The Avett Brothers - The once and future carpenter
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Capo: 4
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
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|A----------------------------------3---------3---2-3-3-------0-3-3------0-|
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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
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|G---------2-----------0--| x3 Then, C F G
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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
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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
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