Song For A Carpenter chords by Dan Fogelberg

Chords with lyrics

Intro:

C majorC  G+G  FF   G+G
C majorC  G+G  FF  G+G C majorC

Verse 1:

    C majorC          G+G
Oh, he makes his life as a carpenter
  FF         G+G
He works his hands in wood
    C majorC         G+G
And he lives the way his granddad
      FF        G+G
Might have liked and understood

  C majorC         G+G
He goes to work each morning
    FF        G+G
And he comes home every night
    C majorC     CMaj9Cmaj9 A minorAm  G+G
And the time that passes in between
  FF     G+G     C majorC
He knows has been spent right

Interlude:

C majorC  G+G  FF  G+G C majorC

Verse 2:

  C majorC        G+G
A augmentedA child in South Ohio
  FF        G+G
A augmentedA man in Northern Maine
  C majorC           G+G
He took his dream to the end of the world
      FF       G+G
And he brought it back again

     C majorC        G+G
Here he met his sweet Rebekah
     FF         G+G
Here he came to make his stand
    C majorC   CMaj9Cmaj9    A minorAm  G+G
In a house he built in the piny woods
      FF   G+G    C majorC
Where the ocean meets the land

Chorus:

C majorC  G+G  FF  G+G  C majorC
And it's hey ho, steady as you go
FF       G+G      C majorC
Sing for the love of the land
FF  G+G  A minorAm
Hey ho, blessed is the home
FF      G+G      C majorC
Born of the carpenter's hand

Interlude:

C majorC  G+G  FF  G+G C majorC

Verse 3:

     C majorC         G+G
Oh, his hair is rough and curly
     FF          G+G
And his legs they reach the ground
     C majorC        G+G
And his eyes are full of living
     FF         G+G
And his back is broad and brown

     C majorC         G+G
And his heart is sure and stubborn
     FF          G+G
And his pride's too strong to bend
   C majorC    CMaj9Cmaj9  A minorAm    G+G
And somewhere in his life he found
   FF   G+G    C majorC
The time to be my friend

Chorus:

C majorC  G+G  FF  G+G  C majorC
And it's hey ho, steady as you go
FF       G+G      C majorC
Sing for the love of the land
FF  G+G  A minorAm
Hey ho, blessed is the home
FF      G+G      C majorC
Born of the carpenter's hand

Intro:

C majorC  G+G  FF   G+G
C majorC  G+G  FF  G+G C majorC

Verse 4:

G+G    C majorC         G+G
Oh, he loves his sweet Rebekah
    FF         G+G
He'll love her 'til his death
     C majorC       G+G
And she gave to him a bonny son
     FF        G+G
And they named the child Seth

   C majorC        G+G
And now they are a family
   FF     G+G
A augmentedA community of three
 C majorC  CMaj9Cmaj9  A minorAm  G+G
Living in the piny woods
      FF  G+G     C majorC
Where the soil meets the sea

Chorus:

C majorC  G+G  FF  G+G  C majorC
And it's hey ho, steady as you go
FF       G+G      C majorC
Sing for the love of the land
FF  G+G  A minorAm
Hey ho, blessed is the home
FF      G+G      C majorC  A minorAm
Born of the carpenter's hand
FF      G+G      C majorC
Born of the carpenter's hand

Outro:

C majorC  G+G  FF   G+G
C majorC  G+G  FF  G+G C majorC
C  G+G  C majorC