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Song: Once and Future Carpenter Album: The Carpenter Artist: The Avett Brothers Capo 4th fret Intro Riff |e-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |B--1-3-1-0-1-0---0--------------------------------------------------------| |G--------------2---2-0-2-0---0-----------0--------------------------------| |D--------------------------2---2-0---0-2---2---0-------0----------0-------| |A----------------------------------3---------3---2-3-3-------0-3-3------0-| |E--------------------------------------------------------3-3--------3-3---| Verse 1 C majorC FF DmDm FF I ain't from Texas, but I made my way from Dallas DmDm G+G C majorC G+G And I know the lonesome sound is following C majorC FF DmDm FF I ain't a gambler, but I can recognize a hand DmDm G+G C majorC G+G And when to hold when the queens are staring back at me |e---------0-----------0--| |B---------1-----------0--| |G---------2-----------0--| x3 Then, C majorC FF G+G |D---------2-----------2--| |A--3-2-0--0-----------2--| |E--------------3-2-0--0--| Verse 2 Once I was a carpenter, and man my hands were calloused I could swing a metal mallet sure and straight But I took to the highway, a poet young and hungry And I left the timbers rotting where they lay Chorus FF F minorFm Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me C majorC A minorAm G+G And when I lose my direction I'll look up to the sky FF And when the black cloak drags upon the ground F minorFm C majorC I'll be ready to surrender, and remember A minorAm G+G Well we're all in this together FF F minorFm C majorC G+G C majorC G+G If I live the life I'm given, I wont be scared to die Verse 3 And I don't come from Detroit, but her diesel motors pull me And I followed till I finally lost my way And now I spend my days in search of a woman we called purpose And if I ever pass back through here town I'll stay Chorus |e---------0-----------0--| |B---------1-----------0--| |G---------2-----------0--| x3 Then C majorC FF G+G C majorC C |D---------2-----------2--| |A--3-2-0--0-----------2--| |E--------------3-2-0--0--| |e-------------------------------------| |B--1-3-1-0-1-0---0--------------------| |G--------------2---2-0-2-0---0--------| |D--------------------------2---2-0----| |A----------------------------------3--| |E-------------------------------------| And my life is but a coin, pulled from an empty pocket Dropped into a slot with dreams of sevens close behind And hope and fear go with it, and moon and the sun go spinning Like the numbers and fruits before our eyes C majorC FF G+G C majorC Sometimes I hit, sometimes it robs me blind C majorC FF G+G C majorC Sometimes I hit, sometimes it robs me blind Chorus Outro |e-----------------------------------------------------| |B--1-3-1-0-1-0---0---------------------------------1--| |G--------------2---2-0-2-0---0-----------0---------0--| |D--------------------------2---2-0---0-2---2---0---2--| |A----------------------------------3---------3---2-3--| |E-----------------------------------------------------| Thanks!
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