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Song: Once and Future Carpenter Album: The Carpenter Artist: The Avett Brothers Tabbed By: Shannon This shows the basic chords plus the intro and fill-ins. Listen to the song to get the strum/picking patterns. Capo 4 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
CI ain't from FTexas, but I Dmmade my way from FDallas And I Dmknow the lonesome Gsound is folloCwing G CI ain't a Fgambler, but I caDmn recognize a Fhand And when to Dmhold when the queens are Gstaring back at Cme G
|e---------0-----------0--| |B---------1-----------0--| |G---------2-----------0--| x3 Then, C F 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
FForever I will move like the Fmworld that turns beneath me And when I Close my Amdirection I'll Glook up to the sky And when the Fblack cloak drags upon the ground I'll be Fmready to surrender, and Cremember Well we're Amall in this toGgether FIf I live the life I'm given, Fm I wont be scared to die C G C G
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 F G C 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
CSometimes I Fhit, someGtimes it robs me Cblind CSometimes I Fhit, someGtimes it robs me Cblind
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!