The Once And Future Carpenter Cifras

Song: Once and Future Carpenter
Album: The Carpenter
Artist: The Avett Brothers
Tabbed By: IanSan
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Capo 4
 
[Intro Riff]
 
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B|----1--3--1--0--1--0-----0---------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------2-----2--0--2--0----0-------------------0--------------|
D|----------------------------------------2----2--0----0--1--2-----2--0--------|
A|--------------------------------------------------3-------------------2--3---|
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[Verse 1]
C            F            Dm               F
I ain't from Texas, but I made my way from Dallas
      Dm                G              C      G
And I know the lonesome sound is following
C         F                  Dm          F
I ain't a gambler, but I can recognize a hand
            Dm                   G               C
And when to hold when queens are staring back at me
 
 
[Interlude]
           Am          Em
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B|---------1-----------0--|
G|---------2-----------0--|  x3
D|---------2-----------2--|
A|--3-2-0--0-----------2--|
E|--------------3-2-0--0--|
 
 
C F G
 
 
[Verse 2]
C            F              Dm                 F
Once I was a carpenter, and man my hands were calloused
        Dm            G               C       G
I could swing a metal mallet sure and straight
    C             F          Dm             F
But I took to the highway, a poet young and hungry
      Dm               G                  C     G
And I left the timbers rotting where they lay
 
 
[Chorus]
   F                         Fm
Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me
           C         Am           G
And when I lose my direction I'll look up to the sky
             F
And when the black cloak drags upon the ground
       Fm                         C
I'll be ready to surrender, and remember
           Am                  G
Well we're all in this together
     F                        Fm                         C G C G
If I live the life I'm given,    I wont be scared to die
 
 
[Verse 3]
C                  F               Dm            F
I don't come from Detroit, but her diesel motors pull me
      Dm              G               C     G
And I followed till I finally lost my way
    C              F                   Dm              F
And now I spend my days in search of a woman we called purpose
         Dm             G                     C     G
And if I ever pass back through her town I'll stay
 
 
[Chorus]
   F                         Fm
Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me
           C         Am           G
And when I lose my direction I'll look up to the sky
             F
And when the black dress drags upon the ground
       Fm                         C
I'll be ready to surrender, and remember
           Am                  G
Well we're all in this together
     F                        Fm
If I live the life I'm given,    I wont be scared to die
 
 
[Interlude]
          Am          Em
e|--------0-----------0--|
B|--------1-----------0--|
G|--------2-----------0--|  x3
D|--------2-----------2--|
A|-3-2-0--0-----------2--|
E|-------------3-2-0--0--|
 
 
C F G C C
 
 
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B|-1-3-1-0-1-0---0--------------------|
G|-------------2---2-0-2-0---0--------|
D|-------------------------2---2-0----|
A|---------------------------------3--|
E|------------------------------------|
 
 
[Verse 3]
    C                F            Dm            F
And my life is but a coin pulled from an empty pocket
          Dm                       G              C        G
Dropped into a slot with dreams of sevens close behind
C                     F           Dm                  F
Hope and fear go with it, and the moon and the sun go spinning
         Dm              G                 C
Like the numbers and the fruits before our eyes
 
C           F        G                C
Sometimes I hit, sometimes it robs me blind
C           F        G                C
Sometimes I hit, sometimes it robs me blind
 
 
[Chorus]
   F                         Fm
Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me
           C         Am           G
And when I lose my direction I'll look up to the sky
             F
And when the black cloak drags upon the ground
       Fm                         C
I'll be ready to surrender, and remember
           Am                  G
Well we're all in this together
     F                        Fm                         C
If I live the life I'm given,    I wont be scared to die
 
 
[Outro]
                                                   C
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A|---------------------------------3---------3---2-3--|
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