The Slender Thread chords by Carrie Newcomer

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
FF C majorC  G+G C majorC
FF C majorC  G+G C majorC
FF C majorC  G+G C majorC
FF C majorC  G+G

Verse:
  FF             A minorAm
The car wheels hummed and the radio whined
  FF    C majorC    G+G     C majorC
The rise and fall of telephone lines
   FF             A minorAm
I was trying to remember the last thing you said
    FF     C majorC       G+G
Holding on to the slender thread

Verse:
    FF             A minorAm
I was awakened last night by the knife of a moon
     FF       C majorC       G+G    C majorC
I've been spooling out a thread from my heart to you
      FF       A minorAm
Don't give up on me, whatever you do
      FF     C majorC       G+G  D7D7
I'm holding on to the slender thread

Chorus:
G+G            A minorAm
Look up and bless every guiding star
   FF         G+G
We've worked so hard and come so far
         A minorAm
Home is still wherever you are
    FF     G+G    FF   C majorC  G+G C majorC  FF C majorC  G+G
Holding on to the slender thread

Verse:
 FF          A minorAm
I never knew it would come to this
     FF    C majorC    G+G    C majorC
That the world I knew no longer exists
   FF             A minorAm
I can still feel it burn like a place you kissed
    FF     C majorC       G+G
Holding on to the slender thread

Chorus:
            A minorAm
Look up and bless every guiding star
   FF         G+G
We've worked so hard and come so far
         A minorAm
Home is still wherever you are
    FF     G+G    FF
Holding on to the slender thread

Instrumental:
FF C majorC  G+G C majorC  FF C majorC  G+G
FF  A minorAm  FF C majorC  G+G

Bridge:
FF          G+G           A minorAm
Scams and scriptures posted by the roadside
FF           G+G             A minorAm
Whole stories hung out loose on the clotheslines
     FF           G+G
I left a trail of crumbs and a paper map
    A minorAm          N.C. G+G N.C. FF    G+G
As the miles unravel, it's love  that  calls me back

Verse:
     FF         A minorAm
I used to lay out altars in hotel rooms
    FF      C majorC      G+G      C majorC
On cigarette burnt tables, and check out at noon
 FF             A minorAm
A augmentedA stone and a feather and a letter from you
    FF     C majorC       G+G
Holding on to the slender thread

Chorus:
G+G            A minorAm
Look up and bless every guiding star
   FF         G+G
We've worked so hard and come so far
         A minorAm     G+G
Home is still wherever you are___

Chorus:
G+G            A minorAm
Look up and bless every guiding star
   FF         G+G
We've worked so hard and come so far
         A minorAm
Home is still wherever you are
    FF     G+G    FF
Holding on to the slender thread

Outro:
FF C majorC  G+G C majorC  FF C majorC  G+G
FF C majorC  G+G C majorC  FF C majorC  G+G