The Once And Future Carpenter Tab

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]
 
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     G
And when to hold when the queens are staring back at me
 
 
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]
 
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]
 
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|-------------------------------------|
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
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
 
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]
 
 
[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|-----------------------------------------------------|
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