------------|
B ------1-----1---|------1-----1---|------1-----1---|1---0-----0-----|
G 2-------------0-|----0---------0-|----2---------0-|------2-------0-|
D ----3-----------|--2-------------|--3-------------|--------0-------|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E 1-------1-------|0-------0-------|1-------1-------|3-----------3---|
except you'd seen the light inside their eyes
when it seemed you had everything to lose
with love and all the chance it brings for pain
C(9) Am7(4) F6(9) G C(9) G(4)/B
D 0---------------|------0---------|----------------|----0-----------|
B ------1---------|----------1-----|----------0-----|------------1---|
G ----0-----0---0-|----0---------0-|------0-------0-|------0-------0-|
D --2-----2-------|--2---------0---|----3-------0---|--2-------0-----|
A 3-----3-----2---|0-------0-------|--3-------------|3-------2-------|
E ----------------|----------------|1-------3-------|----------------|
Have you ever loved someone just because
Have you ever tried to stand your ground instead of hide
But have you ever touched, and by itself it was enough
F6(9) G C(9) Csus C(9) G/B
D ----------0-----|----------0-----|----------------|--------------0-|
B --------1-------|------0---------|1-----1-----1---|1-----1---------|
G ------0-------0-|----0---------0-|----0-----0---0-|----0-------0---|
D ----3-------3---|--0---------0---|--2-----3-------|--2-------0-----|
A --3-------------|----------------|3-----3---------|3-------2-------|
E 1---------------|3-------3-------|----------------|----------------|
nothing felt so easy or so right And I
when staying only made you look a fool And I
to make you want to reach out once again And I'll
Am7(4) Em7 F6(9) C(9) G/B Am C/G
D ----------------|----------0-----|--------------0-|----------------|
B ------1-----0---|------1---------|------1---------|----------1-----|
G ----0---------0-|----0---------0-|----0-------0---|----2-0-------0-|
D --2-------2-----|--3---------3---|--2-------0-----|--2---------2---|
A 0---------------|----------------|3-------2-------|0---------------|
E --------0-------|1-------1-------|----------------|--------3-------|
think of you like the others do, wondering if you think of me
stayed by you, though I think I knew it wouldn't change a thing
touch you when I need a friend or just a small reminder
F6(9) D7/F# G G/F Em7 Gsus
D ----------0-----|------0---------|------------0---|--0-------------|
B ------1-----1---|----------1-----|----------------|------0-1-------|
G ----0---------0-|----2---------0-|----0---------0-|----------0---0-|
D --3-------------|--0---------0---|--0---0---0-----|----2-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E 1-------1-------|2-------2-------|3-------1-------|0---------------|
And if you do, if you really do, who is it that you see
Changes come to hearts with ease, but they come so hard to me
that I haven't grown too cold to feel you penetrate my armor [to coda]
C(9) Am7(4) Em7 F6(9)
D 0---------------|----------------|----------0-----|----------0-----|
B ------1---------|------1-------1-|----------------|------1-----1---|
G ----0-----0---0-|----0-----0-----|------0-0-----0-|----0---------0-|
D --2-----2-------|--2---------2---|----2-------2---|--3-------------|
A 3-----3-----2---|0-------0-------|--2-------------|----------------|
E ----------------|----------------|0-------0-------|1-------1-------|
Have you ever loved whether right or wrong
Have you ever tried to make it last, not knowing why
C(9) G(4)/B F6(9) Gs G C(9) C(9)* G
D ----0-------0---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ------1-------1-|----1---1=0-----|1-----1-----1---|1-----1---0-----|
G ----------------|------0-------0-|----0-----0---0-|----0---------0-|
D --2-------0-----|------------0---|--2-----2-------|--0---------0---|
A 3-------2-------|--3-------------|3-----3---------|3---------------|
E ----------------|1-------3-------|----------------|--------3-------|
Have you ever loved someone just because [go back, to verse 2]
Except you had to try, just because [continue to bridge]
[BRIDGE:]
D7/F# G F6(9) C(9)/G D7/F# G F6(9) C(9)/G
D ----0-------0---|----------------|------------0---|----------------|
B ----------------|----1-------1---|----1-----------|----1-------1---|
G --2---2---------|--0---0---------|--2---0---------|--0---0---------|
D ----------0---0-|----------2---0-|----------0---0-|----------2---0-|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E 2-------3-------|1-------3-------|2-------3-------|1-------3-------|
And every day that passes now, I s'pose I'm getting older
D7/F# G F6(9) Em7 F6(9) Em7 C(9)/G G
D ----0-------0---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|----1-------0---|----1-----------|----1---1=0-----|
G --2---2---------|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0-----0---|------0-------0-|
D ----------0---0-|----------------|----------2---2-|--2---------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E 2-------3-------|1-------0-------|1-------0-------|3-------3-------|
Wiser with the things I've done, but I hope I don't grow colder [to verse 3]
[CODA:]
C(9) Am7(4) Em7 F6(9)
D 0---------------|----------------|----------0-----|----------0-----|
B ------1---------|1-----1---------|----------------|------1---------|
G ----0-----0---0-|----0-----0---0-|------0-------0-|----0---------0-|
D --2-----2-------|--2---------0---|----2-------2---|--3---------3---|
A 3-----3-----2---|0-------0-------|--2-------------|----------------|
E ----------------|----------------|0-------0-------|1-------1-------|
Have you ever loved whether right or wrong
C(9) G/B F6(9) Gs G C(9) Am7(4) Am7(4)/G
D ------------0---|----------------|----------0-----|----------------|
B ----1---------1-|----1---0---1---|------1---------|----1-----1-----|
G --0---0---------|------0-------0-|----0---------0-|------0-------0-|
D ----------0-----|--3-------------|--2-------------|--2---------2---|
A 3-------2-------|----------------|3-------3---2---|0---------------|
E ----------------|1-------3-------|----------------|--------3-------|
Have you ever loved someone just because
F6(9) Gsus G C(9) C(9)* C(9)**
D ----------0-----|----------------|----------0---0-|0-------2-------|
B ------1-----1---|----1=0---------|------1---------|------1-1-------|
G ----0---------0-|--0-------------|----0-------0---|----0---0-------|
D --3-------------|----------------|--2-------------|--0-----0-------|
A ----------------|----------------|3-------3-------|3-------3-------|
E 1-------1-------|3---------------|----------------|----------------|
Have you ever loved someone just because
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Middle Ground
[Actually in A, so capo at the 2nd fret]
[Each chord is about half a measure (but many measures are broken up 3:5).]
G D G D C D C D G D G D C D C D
[intro]
G D G D
For years she's lived on her own
C D C D
In a corner of the city
G D G D
Twice a year she gets back home
C D C D
Playing catch-up with the family
She tells her folks what they need to know
Her mother says she's much too thin
Her sisters ask about her beau
Her dad inquires, how's business been
C D G C
She's thirty-three this time around
C D G C
She's always been real good at listening
C D G C
Her sense of humor never lets her down
C Em C D
Except sometimes there's something missing
G Am D D
Hey, middle ground
G Am D D
A place between up and down
G Am D D
She could be safe and sound
G Am C D
Oh, to know middle ground
G D G D C D C D
[instrumental]
For years she's been on her guard
She's kind of tense around the shoulders
She wonders why she works so hard
She counts the days 'til they promote her
She'll take a weekend now and then
To stay in bed and watch the reruns
She'll turn the phone off when guilt sets in
But Sunday always kinda leaves her let down
Hey, middle ground; a place between up and down
She could be safe and sound; oh, to know middle ground
F F C C D G D G
She gave her heart away one time, and says that she hasn't seen it since
F F C C A A C C
Love's a puzzle in her mind; the pieces match, but don't quite fit; hey...
G Am D D G Am D D G Am D D G Am C D
[guitar solo]
G D G D C D C D
[instrumental]
And these days run thick or thin
It never rains, or else it's pouring
All her single friends are men
She thinks married girls are so damn boring
Hey, middle ground; a place between up and down
She could be safe and sound; oh, to know middle ground
Hey, middle ground; a place between up and down
She could be safe and sound; oh, to know middle ground
G Am C D G Am C D G Am C D.
Oh, to know middle ground; oh, to know middle ground [instrumental]
TAB:
(Actually, these parts are played on an electric guitar with no capo,
but I've arranged it for a guitar capoed at the 2nd fret.)
Intro:
G D G D C D C D
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|---------------- ||
B ----------------|----------------|----------------|---------------- ||
G 0---4-2---------|0---4-2---4-2-0-|----0-2---------|----0-2--(4-2-0) .||
D --0-------------|--0-------------|2-4-------------|2-4------------- .||
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|---------------- ||
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|---------------- ||
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
(2nd time only)
Guitar solo:
G Am D G Am D
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ------1---0---0-|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G 0---------------|--2---2-----0-2-|4-2-0-----------|----------------|
D ----------------|----------4-----|------4-2-0---0-|----------------|
A ----------------|----------------|------------3---|2-0---0-----0-3-|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------23----|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
G Am D G Am C D
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ------------1-0-|0-----------3-1-|0-3---1---------|----------------|
G ----0-----0-----|--2---2---------|----------------|--0---2---------|
D --0---4-2-------|----------------|----------------|2-----------0---|
A 2---------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
G D G D C D C D
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|----------------|------------3---|----------------|
G 0---4-2---------|0---4-2---4-2-0-|----0-2---------|----0-2---------|
D --0-------------|--0-------------|2-4-------------|2-4-------------|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
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Never Had It So Good
[Each chord, or pair of chords joined by hyphens, is one measure.]
[D* means mix up a D(9) with the D. D** means play D-D11-D-Dsus-D-D11-D,
as shown in the tab at the end.]
G G C(9) D G G C(9) D
[intro]
G G C D*
No one's got to tell me it's over, I could see it from miles away
G C D** D**
No one's got to tell me what I don't already know today
G G C D*
No one's got to tell me they've seen you looking like a brand new man
Em C D** D**
No one's got to tell me you look like you've fallen in love again
G C G - D/F# Em
'Cause you're out of my life now with a wave of her hand
C C D** D**
You never had it so good babe, I never had it so bad
G C G - D/F# Em
Now you can do what you want to and never feel sad
C D [stop] G G C(9) D
You never had it so good babe, I never had it so bad [repeat intro]
No one's got to tell me the difference between me and the one who's returned
No one's got to tell me you never really got over her
No one's got to tell me they've seen you looking like a brand new man
No one's got to tell me you look like you've fallen in love again
'Cause you're out of my life now with a wave of her hand
You never had it so good babe, I never had it so bad
Now you can do what you want to and never feel sad
C D [stop] G G
You never had it so good babe, I never had it so bad
C D
So you just go where you go and do what you do, and
G - G/B C
Be who you want to be
C D
But when she burns you again and your phone doesn't ring
Em - C D D
Baby, it's me
'Cause you're out of my life now with a wave of her hand
You never had it so good babe, I never had it so bad
Now you can do what you want to and never feel sad
C D G - D/F# Em
You never had it so good babe, I never had it so bad
C D G - D/F# Em
You never had it so good babe, I never had it so bad
C D [stop] G G C D
You never had it so good babe, I never had it so bad
G G C(9) D G G C(9) D etc.
[repeat intro and fade]
TAB:
This is the D** part:
D D11 D Dsus D D11 D
| \ | | | | /
E 2---2---2-0-2-3^|3---3-2-0-2-----| A note on all these D chords: I
B 3---3---3-3-3-3^|3---3-3-3-3-----| wrote down pretty much what Mary-Chapin
G 2---2---2-0-2-2^|2---2-2-0-2-----| played on "Austin City Limits," but it's
D 0---0---0-0-0-0^|0---0-0-0-0-----| open to improvisation; I'm sure she
A ----------------|----------------| doesn't play it the same every time.
E ----------------|----------------| (The ^ is a tie across measures.)
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
The electric guitar plays the following part in the intro and fade-out;
at the very least, the acoustic guitar does the hammer-on in the 2nd bar.
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D ----------------|------------0---|0---------------|----------------|
A 2-----2---------|0=2---2---------|------3-----2---|2=0---0---------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
CHORDS:
G: 320033 in the intro; 320033 or 320003 elsewhere.
C: 332010 C(9): x32033
D: x00232 normally; see tab above for variations. D(9): x00230
D/F#: 200232 Em: 022000
indigo@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Adam Schneider)
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Not Too Much To Ask
D G D
To hear you say my name, to see you search my eyes
G A D
To feel you touch my hand, it more than satisfies.
G D G D
If I was not the first, just say I'll be the last
G A D
It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask.
G D
Now I can only dream of being all you need
G Bm G A
And I can only try to be the reason why
D G D
You think about today and forget about the past
G A D
It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask.
INSTRUMENTAL
G D
Now I can only dream of being all you need
G Bm G A
And I can only try to be the reason why
D G D Bm
You think about today 'cause the past is just the past
G A D Bm
It's too much to expect, but it doesn't hurt to ask
A G D
It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask.
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Other Streets, Other Towns
[Each chord is one 2/2 measure, except two chords joined by a hyphen are
one measure _total_; capo 5]
G G F(9) F(9) G G F(9) F(9)
[intro]
C G F F
The whippoorwills were crying in the falling rain
C G F F
Far away a whistle hailed a passing train
Am G F G
Out in the country summer was almost gone
Am Em F G G
The fields were turning rusty and the hills were turning brown
C G F F
Now I think of you when summer stars are on the rise
C G F F
I think of you with a bottle of wine and lazy eyes
Am G F G
Playing rock and roll songs on an old guitar
Am Em F Gsus - G Gsus - G
Getting drunk and sleeping out in my backyard
F G C - G/B Am - G
Now sometimes I just lie awake and I hear the wind
F G C - G/B Am - G
Blowing through the seasons of my heart again
F G Am F
My dreams are mostly lost and found on other streets, in other towns
F G C G F F C G F F
But babe, you know, I still look out for you
The cars were all abandoned on the city streets
When snow had left us stranded then we used our feet
And wound up drinking whiskey in a crowded bar
And now when it starts storming I wonder where you are
'Cause you said that I was crazy to believe in you
You said to never trust a man who sings the blues
Well trust and that old guitar was all you'd ever need
If you found a way to love the girl in me
[Chorus]
[Guitar solo: C G F F etc.]
Other boys I knew were just like shiny dimes
Tossed and spent, they came and went a hundred times
Nothing was as rough on me as giving up on you
Now it seems like every bar in town's got boys who sing the blues
[Chorus]
[Fade-out: F(9) F(9) C(9) C(9) etc.]
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Outside Looking In
[I'm not quite sure about some of these chords; I especially wonder about
the intro and the bridge. As always, suggestions are welcome.]
[Actually in A; capo 2.]
G F Am Am G F Am Am
[intro]
G D/F# C/E C
Everywhere I see the signs, pointing one direction
G D/F# C/E C
No more twists or crooked turns, leaving room for doubt
G D/F# C/E C
Where I used to take the time for quiet and reflection
G D/F# C/E C
Now I only hear the noise of what I am without
G G C(9)/G C(9)/G
I see them walking hand in hand, and my eyes just want to linger
G G C(9)/G C(9)/G
On those golden wedding bands, wrapped around their fingers
F F Am7 Am7
By the time I turn away, I feel it once again
G D/F# Am7 C
I'm back in this familiar place, outside looking in
G D/F# Am7 C
[instrumental]
Baby, all the tears between us couldn't fill the spaces
And all the word we grasped at, they just fell away
I kept waiting on forgiveness to fix the broken places
But nothing even like it ever came my way
And tonight I drove around, and the street came up before me
I took a turn and then I found this old house coming toward me
I heard the sound a heart must make when a memory's caving in
Oh baby, what a hungry place, outside looking in
G D/F# Am7 C G D/F# Am7 C
[instrumental]
G G C(9) C(9)
It's the hardest kind of need that never knows a reason
G G C(9) C(9)
Are we such a lonely breed, or just born in a lonely season
Am Am F F
Baby, it's all in the eyes, it's where the reckoning begins
Am Am F F
It's where we linger like a sigh, it's where we long to be pulled in
Am Am F F
It's where we learn to say goodbye without saying anything
G D/F# Am7 C
Standing on the borderline, outside looking in
G D/F# Am7 C G D/F# Am7 C
[instrumental; repeat and fade]
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Passionate Kisses
* Lucinda Williams' recording of this song is in E, so you'd have to put
a capo at the fourth fret to match the recording if you use these chords.
* Mary-Chapin Carpenter's recording is in D, and I know she plays it in
C with a capo at the second fret.
* In the instrumental bits, I put bar lines (|) to separate measures;
everywhere else in the song, one chord is one measure.
* The rhythm guitar doesn't actually play all those chords in the intro,
but it sounds neat.
* Mix up some (9)'s with the C's and F's.
x32013 x32011 x32010 320033 320030 320033 x02210 x02200 x02210 x33211
C C(addF) C | G G(addE) G(4) | Am Am(9) Am | F |
[intro; play twice]
C G
Is it too much to ask?
Am7 F
I want a comfortable bed that won't hurt my back
C G
Food to fill me up
Am7 F
And warm clothes and all that stuff
C Em7
Shouldn't I have this,
Am7
Shouldn't I have this?
F
Shouldn't I have all of this, and
C F
Passionate kisses
C F
Passionate kisses, whoa oh oh
C F
Passionate kisses from
C C(addF) C | G G(addE) G | Am Am(9) Am | F |
you
Is it too much to demand
I want a full house and a rock and roll band
Pens that won't run out of ink
And cool quiet and time to think
[chorus]
[Guitar solo; mostly the same chords as the verse, but it goes to G instead
of F the second time, then back to C.]
Do I want too much?
Am I going overboard to want that touch?
I shouted out to the night
Give me what I deserve, 'cause it's my right
[chorus]
[Repeat chorus, then fade on intro chords]
Someone met John Jenning's (MCC's guitarist) after a concert and asked
him how he plays this song in concert; he wrote it down in standard musical
notation, and I converted it to tablature. (But there's no guarantee that
this is where John Jennings puts his fingers.) The ">" marks are accents.
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B 10----8-----7---|5-----7---------|3-----2---------|----3-----3---3-|
G --7-----7-----7-|--7-----7---7---|--4-----4---4---|--0-----2-------|
D ----7-----7-----|----7-----7---7-|----4-----4---4-|5-----4-----2---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E +---+---+---+---|+---+---+---+---|+---+---+---+---|+---+---+---+---|
> > > > > > > > > > > >
Here it is in C (capo 2; I changed a couple notes to make it easier):
E 3-----1-----0---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B --1-----1-----1-|3-----5---------|1-----0---------|----1-----1-----|
G ----0-----0-----|--5-----5---5---|--2-----2---2---|--0-----0-----0-|
D ----------------|----5-----5---5-|----2-----2---2-|3-----2-----0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E +---+---+---+---|+---+---+---+---|+---+---+---+---|+---+---+---+---|
> > > > > > > > > > > >
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Quittin' Time
Okay, a couple notes about this song. First, I _suspect_ (but I don't
know for sure) that the electric guitar plays this song in D, and that
Mary-Chapin plays the acoustic guitar in C, capoed up two frets (as I've
written it here). (The recording _is_ in D.)
Don't worry too much about the bass notes in the chorus; they were just
so obvious I had to put them in.
The little riff at the end of the C Fmaj7 G G lines (after "tell me what
we're gonna do") is just Gsus4-Gsus4-G, Gsus4-Gsus4-G. Finger G as 320003,
and use your index finger to do the first fret on the B string. (Of course,
it's Asus4-Asus4-A if you play it in D.)
Each chord is half a measure. Capo 2.
C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G
[intro]
C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G
Hey baby, tell me what we're gonna do
C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G
It's getting crazy and I need some help from you
C C F F G G G G
We were so connected that you were a part of me
C C F F G G G G
Now I feel an emptiness right to the heart of me
Am G/B C F F C/E G G
But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine
Am G/B C F
And though we should be at an end
Am F (2/4) G
It's so hard admittin' when it's quittin' time
(4/4) C C Fmaj7 Fmaj7 G G G G
[instrumental]
Hey baby, I'm running out of things to say (C C FM7 FM7 G G G G)
Please don't hate me, this feeling just won't go away (C C FM7 FM7 G G G G)
Now we're spending all our time caught in a fantasy (C C F F G G G G)
Just trying to keep in mind the way it used to be (C C F F G G G G)
[Chorus]
[Guitar solo, same chords as chorus]
[Repeat second verse]
But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine (Am G C F F C G G)
And though we should be at an end (Am G C F)
It's so hard admittin' when it's quittin' time (Am F G C)
But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine (Am G C F F C G G)
And though we should be at an end (Am G C F)
It's so hard admittin' when it's quittin'... (Am F G)
(So hard admittin' when it's quittin'...) (Am F G)
So hard admittin' when it's quittin' time (Am F G C)
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Rhythm Of The Blues
[This song is actually in F. These chords with the lyrics are the chords
that Mary-Chapin Carpenter plays; she has a capo on the 3rd fret and plays
it in D. John Jennings plays it in C with a capo at the fifth fret.]
D A Em7 Em7 D A Em7 Em7
[intro]
D A Em7 Em7
I can hear the rain come down, I can listen with my heart
D A Em7 Em7
I can see with both eyes closed in the dark
G G (D) G G
Sleep will come in just a while but till it does I choose
D Bm G G
To listen to the rain, it's the rhythm of the blues
I walk along these streets of home that once belonged to us
And now baby I walk alone and I am lost
In the sound of my own footsteps on the avenues
I guess I'm only walking to rhythm of the blues
F#m Bm G A F#m Bm G A
I don't wanna hear another word spoken, I don't wanna see another tear shed
F#m Bm G A C C G G G G
I can't seem to fix what's broken, like this record baby in my head
D A Em7 Em7 D A Em7 Em7
[instrumental]
Lonely looks as bad on me as lonely looks on you
And still we keep on moving to the rhythm of the blues
I want a place to call my own, where you have never been
I wanna look around and know you won't be coming back again
On some pretense paper-thin that I can see right through
You come and go baby, like the rhythm of the blues
You come and go baby, like the rhythm of the blues
You come and go baby, like the rhythm of the blues...
[end on G]
TABLATURE
---------
[Note that the tab parts are written as if there is a capo at the fifth
fret, since this is how John Jennings plays the song. I'm not sure that
these are the _exact_ fingerings that Jennings uses, but they work.]
INTRO:
[This is played twice, more or less. The notes in parentheses are probably
played by the other guitar. The "strum" markers note places where there's
a noticable strum, but I don't know on which notes.]
C G Dm7 Dm7
E ------s---------|----------------|----------------|----------s-----|
B ------t---------|----------------|----------------|------1---t-----|
G ------r-----O---|----------------|----------------|----O-----r-----|
D ------u---O2--O-|----------------|----------------|--3-------u-----|
A 3-----m---------|----------3-2-O-|-----(O)--------|----------m-O-2-|
E ----------------|----------------|-----------(3=5)|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
GUITAR SOLO:
[If you're using a pick, play the double-stops with a slow sweep for that
arpeggio effect. Doesn't work as well with bare fingers.]
[A variation: at the end of the second C measure, instead of 3-2-0, play
it like the end of the second G measure (but on the D & G strings).]
C G Dm7 Dm7
E ----|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ---6|6-5------------1|1-O-----3--1--O-|O1O-------------|----------------|
G --7-|7-5-----------2-|2-O-----0triplet|---2------------|------------O---|
D ----|----------------|--------0-------|----------------|--------------3-|
A ----|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
C G Dm7 Dm7 (C)
E ----------------|----------------|------s-------s-|------------s---|
B ----------------|----------------|------t-------t-|------------t---|
G ----------------|----------------|------r-------r-|------------r---|
D 2---------3-2-O-|------------O---|------u-------u-|------------u---|
A ----------------|--------2=3---O-|------m-------m-|------------m---|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
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Shut Up And Kiss Me
[Each chord is half a measure.]
[The acoustic guitar is actually in E, with a capo on the 5th fret.
The electric is in A, no capo. These chords assume no capo.]
n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c.
[intro (drums)]
E D A A E D A A E D A A E D A A
[intro]
E D A A
Don't mean to get a little forward with you
E D A A
Don't mean to get ahead of where we are
E D A A
Don't mean to act a little nervous around you
E D A A
I'm just a little nervous about my heart
D E A A
It's been a while since I felt this feeling
D E A A
That everything that you do gives me
D E A A
It's been too long since somebody whispered
D E A A
Woooooo, shut up and kiss me
E D A A E D A A
[instrumental]
Didn't expect to be in this position
Didn't expect to have to rise above
My reputation for cynicism
I've been a jaded lady when it comes to love
But, oh baby, just to feel this feeling
That everything that you do gives me
It's been too long since somebody whispered
Woooooo, shut up and kiss me
B B B B
There's something 'bout the silent type
D E A A
Attracting me to you
B B B B
All business, baby, none of the hype
D D D E D A A E D A A
That no talker can live up too-ooo-ooo [guitar solo]
E D A A E D A A
[guitar solo]
E D A A E D A A E D A A E D A A
[piano solo]
Come closer baby, I can't hear you
Just another whisper, if you please
Don't worry 'bout the details, darling
You've got the kind of mind I love to read
Talk is cheap and baby, time's expensive
So why wait another minute more
Life's too short to be so apprehensive
Love's as much the symptom, darling, as the cure
Oh, baby, when I feel this feeling
It's like the genuine voodoo hits me
It's been too long since somebody whispered
Wooooo, hooooo
Oh baby, I can feel this feeling
That everything that you do gives me
It's been too long since somebody whispered
Woooooo, shut up and kiss me
Wooooo, hooooo
Woooooo, shut up and kiss me
TAB:
Piano "intro":
E 8=9-------------
B ----7=8---------
G --------5=6-----
D ------------4=5-
A ----------------
E ----------------
Acoustic rhythm guitar, verse (capo 5):
B A E
E ----------------|----------------| (Or something like this;
E 4---4---2---2---|----------------| improvise. The chorus is
G 4---4---2---4---|2---2---2---2---| the same, except the B
D 2---2---0---0---|2---4---2---4---| and the A are switched
A 2---2---0---0---|0---0---0---0---| around.)
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
Electric rhythm guitar, verse (no capo):
E D A E D A (E)
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G --------2---4-2-|----2---2-------|--------2---4-2-|----2---2-------|
D --------0---0-2-|----4---2---4-2-|--------0---0-2-|----4---2---4-2-|
A 2---4---------0-|----0---0---0-2-|----4---------0-|----0---0---0-2-|
E 0---0-----------|--------------0-|----0-----------|--------------0-|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
Electric rhythm guitar, chorus:
D E A D E A
E --|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B --|--3-------5-----|----------------|--3-------5-----|----------------|
G --|--------------2-|----2---2---2---|--------------2-|----2---2---2---|
D 3/|4---4-5/6-----2-|----4---2---4-3/|4---4-5/6-----2-|----4---2---4---|
A --|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E --|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
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Slow Country Dance
[Actually in A; capo at the 2nd fret.]
C D G G
[intro]
G C G D
Out on the floor the couples are swaying
G C G D
To "One Faded Love" on the jukebox tonight
Em7 C G D
You slide in your coins and the music keeps playing
G C D G
A slow country dance on a Saturday night
G C G D
Sweethearts in love and others just lonely
G C G D
Searching for someone to waltz with tonight
Em7 C G D
In a smoky old bar you know that it's only
G C D G G
A slow country dance on a Saturday night
F C G D
And love's never easy or ever as true
F C G D D
When the changing of partners is no longer new
G C G D
You lead with your heart, and closing your eyes
G C D G
Dance just to dance in three-quarter time
G C D G
[instrumental]
Down at the bar a woman tells stories
Batting her eyes to someone not there
Her glass is half full or maybe half empty
Like the jokes told about her when they think she can't hear
Now the perfume is cheap and the makeup is careless
And the dress out of fashion for a woman her age
But she don't give a damn for those who would cherish
A much lighter step and a much younger face
And love's never easy or ever as true
When the changing of partners is no longer new
You lead with your heart, and closing your eyes
Dance just to dance in three-quarter time
G C G D G C G D
[instrumental]
Em7 C G D G C D G G
[instrumental]
G C G D
Out on the floor the couples are swaying
G C D G
To "One Faded Love" on the jukebox tonight
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Something Of A Dreamer
[Mary Chapin Carpenter plays this in A with a capo on the 2nd fret;
John Jennings' lead part is in G with a capo on the 4th fret. The
chords written here are MCC's.]
[It's possible that MCC's guitar is in a weird tuning, but I can't tell
for sure.]
[The E* chords alternate between Esus4 and E.]
[Thanks to Pete Smith (PWSmith853@aol.com) for the capo information and
the inspiration to write this one down.]
A - Asus4/F# A - E A - Asus4/F# A - E
[intro; see tab at end for details]
A - Asus4/F# A - E A - Asus4/F# A - E
[intro]
A D/F# E* E*
She used to watch him from afar
A D/F# E E
She used to dream about him, and she'd wish upon a star that
A D/F# E* E*
One day he'd want her for his own
A D/F# E A
Throw caution to the wind, and with a grin he'd take her home
D E A D
She's something of a dreamer, something of a fool
D E F#m E [note: no A chord here]
Something of a heartbreak when she gives her heart to you
And she used to hear his voice at night
A sweet whisper from the shadows, dancing with the back porch light
And she used to feel him in the wind
His warm breath upon her neck, and goosebumps up and down her skin
D E A D
She's something of a dreamer, something of a fool
D E F#m E - A
Something of a heartbreak when she gives her heart to you
D E A D D E F#m E - A7
[guitar solo]
D E A E - A
Well she should have known by now, but that's the foolish part of her
D E F#m E - A
She should have seen somehow, but a dreamer's never cured
D E A E - A
When heartbreak fast approaches, when a love ain't truly love
D E F#m E - A
He promised wine and roses, and she thought that was enough
She's something of a dreamer, something of a fool
Something of a heartbreak when she gives her heart to you
She's something of a dreamer, something of a fool
Something of a heartbreak when she gives her heart to you
She's something of a dreamer, something of a fool
Something of a heartbreak when she gives her heart to you
A - Asus4/F# A - E A - Asus4/F# A - E
[instrumental, same as intro; comes in on the word "you" (2 beats missing!)]
A - Asus4/F# A - E A - Asus4/F# A - E - A.
[instrumental]
INTRO (MCC's part):
[This tab is assuming that she uses normal tuning (capo on the 4th fret).]
A Asus4/F# A E A Asus4/F# A E
E ----------------|------0---------|----------------|------0---------|
B ----------------|------------0---|----------------|------------0---|
G ------2-------2-|----2-------1---|------2-------2-|----2-------1---|
D ----2-------2---|------------2---|----2-------2---|------------2---|
A 0---------------|0---------------|0---------------|0---------------|
E --------0=2-----|--------1-------|--------0=2-----|--------0-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
GUITAR SOLO (John Jennings):
C D G C
E ------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ------|----------------|------------1---|1---------------|----------------|
G ------|----0-0-----0-2-|----------2---4-|--4-0-----------|----------------|
D ----0-|2-4-------4-----|------0-4-------|------0-----0-4-|2=0-------------|
A 2=3---|----------------|----------------|--------2=3-----|----3-----------|
E ------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
. ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
C D Em D G7
E --------0-2=3-3-|--2-------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----1-3---------|------3---------|--------0-1-3-0-|1---------------|
G --0-------------|----------2/4---|----0-2---------|--2---0---------|
D ----------------|----------------|----------------|----4-----3---2-|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
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Stones In The Road
[Each chord is half a measure, except chords joined by a hyphen
(e.g., C - G/B) are a half measure total.]
[I'm not quite sure about some of these chords, especially the Am7/G,
which I play as 302013. And the C might be C(9) (x32030). Also, some
of the other chords have non-root bass notes, like D/A or C/E, but I'm
not going to try to figure out which ones.]
[Actually in Bb; capo 3.]
n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c. n.c.
[intro: acoustic guitar; see tab at end]
G D C C D D Am7/G G
[intro: all instruments]
G D C C D D G G
[intro: all instruments]
G D C C D D Am7/G G
When we were young, we pledged allegiance every morning of our lives
G D C C D D Am7/G G
The classroom rang with children's voices under teacher's watchful eye
G D C C D D Am7/G G
We learned about the world around us at our desks and at dinnertime
G D C C D D Am7/G G
Reminded of the starving children, we cleaned our plates with guilty minds
C C D D G C - G D D
And the stones in the road shone like diamonds in the dust
Am Am Em Em C G D D
And then a voice called to us to make our way back home
When I was ten, my father held me on his shoulders above the crowd
To see a train draped in mourning pass slowly through our town
His widow kneeled with all their children at the sacred burial ground
And the TV glowed that long hot summer with all the cities burning down
And the stones in the road flew out beneath our bicycle tires
Worlds removed from all those fires as we raced each other home
[guitar solo; same as intro.]
[piano solo; use verse chords.]
C(9) C(9) C(9) C(9) D D G G
And now we drink our coffee on the run, we climb that ladder rung by rung
C(9) C(9) C(9) C(9) Em C D D D D
We are the daughters and the sons, and here's the line that's missing
The starving children have been replaced by souls out on the street
We give a dollar when we pass, and hope our eyes don't meet
We pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suite
We kiss your ass, we make you hold, we doctor the receipt
And the stones in the road fly out from beneath our wheels
Another day, another deal, before we get back home
And the stones in the road leave a mark from whence they came
A thousand points of light or shame, baby, I don't know
[repeat guitar solo three times; end on G.]
ACOUSTIC GUITAR INTRO AND SOLO:
Note: let all the notes ring as much as possible.
E --|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B --|----0-3---3-----|------------3---|------3-------1-|--0---0---------|
G --|0-----2---0-----|--0-----------0-|--0-2-2---0---0-|--0---0---------|
D 0-|--0-----------4-|------2---------|4-------------0-|--0---0-------0-|
A --|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E --|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----0-3---------|------------3---|----------------|----------------|
G 0-----2---0-----|--0-----------0-|--0-2-0-------0-|----------------|
D --0-----------4-|------2---------|4-----0---4---0-|----------------|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
PIANO SOLO (arranged for guitar, obviously):
E ----------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
B 3-----3---3---3-|3-----------3--3--|3-----------3--3--|1--0--------------|
G ----------------|---0--0--0--------|---0--0--0--------|------0--2-----2--|
D ----------------|triplet--triplet--|triplet--triplet--|triplet-----2-----|
A ----------------|------------------|------------------|---------triplet--|
E ----------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
E ------------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ------------------|----------------|------1---------|----------------|
G 2--0--------0--2--|0---------------|--0-2---------0-|----------------|
D ------0--4--------|----------0=2---|4-----------4---|----------------|
A triplet--triplet--|--------------3-|----------------|----------------|
E ------------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
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Tender When I Want To Be
(Intro) F Bb C F Bb/C, F Bb C F
(STOP) F
(1st Verse) I have a heart that's proud you bet.
Bb
I have a mind that won't forget,
C F
And I have arms that are strong and yet, tender when they want to be.
Bb C F
You can be the will that finds the way,
Bb
You can be the one who saves the day,
C F
But show me tender when its's time to say. Exactly how it ought to be.
Gm C
(Chorus) And I never would have known it Dar,
F Am
If I hadn't known about you.
Bb C
You said everyone can be a rock and, roll like a river too.
(STOP) F
(2nd Verse) Well something happens when you find someone
Bb
Makes you feel like you can do no wrong.
Gm Am
You don't have to take the whole world on,
Bb F Bb F
Just be tender when you want to be. Sha La La La La La La
(Lead) F Bb C F Bb/C, F Bb C F
Gm
(Chorus) And I never would have known it Babe,
Am
If I hadn't known about you.
Bb C
You said everyone can be a rock and, roll like a river too.
F Bb
(3rd V.) So let the waters carry us away, wave goodbye to the old parade.
C F
Baby when we're unafraid, to be tender when we want to be.
Bb F Bb
All the waters wash our cares away, all that we can see are better days.
Gm Am Bb F F/C
Don't ever let me hesitate, to be tender when I want to be.
F C F/C F C F/C F C F/C(X4)
Sha La La La La La La Sha La La La La La La Sha La La La La La La
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The Bug
[Each chord is one measure, except two chords joined by a hyphen
are one measure _total_.]
D7 D7 D7 D7 D7 D7 D7 D7
[intro]
D7 D7 D7 D7
Well it's a strange old game, you learn it slow
D7 D7 D7 D7
One step forward and it's back you go
D7 D7 D7 D7
You're standing on the throttle, you're standing on the brake
D7 D7
In the groove till you make a mistake
D7 D7 D7 G7
Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug
D7 D7 D7 C - G
Sometimes it all comes together baby, sometimes you're just a fool in love
D7 D7 D7 G7
Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger baby, sometimes you're the ball
D7 D7 D7 C - G
Sometimes it all comes together baby, sometimes you're gonna lose it all
You gotta know happy, you gotta know glad
Because you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad
When you're rippin' and a-ridin' and you're coming on strong
You start slippin' and a-slidin' and it all goes wrong
Because sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug
Sometimes it all falls together baby, sometimes you're a fool in love
Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger baby, sometimes you're the ball
Sometimes it all comes together baby, sometimes you're gonna lose it all
A7 A7(sus4) A7 D7 A7 A7 A7 C - G D7 D7 D7 D7
[guitar solo]
One day you got the glory, and then you got none
One day you're a diamond, and then you're a stone
Everything can change in the blink of an eye
So let the good times roll before we say goodbye
Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug
Sometimes it all comes together baby, sometimes you're a fool in love
Sometimes you're the Louisville Slugger baby, sometimes you're the ball
Sometimes it all comes together baby, sometimes you're gonna lose it all
Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug
Sometimes it all comes together baby, sometimes you're a fool in love
Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug
Sometimes it all comes together baby, sometimes you're just a fool in love
D7 D7 D7 G7
[repeat and fade]
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The End Of My Pirate Days
[I _think_ these are the chords Mary Chapin uses. She might use a
non-standard tuning, which would mean these are wrong. But I think
these sound pretty good. Feedback is appreciated.]
[Actually in G; capo 3.]
[E=022100; Asus9=x02200; Bsus=x24400; C#m7=x46600.]
E E Asus9 Asus9 Bsus Bsus E E
[intro]
E E Asus9 Asus9
The night is soft and silent, new moon at my door
Bsus Bsus E E
There's nothing near as quiet as the light I'm looking for
E E Asus9 Asus9
And last time that it appeared he was lying next to me
Bsus Bsus E E
Last time I felt this near to whispered ecstacy
C#m7 Asus9 Bsus E - E/D#
And those who need adventure, they can sail the seven seas
C#m7 Asus9 E B
And those who search for treasure, they must live on grander dreams
E E Asus9 Asus9
We rose and fell just like the tides, he filled my heart and soul and I
Bsus Bsus Asus9 Asus9
Buried all my dreams for someone else to find in my pirate days
C#m7 Asus9 Bsus E - E/D# C#m7 Asus9 Bsus E
[instrumental]
E E Asus9 Asus9
This world is kinder to the kind that won't look back
Bsus Bsus C#m7 Asus9 - Bsus
They are the chosen few, among us now, unbowed somehow
E E Asus9 Asus9
And one day he turned to me, and before I took one breath
Bsus Bsus E E - E/D#
I knew I would only see his shadow in what light was left
C#m7 Asus9 Bsus E - E/D#
And those who need adventure, they can sail the seven seas
C#m7 Asus9 E B
And those who search for treasure, they must live on grander dreams
E E Asus9 Asus9
And if I've seen his face since then, it's only been in dreams my friend
Bsus Bsus Asus9 Asus9
Since I came to the end of my pirate days
E E Asus9 Asus9
And if I've called his name since then, it's only been in dreams my friend
Bsus Bsus Asus9 Asus9
So I came to the end of my pirate days
E E Asus9 Asus9 Bsus Bsus Asus9 Asus9
[instrumental; repeat and fade]
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The Hard Way
[These are the chords for the acoustic (rhythm) guitar; capo at the 2nd
fret. The electric guitars play it in D with no capo. Frankly, either way
is pretty easy, but I wrote the chords down for the acoustic. The tab at
the end is for the electrics.]
[It sounds okay to play E7 instead of G#dim7.]
[I play C5 as x3x013 and G#dim7 as xx0101 or x20101.]
[Each chord is half a measure.]
G Am(4) F6 G G Am(4) F6 G C C C/E F C C C/E F
[intro: electric guitar(s)] [whole band]
C C C/E F C C C/E F
Show a little inspiration, show a little spark
C C C/E F C C C/E F
And show that things that drew me to you and stole my heart
C C C/E F C C C/E F
And tell me something I don't know instead of everything I do
C C C/E F C C C/E F
And look at me as if I mean something to you
G G G#dim7 G#dim7 Am Am D7/F# D7/F#
Our hearts are beating while we sleep, but while we're wide awake
F C5 C5 C5
You know the world won't stop, and actions speak louder
F C5 C5 C5
Listen to your heart, and what your heart might say
G Am F G C C C/E F
Everything we got, we got the hard way
Show a little passion, baby, show a little style
And show the knack for knowing when and the gift for knowing how
And have a little trust in us when fear obscures the path
You know we got this far, darling, not by luck, but by never turning back
Some will call on destiny, but I just call on faith
That the world won't stop, and actions speak louder
Listen to your heart, to what your heart might say
G Am F G C C C C
Everything we got, we got the hard way
Em7 Em7 F F C C G Gsus-G
Caught up in our little lives, there's not a lot left over
Em7 Em7 Am7 Am7 F(9) F(9) Gsus G
I see what's missing in your eyes; you're searching for that field of clover
C C C/E F C C C/E F C C C/E F C C C/E F
[instrumental]
So show a little inspiration, show a little spark
Show the world a little light when you show it your heart
We've got two lives, one we're given and the other one we make
And the world won't stop, and actions speak louder
Listen to your heart, and your heart might say
G Am F G G Am F G
Everything we got, we got the hard (everything we got, we got the hard way)
G Am F G C C C/E F
Everything we got, we got the hard way
C C C/E F C C C/E F
(because the world won't stop) hang on, baby...
C C C/E F
[instrumental; repeat and fade]
INTRO TAB:
[The high notes are played by one electric guitar, the low notes by another;
no capo on the electrics.]
A Bm(4) G6 A A Bm(4) G6 A
E ----0-------0---|----0--------0--|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
B --2---2---3---3-|--3---3----2--2-|--2---2---3---3-|--3---3---2---2-|
G 2-------4-------|0--------2------|2-------4-------|0-------2-------|
D ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A ----------------|--------------5-|7-7-7-7-9-9-9-5-|5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-|
E ----------------|--------------3-|5-5-5-5-7-7-7-3-|3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-|
* * * * * * * * (accents)
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ (timing)
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The Last Word
[This song is weird. It's in Eb, but the electric guitar in the intro
is playing what sound like open strings. I think that the electric is
tuned down a half step. I suspect that Mary Chapin plays it in C with
a capo on the 3rd fret, or in D with a capo at the first fret, which is
how I've written it here.]
D A G A D A G A
You can have it, I don't want it, and when you've got it, I'll be gone
Bm A D G D A D - Dsus D
It won't matter what you're saying when the damage has all been done
Em7 D/F# G A
Can't seem to keep the faith, as if that's all I need to do
Em7 D/F# G A - Asus - A
I'd rather walk away than take what belongs to you
You can have it, I don't want it, and when you've got it, I'll be gone
It won't matter what you're saying when the damage has all been done
Some words will cut you down like you were only in the way
Why should I stand ths ground, it won't hurt as much to say
You can have it, I don't want it, and when you've got it, I'll be gone
It won't matter what you're saying when the damage has all been done
Sometimes we're blinded by the very thing we need to see
I finally realized that you need it more than you need me
D A G A D A G A
You can have it, I don't want it, and when you've got it, I'll be gone
Bm A D G D A Bm G
It won't matter what you're saying when the damage has all been done
D A G(9) Asus - A
The damage has all been done
D A G A D A G A Bm A D G D A D.
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The Moon And St. Christopher
* Tuning: DADGBC (yes, C)
* Actually in F; capo 5.
* Each chord is half a measure.
* No guarantees.
CHORDS:
C: x32010 C(9)/E: 230010 Dm7(4): 003030
Dm7: 033210 Em: 22200x Em7: 25500x
F(9): 333010 G: 55500x or 55000x Gsus: 5500x0
Am: x02210
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) C(9)/E G
[intro]
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) C(9)/E G
[intro]
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) C(9)/E G
When I was young I spoke like a child, and I saw with a child's eyes
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) Gsus G
And an open door was to a girl like the stars are to the sky
Am F(9) Em Am F(9) Em Gsus G
It's funny how the world lives up to all your expectations
Dm7 Dm C(9)/E C(9)/E F(9) F(9) Gsus G
With adventures for the stout of heart, and the lure of the open spaces
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) C(9)/E G
There's 2 lanes running down this road, whichever side you're on
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) Gsus G
Accounts for where you want to go, or what you're running from
Am F(9) Em Am Dm7 C(9)/E F(9) F(9) F(9) F(9)
Back when darkness overtook me on a blind man's curve
C Dm7(4) G G C Dm7(4) G G
I relied upon the moon, I relied upon the moon
C Dm7(4) G G
I relied upon the moon and Saint
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) C(9)/E G
Christopher [instrumental]
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) C(9)/E G
[instrumental]
Am F(9) Em Am F(9) Em Gsus G
[instrumental]
C Dm7(4) G G F(9) F(9) F(9) F(9)
[instrumental]
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) C(9)/E G
Now I've paid my dues cuz I have owed them, but I've paid a price sometimes
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) Gsus G
For being such a stubborn woman in such stubborn times
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) C(9)/E G
Now I've paid my dues cuz I have owed them, but I've paid a price sometimes
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) Gsus G
For being such a stubborn woman in such stubborn times
Am F(9) Em Am F(9) Em Gsus G
Now I have run from the arms of lovers, I've run from the eyes of friends
Dm7(4) Dm7(4) C(9)/E C(9)/E F(9) F(9) Gsus G Gsus G
I have run from the hands of kindness, I've run just because I can
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) C(9)/E G
But now I'm grown and I speak like a woman and I see with a woman's eyes
C C Dm7(4) Dm7(4) F(9) F(9) Gsus G
And an open door is to me now like the saddest of goodbyes
Am F(9) Em Am Dm7 C(9)/E F(9) F(9) F(9) G
It's too late for turning back, I pray for the heart and the nerve
C Dm7(4) G G C Dm7(4) G G
And I rely upon the moon, I rely upon the moon
C Dm7(4) G G C Dm7 G G
I rely upon the moon and Saint Christopher
C Dm7(4) G G C Dm7(4) G Em7
I rely upon the moon, I rely upon the moon
Am Dm7 G G F(9) F(9)
I rely upon the moon and Saint Christopher
C(9)/E C(9)/E Dm7 C(9)/E F(9).
to be my guide.
Here's some tab for the intro...where I put asterisks, that means fill in
a couple extra notes; I wasn't sure which ones to put in.
C Dm7(4) F(9) C(9)/E G
C ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ------1-1---0---|--------3---1---|--------1---0---|------1-0-------|
G 0---0-----------|------0---------|------0---------|----------0---0-|
D --2-------------|----3-----------|----3-----------|----0-------0---|
A 3---------------|--0-------------|--3-------------|--3-------------|
D ----------------|0---------------|3---------------|2-------5-------|
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The More Things Change
[Capo 3]
[Each chord is one measure]
[Actually, the Em's almost sound like E5's and the A's in the verse
sound like A5's...]
Em Em Em Em
[intro]
Em Em
Well I think of you sometimes at night
Em Em
And sometimes it's still the same
Em Em B7 B7
The way that it was when I was the keeper of your flame
Em Em
We all have our ghosts, we all have our doubts
A G
I'm no different with you or without
Em B7 Em Em
But one thing's certain: only the names have changed
And I think of you sometimes baby
When an old friend gives a call
And to hear us talk you'd think I felt nothing at all
'Cause nothing remains that used to be yours
We all have our way of closing the door
But it takes some time to get up when you fall
A G
But I'm the same sweet girl you couldn't get enough of
Em A
Way back when you pledged your love
Em Em B7 B7
And you'd drive to find me through the pouring rain
A G
Now I hear all about your running around
Em A
Man you're a legend all over town
Em B7 Em Em
The more things change, the more they remain the same
[Guitar solo, same chords as verse]
Sometimes I wonder if you've ever heard
The sound of a broken heart
It ain't real pretty, it ain't the thing the nice folks talk about
And the hardest thing you'll ever have to do
Is face the one who's done it to you
His eye's like an angel's, they're so devout
But I'm the same sweet girl you couldn't get enough of
Way back when you pledged your love
And you'd drive to find me through the pouring rain
Now I hear all about your running around
Man you're a legend all over town
The more things change, the more they remain the same
Now I hear all about your running around
Man you're a legend all over town
The more things change, the more they remain the same
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This Is Love
[Capo 5; tune guitar to DADF#AD (open D). I'm not 100% sure of the tuning,
but I'm at least 90% sure.]
[D=000000; D(9)=002000; Dsus=000100; G(9)=020100;
Em7(4)=220100; D/F#=400300; Gsus9=550300; Asus=x02300.]
[It sounds like there's a Bm chord in the guitar solo. If so, play it
like this: x20020.]
D D(9) Dsus D D D(9) Dsus D
[intro]
G(9) G(9) G(9) G(9) D D(9) Dsus D
[intro]
D D(9) Dsus Dsus
If you ever need to hear a voice in the middle of the night
D D(9) Dsus Dsus
when it seems so black outside that you can't remember
G(9) G(9) G(9) G(9) D D(9) Dsus D
light ever shone on you or the ones you love in this or another lifetime
And the voice you need to hear is the true and the trusted kind, with a soft
familiar rhythm in these swirling, unsure times, when the waves are lapping in
and you're not sure you can swim, well here's the lifeline
Em7(4) Em7(4) Em7(4) Em7(4)
If you ever need to feel a hand take up your own
D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F#
When you least expect but want it more than you've ever known
Gsus9 Gsus9 Gsus9 Gsus9 Asus Asus Asus Asus
Baby, here's that hand, and baby's here's my voice that's calling
D D(9) Dsus D Em7(4) Em7(4) Asus Asus
This is love, all that ever was and will be
D D(9) Dsus D D D(9) Dsus D
This is love
If you ever need some proof that time can heal your wounds, just step
inside my heart and walk around these rooms; where the shadows used to be,
you can feel as well as see how peace can hover
Time's been here to fix what's broken with its power and the love that
smashed us both to bits spent its last few hours calling out your name,
and I thought, this is the kind of pain from which we don't recover
But I'm standing here now with my heart held out to you
You would have thought a miracle was all that got us through
Well baby, all I know, all I know is I'm still standing
And this is love, all that ever was and will be
This is love, standing up for you baby, standing up for me
G(9) G(9) G(9) G(9)
And I see you still and there's this catch in my
Asus Asus Asus Asus
throat; And I just swallow hard till it leaves me
G(9) G(9) G(9) G(9)
There's nothing in this world that can change what we know
Asus Asus Asus Asus G(9) G(9) G(9) G(9)
Still I know I am here if you ever need me
D D(9) Dsus D Em7(4) Em7(4) Asus Asus
And this is love [guitar solo]
D D(9) Dsus D Em7(4) Em7(4) Asus Asus
[guitar solo]
D D(9) Dsus D Em7(4) Em7(4) Asus Asus
[guitar solo]
Bm? Bm? Dsus D Em7(4) Em7(4) Asus Asus
[guitar solo]
D D(9) Dsus D D D(9) Dsus D
[instrumental]
If you ever think of me, let it be around twilight, when the world has
settled down, and the last round of sunlight is waning in the sky as you
sit and watch the night descending
A car will pass out front with lovers at the wheel, a dog will bark out
back, and children's voices peal over and under the air, you've been there,
lost in the remembering
If you ever wish for things that are only in the past
Just remember that the wrong things aren't supposed to last
Baby, it's over and done, the rest is gonna come when you let it
And this is love, all that ever was and will be
This is love, when you let it baby, if you let it now
This is love, all that ever was and can be
This is love
[Repeat D D(9) Dsus D, and fade.]
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This Shirt
[Capo 5; each chord is one measure]
[C=x32010; C(4)=x33010; C(9)/B=x20010; Am=x02210; Am/G=3x2210;
Fmaj9=1x3010; G6=3x0000; Em=0x2000; C/G=3x2010; D9/F#=2x0210.]
C C(4) C C(9)/B C C(4) C C(9)/B
[intro]
C C(4) C C(9)/B
This shirt is old and faded, all the color's washed away
C C(4) C C(9)/B
I've had it more damn years than I can count anyway
Am Am/G Fmaj9 G6
I wear it beneath my jacket, with the collar turned up high
Am Am/G Fmaj9 G6 C C(4) C C(9)/B
So old I should replace it, but I'm not about to try
This shirt's got silver buttons, and a place upon the sleeve
Where I used to set my heart up right there where anyone could see
This shirt is the one I wore to every boring high school dance
Where the boys ignored the girls and we all pretended to like the band
Em Fmaj9 C G6
This shirt was a pillow for my head on a train through Italy
Em Fmaj9 C G6
This shirt was a blanket beneath the love we made in Argeles
Em Fmaj9 C G6
This shirt was lost for three whole days in a town near Buffalo
Am C/G D9/F# G6 C C(4) C C(9)/B
Till I found the locker key in a downtown Trailways bus depot
This shirt is the one I lent you, and when you gave it back
It had a rip inside the sleeve where you rolled your cigarettes
It was the place I put my heart, now look at where you put a tear
I forgave your thoughtlessness, but not the boy who put it there
This shirt was the place your cat decided to give birth to five
And we stayed up all night watching, and we wept when the last one died
This shirt is just an old faded piece of cotton
Shining like memories inside those silver buttons
This shirt is a grand old relic with a grand old history
I wear it now for Sunday chores, cleaning house and raking leaves
I wear it beneath my jacket with the collar turned up high
So old I should replace it, but I'm not about to try
C C(4) C C(9)/B
[repeat and fade]
TAB:
[Note that this tablature is just four-measure-long PIECES of tab
that you string together to play the whole song.]
[All the chords have the same picking pattern with the thumb playing
an alternating bass line.]
C C(4) C C(9)/B
E ------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|
B ----------1-----|----------1-----|----------1-----|----------1-----|
G --0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|
D ----2-------2---|----3-------3---|----2-------2---|----2-------2---|
A 3-------3-------|3-------3-------|3-------3-------|0-------0-------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
(This shirt is old and faded, all the colors washed away...)
Am Am/G Fmaj9 G6
E ------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|
B ----------1-----|----------1-----|----------1-----|----------0-----|
G --2-----------2-|--2-----------2-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|
D ----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----3-------3---|----0-------0---|
A 0-------0-------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|3-------3-------|1-------1-------|3-------3-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
(I wear it beneath my jacket, with the collar turned up high...)
Em Fmaj9 C G6
E ------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|
B ----------0-----|----------1-----|----------1-----|----------0-----|
G --0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|
D ----2-------2---|----3-------3---|----2-------2---|----0-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|3-------3-------|----------------|
E 0-------0-------|1-------1-------|----------------|3-------3-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
(This shirt was a pillow for my head on a train through Italy...)
Am C/G D9/F# G6
E ------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|
B ----------1-----|----------1-----|----------1-----|----------0-----|
G --2-----------2-|--0-----------0-|--2-----------2-|--0-----------0-|
D ----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
A 0-------0-------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|3-------3-------|2-------2-------|3-------3-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . . ^ . ^ .
(Till I found the locker key in a downtown Trailways bus depot...)
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Too Tired
[Capo 2.]
[Each chord is half of a measure]
D D D D D D D D
[intro]
D D D D
Too tired to fight so I just gave in
C G/B D/A D/A
Last night I slept in your arms again
D D D D
And I felt my heart next to your skin
Am7 Am7 D D
Beatin' like crazy
D D D D
Been runnin' from something I can't explain
C G/B D/A D/A
It ain't just anger, it ain't just pain
D D D D
But it goes away when you call my name
Am7 Am7 D D
Callin' me baby
C G/B D/A D D D D D D D D
But you ain't no good for a girl like me
I was doin' fine when I first met you
Swept me off my feet, next thing I knew
I was wonderin' where you'd gone off to
Leavin' me lonely
This town's too small for your kind of games
Pointin' fingers, namin' names
But I'm so far gone I'll take anything
That you can give me
C G/B D/A D D D7 D7
Still you ain't no good for a girl like me
G G G G D D D D
Last night I felt that I couldn't stand no more
G G G G A7 A7 A7 A7
But I found myself standin' right here by your door
Too tired to care that you're bad for me
My heart says stay, but my head says leave
But I can't get far when I'm on my knees
Begging you baby
C G/B D/A D D D D D D D D
You ain't no good for a girl like me
D D D D C G/B D/A D/A
[instrumental]
D D D D Am7 Am7 D D
[instrumental]
C G/B D/A D D D7 D7
[instrumental]
Last night I felt that I couldn't stand no more
But I found myself standin' right here by your door
Too tired to fight so I just gave in
Last night I slept in your arms again
And I felt my heart next to your skin
Beatin' like crazy
Beatin' like crazy
Am7 Am7 G G G G D D D D C G/B D.
Beatin' like crazy Hey! [instrumental ending...]
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Walking Through The Fire
[This song is actually in the key of A, then it switches to B; I'm guessing
that Mary Chapin plays it in G & A with a capo on the second fret.]
[On a single guitar, you can do a pretty good rendition of the descending
pattern in C(9)-D by playing C(9) as x30010 and then changing to x30000
right before the D. For D(9) (in the latter part of the song), play it
as xx0230, and then xx0220 right before the E.]
[Each chord is half a measure.]
G G C(9) D G G C(9) D G G C(9) D G G C(9) D
[intro]
G G C(9) D G G C(9) D
When you set a match to your heart, fueling it with bitterness and doubt
G G C(9) D G G C(9) D
That's the place that once it starts, no amount of tears can put out
Em7 Em7 D D C C D D
I know you're scared, but no one's spared when you play with matches
G G C(9) D
You got me walking through fire
G G C(9) D
You got me walking through fire
Maybe you've been burned by lovers, maybe you've been scarred by the pain
But baby, I'm not like the others, drawing moths to a flame
Spite is like a spark, crackling in the dark, consuming all it catches
And you got me walking through fire
You got me walking through fire to get to you
Got me walking through fire (walking through fire)
You got me walking through fire (walking through fire)
F F G G Bb Bb C F
You can see the toll it's taking, you can feel the faith it's shaking
Cm7 Cm7 F F Bb Bb D D
You can hear the heart it's breaking now
Em7 Em7 D D C C D D Bb Bb C C F F Esus E
[guitar solo]
A A D(9) E A A D(9) E
[instrumental lead-in to last verse; note key change]
A A D(9) E A A D(9) E
Baby, I've been burned by the fever, I've been scorched by desire
A A D(9) E A A D(9) E
But baby, I am not your deceiver or your eloquent liar
F#m F#m E E D D Bm7 E
Your jealous heart is tearing us apart, turning love to ashes
A A D(9) E
When you got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire to get to you
Got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire (walking through fire)
You've got me walking through fire (walking through fire)
G G D(9) E
As the flames shoot higher
A A D(9) E
You got me walking through fire (through fire), walking
A A D(9) E A A D(9) E A A D(9) E
[instrumental]
Gsus9 Gsus9 Gsus9 Gsus9
[fade]
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What You Didn't Say
[Actually in Bb; capo 3]
[Each chord is one measure]
[Some of the C's might be C(9)'s, among other variations...]
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6 C C Gmaj7 G6
[intro]
Gmaj7 G6
I can read your eyes just like a book
Gmaj7 G6
You tell me different, but I know that look
C C Gmaj7 G6
And I don't have to guess what's between the lines
So what in the world am I still doing here
You push me away when I get too near
Saying love's too simple to analyze
D C
So why do I feel confused
D C
Why do I feel so used
C C Am
Like a worn-out thought you threw away
D Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6
It wasn't what you said, it's what you didn't say
Where are the windows, where are the doors?
I haven't the key to your heart anymore
I haven't a clue to what's gone wrong
'Cause you look at me sometimes as if I weren't there
You say you're listening, but you never hear
The strains of silence have grown so strong
I never wanted to doubt you
But I'd be better off without you
I'm no good at looking the other way
It wasn't what you said, it's what you didn't say
Em C
So look at me one last time
D G
With eyes that still know how to shine
Em C
Hold me like you won't let go
Am D Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6 (etc.)
But you let go anyway
No one belongs where they're not wanted
You're just a ghost, and my heart is haunted
When I said goodbye, you didn't even beg me to stay
It wasn't what you said, it's what you didn't say
No baby, it wasn't what you said, it's what you didn't say
Tab for intro and verse (not every note is included):
Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 G6
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G 0---0-----------|----0-----------|----0-----------|----0-----------|
D --0---4---------|--0--02-----0---|--0---4---------|--0--02-----0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E 3---------------|3-------3-------|3---------------|3-------3-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
C C Gmaj7 G6
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ------1---------|------1---0-----|----------------|----------------|
G ----0-------0---|----0-----------|----0-----------|----0-----------|
D --2-------------|--2-------------|--0---4---------|--0--02-----0---|
A 3---------------|3---------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|----------------|3---------------|3-------3-------|
^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
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When She's Gone
[Actually in F; capo 5.]
[The lines that are just F and C actually have some F(9)'s and C(9)'s in
them; that's all spelled out at the end.]
F C
She threw her purse upon the bed
F C
She looked around and shook her head
F C
There's really nothing left, she said
G C
There's nothing I ain't done
F C
She wore your favorite dress tonight
F C
She hoped her hair would catch the light
F C
And you just sat there gettin' tight
G C
On double shots of rum
Am F
You don't care what people say
G C
They're gonna say it anyway
Am F
You don't hear what you can't use
G C
It's always been the same old news
Am F
You don't beg and you don't plead
G C
Or miss a thing that you don't need
F C
She knew by the way you kissed her
G C
When she's gone, you won't miss her
F C F C F C G C
[instrumental]
Morning comes on an old cat's paws
And when the sun hits the walls
The light's as bright as it ever was
After or before
And you wince as waking pounds your head
And you drag your arm across the bed
And the tangled sheets and the twisted spread
Fall onto the floor
And the kitchen table finds you silent
If you had a thought, now you can't find it
You take a long drag on your smoke
And taste your coffee growing cold
She didn't beg and you didn't plead
She knew exactly how to leave
The way she knew when you kissed her
When she's gone, you won't miss her
She didn't beg and you didn't plead
She knew exactly when to leave
The way she knew as you kissed her
When she's gone, you won't miss her
F C F C F C G C
[Instrumental; repeat and fade]
Here's the strumming pattern for most of the song. The funny-looking
lines are musical notes. The numbers above the notes are just the relative
durations, for the benefit of the notationally impaired.
The first chord of each line is actually just a single note, or perhaps
just the two or three lowest strings. The last C(9) in the first two lines
is only played sometimes; other times, it's just an eighth note at the end
of the measure, and other times there's _no_ chord after the C*.
F: x33211 or 133211 (fret the E string with your thumb)
F(9): x33011 or 133011 (fret the E string with your thumb)
C(9): 330010
C*: hammer-on (quickly) from 330010 to 332010
C: 332010
G: 320003
Am: x02210
2 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 2
| +--+--+--+ | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / . / . /
F F F F F(9) F(9) C(9) C* C(9)
2 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 2
| +--+--+--+ | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / . / . /
F F F F F(9) F(9) C(9) C* C(9)
2 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 2
| +--+--+--+ | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / . / . /
F F F F F(9) F(9) C(9) C* C(9)
2 1 1 2 2 3 2 1 1 1
| +--+ | | | | +--+--+
| | | | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / . / / / /
G G G G G C C C C C
For the other parts (e.g., the Am F G C part), it's never very complex;
mostly just like this:
2 1 1 2 1 1
| +--+ | +--+
| | | | | |
/ / / / / /
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Why Walk When You Can Fly
[I've no idea how Mary Chapin Carpenter plays this song. In concert, it
looked like she was playing with a capo on the 7th fret. Since the song
is in B, that would mean she was playing the chords in E. The only way I
can picture that is if she was using chords like x46600 for C#m, a la "The
End of My Pirate Days." I do know for sure that she wasn't using nice,
normal chords. Maybe her capo was at 6 or 9, or maybe she had her guitar
tuned funny. If anyone finds out, please let me know.]
[I'm going to write these chords down in the key of G, since I know that's
where John Jennings played them, with a capo on the 4th fret.]
n.c.
In this world there's a whole lot of trouble, baby
n.c.
In this world there's a whole lot of pain
n.c.
In this world there's a whole lot of trouble
n.c.
But a whole lot of ground to gain
n.c.
Why take when you could be giving, why watch as the world goes by
n.c.
It's a hard enough life to be living, why walk when you can fly
D G C C D G C C D G C C Em Em C C
[instrumental]
D G C C D G C C D G C C Em Em C C
[instrumental]
C C G G Am G/B C C D G C C Em Em C C
[instrumental]
D G C C
In this world there's a whole lot of sorrow
D G C C
In this world there's a whole lot of shame
D G C C
In this world there's a whole lot of sorrow
Em Em C C
And a whole lotta ground to gain
C C G G Am G/B C C
When you spend your whole life wishing, wanting and wondering why
D G C C Em Em C C
It's a long enough life to be living, why walk when you can fly
C C G G Am G/B C C D G C C Em Em C C
[instrumental]
D G C C D G C C D G C C Em Em C C
[instrumental]
D G C C
In this world there's a whole lot of cold
D G C C
In this world there's a whole lot of blame
D G C C
In this world you've a soul for a compass
Em Em C C
And a heart for a pair of wings
C C G G Am G/B C C
There's a star on the far horizon, rising bright in an azure sky
D G C C Em Em C C
For the rest of the time that you're given, why walk when you can fly
D G C C D G C C D G C C Em Em C C
high... [instrumental]
D G C C D G C C D G C C Em Em C C
[instrumental]
D G C C D G C C D G C C Em Em C C.
[instrumental]
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You Win Again
I see this song is already in the archive, but it's missing those really
cool solos! Back when I was still taking guitar lessons my teacher,
Chris Jackson, figured this out and it's so much fun to play once you
get the hang of it. Hope you enjoy!
Special Notes:
1) When I tab something like 9(10), that means to bend the string so
that it sounds as though you're playing in the tenth fret on that string
2) When I show a 9(10)(9), the (9) means to bend the string back down
to it's original position, but not to pick the note
3) And one thing I'm not sure exactly on how to best show on here is
when you bend up 9(10) and then you want to pick that note while it's
still bent, and for my purposes I use an * to show that. If you have
any better ideas, let me know.
First Solo:
|---------------------------------------------------------------------7-------------
|----------------------------------------8-10-----------------------7---10p7-10(10)-
|-7-7---7---9p7-9(10)(9)p7-9(10)*10(9)p7------9(10)(9)-7p-7---9(10)-----------------
|-----9---9-------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-10p9-7----------------10-12-12(13)*13(12)-12-10-17(18)(17)-15h17p15-14-15-17p14-15-
|--------10---------/12--------------------------------------------------------------
|-----------9/12-11------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Second Solo:
|-------10-10-12(13)*13(12)-9-10--12-10-12(13)(12)-10h12p10-9-10------------------
|-10h12----------------------------------------------------------12---------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------11-9----------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------11-12-12-
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-12---------------------------------14(14
1/2)(14)-12----12----------------
|-14(15)(14)----14(15)-14(15)(14)----------------------14----14h16p14-12-11-
|------------12-------------------12----------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-9----9------7----7---9(10)(9)-7-9(10)(9)-7---7p6----------7-9p7-------7---9-
|---11---12-----/9---9-----------------------9-----9p7----9-------9p7h9---9---
|-----------5------------------------------------------10---------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------7------------------------------10-12-9h12p9---------10-10-
|-------7---7-10(11)-10(11)*11(10)-8-/12--------------10--/12-------
|-9(10)-------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------------17-17--------17-17--------17-17--------17-17--------17-17-
|-17p15--17(18)-------17(18)-------17(18)-------17(18)-------17(18)-------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------
|-*18(17)-15------15-15-----15-15-----15-15-----15-15-----
|------------16---------16\-------16\-------16\-------16\-
|---------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------10-12p10---------------------
|-14(15)(14)-9-11-12p11-14p11-9p7-----7h9-/11----------11-9h11-9p7---7-7---
|---------------------------------7h9------------------------------9-----9-
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------
|-10----------------------10-8-7----------------
|-9(10)*10(9)-7---7-9---7--------7--------------
|---------------9-----9------------7------------
|------------------------------------9(10)(9)-7-
|-----------------------------------------------
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