The Once And Future Carpenter Chords & Tabs
The Once And Future Carpenter Chords
Song: The Once and Future Carpenter
Album: The Carpenter
Artist: The Avett Brothers
Tab Type: Guitar (Chords)
Intro:
E|-0-2-0---0-------|-----------------|------------------||
B|-------4---4-2-4-|-2-0-2-0---0-----|---------0--------||
G|-----------------|---------1---1---|-----0-1---1------||
D|-----------------|---------------4-|-2-4---------4-1--||
A|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||
E|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||
Followed by this chord progression: E B E B
Verse 1:
E A F#m A
I ain't fom Texas, but I made my way from Dallas
F#m B E - B - E - B
and I know the lonesome sound is following
E A F#m A
I ain't a gambler, but I can recognize a hand
F#m B E - B - E
and when to hold when queens are staring back at me
Transition riff:
C#m G#m
E|-----|-------4---4-----|------4---4--||
B|-----|-------5---5-----|------4---4--||
G|-----|-------6---6-----|------4---4--||
D|-----|-----6-----------|------6---6--||
A|-7-6-|-4---------------|----6--------||
E|-----|-------------7-6-|-4-----------|| x3
Followed by: E A B B
Verse 2:
E A F#m A
Once I was a carpenter, and man my hands were calloused
F#m B E
I could swing a metal mallet sure and straight
E A F#m A
But I took to the highway, a poet young and hungry
F#m B E
and I left the timbers rotting where they lay
Chorus:
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A Am
Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me
E C#m B
and when I move my direction I look up to the sky
A
And when the black cloak drags upon the ground
Am E C#m B
I'll be ready to surrender and remember we're all in this together
A Am
If I live the life I'm given
E - B - E - B
I won't be scared to die
Verse 3:
E A F#m A
I don't come from Detroit, but her diesel motors pulled me
F#m B E
and I followed till I finally lost my way
E A F#m A
Now I spend my days in search of a woman we call purpose
F#m B E
and if I ever passed back through her town I'd stay
[Play Chorus here]
Instead of playing E - B - E - B at the end of the chorus, play
the transition riff.
Verse 4:
E A F#m A
My life is but a coin pulled from an empty pocket
F#m B E
dropped into a slot of dreams of sevens close behind
E A F#m A
Hope and fear go with it, and the moon and the sun go spinning
F#m B E
Like the numbers and the fruits before our eyes
Bridge:
E E/F# E/G# A B E
Some - times I hit, sometimes it robs me blind
E E/F# E/G# A B E
Some - times I hit, sometimes it robs me blind
[Play Chorus here]
End on E chord.
