Mary Chapin Carpenter

Accords et partitions

10000 Miles

G C Em D A Am

I'm going away But I'll be back Though I go 10,000 miles 10,000 miles

A Keeper For Every Flame

G C D Em Bm A

She says it's been so long, she can't remember when The mention of his name didn't make her feel again That everything is possible and every day a brand new start Yeah, love's something powerful when it finds a willing heart

A Lot Like Me

G C F Dm - Em

He was a long tall stranger from way down south where he'd left his life behind He had a big old Gibson and a pickup truck and Shenandoah eyes And I remember him sitting in that local bar where I earned my pay each night Singing my songs to empty chairs and going home half tight

A Road is Just a Road

G D C Em Em/B F

He pulled out in a cloud of dust Laying rubber and spewing rust And on any road he'd take He'd have his foot on the pedal and my heart on the brake(break)

The Age Of Miracles

G# D# A# Cm a G#maj7

[Verse 1] The past comes upon you like smoke on the air, You can smell it and find yourself gone To a place that you lived without worry or care, Isn't that where we all once came from Green leaves and tall trees and stars overhead, And the sound of the world through the screen But now you sleep with the covers pulled over your head, And you never remember to dream

Almost Home

G C Em D F# Am

[Verse] Saw my life this morning Lying at the bottom of a drawer All this stuff I'm saving

Between The Dirt And The Stars

C F G Dm7 Am Dm

[Verse 1] Try to conjure up a night Of jessamine upon the air I'm seventeen and in a car Ready to ride anywhere

The Blue Distance

F Bb C Dm Am B

Verse 1 Across the railroad tracks, down the gravel road Headlights throw a beam on the way back home. Lie down, lie down, listen wide awake To the trains that roll, to the sound time makes.

The Bug

D G C A B

Well it?s a strange ol? game, you learn it slow One step forward and it?s back to go You?re standin? on the throttle, standin? on the brake In the groove ?til you make a mistake

The Calling

G C D Em

Pas de barré

[Chorus] Genius to Jesus, maybe He saved us But who would believe us, I can't really say Whatever the calling, the stumbling or falling You follow it knowing there's no other way, there's no other way

Cant Take Love For Granted

B A5 B5 E C#m D#

When I spoke what was on my mind I wasn't thinking of your heart I wasn't thinking 'bout the things I said That landed us so far apart And now my world is ending, baby

Capo Chart

G A C D E F

The charts try to list six things for each song: 1) The key that the song was originally recorded in. Sometimes this changes in live performances. 2) Where Mary Chapin Carpenter has her capo (0 if there's no capo). 3) The key MCC plays it in. 4) MCC's tuning. If it's blank, she uses standard tuning. If there's a question mark, that means it might be standard, but I'm not sure.

Christmas Time In The City

G D A D/F# A/D G/D

Verse 1 Well I walked to town in the pouring rain Paid my fare and I rode that train To the station under the avenue Hit the air at the stroke of noon

Closer And Closer Apart

G D Bm A F#m

[Verse 1] Tell me the truth, don't ask me to lie. These are the things we say. You don't need proof and I'm not going to try, But I think we have lost our way.

Come Darkness Come Light

G C D7 Am D

Pas de barré

Come broken, come whole Come wounded in your soul Come anyway that you know Alleluia

Come On Come On

A G D Em F#m Bm

[Verse 1] Some people remember the first time Some can't forget the last Some just select what they want to from the past It's a song that you danced to in high school

Come On Home

G C Am F

Pas de barré*

[Verse 1] Slowly as you look at me In your eyes I can't believe All the things I'm seeing now G Dsus2 D

Dont Need Much To Make Me Happy

G F C Am Em

With dreams in my head good night The feel of my hand being taken Driving at night all alone The breeze on a warm summer evening And coming home All in good time

Down At the Twist and Shout

G D C Em A7

Pas de barré

Saturday night and the moon is out I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet

Down In Marys Land

G D C Em Am F

Fields of green by the side of the road Going down to Mary's land Roll down the window, feel the cool of a grove Hit the palm of your outstretched hand Radio's playing a tune from the country

Downtown Train

G D C Em F# Am

Outside another yellow moon Has punched a hole in the nighttime I climb through the window and down to the street I'm shining like a new dime

Dreamland

F C Bb Gm7 Dm F/A

Sun goes down and says goodnight Pull your covers up real tight By your bed we'll leave a light To guide you off to Dreamland

The End Of My Pirate Days

E C#m7 D# B

[I _think_ these are the chords Mary Chapin uses. She might use a Non-standard tuning, which would mean these are wrong. But I think These sound pretty good. Feedback is appreciated.] [Actually in G; capo 3.] [E=022100; Asus9=x02200; Bsus=x24400; C#m7=x46600.]

Family Hands

D A7 G G/B Bm7 A9

Intro: , , , , Last Sunday we got in the car and we drove To the town you were raised in, your boyhood home The trees were just turning, up on the ridge And this was your valley when you were a kid

Farther Along And Further In

F C G Em Am

[Verse 1] Farther along and further in I've never gone, I've never been But I feel a shift, a turning in I've never felt before

Goodbye Again

F Am C G

Pas de barré*

[Verse 1] Every night she sleeps alone And by her bed she puts the phone And every morning after that She takes the phone and puts it back

Grow Old With Me

G D Em Am7 C D7

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be When our time has come, we will be as one God bless our love God bless our love

Halley Came To Jackson

D A G Bm D5

Late one night when the wind was still Daddy brought the baby to the window sill To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky The one and only time Daddy saw it fly

The Hard Way

F C G Am Em

[Verse 1] Show a little inspiration, show a little spark And show that things that drew me to you and stole my heart And tell me something I don't know instead of everything I do And look at me as if I mean something to you

He Thinks He'll Keep Her

A E D F#m Bm

She does the carpool, she PTA's Doctors and dentists, she drives all day When she was twenty-nine she delivered number three And every christmas card showed a perfect family

Here I Am

C F G Em Dm7 Dm

[Verse 1] I've waited longer for lesser things But here I am Who really knows what tomorrow brings But here I am

Hero In Your Own Hometown

G F C Am E Am7

[Verse 1] We were born during the boom times Played house down in the bomb shelter Suffered through the wonder years And silence at the dinner hour

Heros And Heroines

F Bb Dm Gm C

1.) Heros and heroines are scarcer than they've ever been So much more to lose than win the distance never greater Way back when you made history by flying planes across the sea Embarking on your odyssey You put away the danger Heaven bless the one who flys A pioneer on frontier skies

Hot Buttered Rum

F Bb C Am Dm

When chimney smoke hangs still and low Across the stubbled fields of snow And angry skies reach down and seize The sorry blackened bones of trees In the dead of winter when the silent snowbirds come

House Of Cards

G C D B Am7 Bm7

I grew up in a house like this, we knew the groan of every stair All the walls seemed to listen in, all the years seemed to take up air When you dreamed it was of the wind blowing cold and hard In those dreams you thought you lived in a house of cards

I Am A Town

F G C a Am

Fadd9 G7sus Fadd9 G7sus I'm the last gas for an hour if you're going twenty-five. Fadd9 G7sus Fadd9 G7sus I am Texaco and tobacco, I am dust you leave behind.

I Feel Lucky

E B A D E7 F#9

Well I woke up this morning stumbled out of my rack I opened up the paper to the page in the back It only took a moment for my finger to find My daily dose of destiny, under my sign My eyes just about popped out of my head

I Put My Ring Back On

D Bm7 A G Gmaj7 F#m

Verse Who knows where faith comes from, but last night I put my ring back on, Cause here with you is where I belong, last night I put my ring back on, No life's, without uncertainty, we both know how, hard this love can be, It's just this hurting inside of me that threw it down, down, down, down.

I Take My Chances

C G D Em Bm G/B

I took a walk in the rain one day On the wrong side of the tracks I stood on the rails till I saw that train Just to see how my heart would react Now some people say that you shouldn't tempt fate

I Want To Be Your Girlfriend

C G D F A Am

I wanna be your girlfriend, I wanna be your new love I wanna be the one that you can't get enough of I wanna be your girlfriend, nobody else's but yours I wanna be the one who you'll do anything for

I Was A Bird

C F G Am Dm Em

[Verse] I was a bird that loved to fly Catching the wind as it went south And I could touch every inch of sky And the sweetest songs trilled from my mouth

Iceland

Fmaj7 C Am A Em G

Https://open.spotify.com/track/3E62xrk62w4HoTlmRsxnQ8 Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLAzxRKgPyU Worked out on request for ljclevenger26. Do you mind your avatar is here? Songwriters: Mary Carpenter If you like my "work" don't hesitate to add favorite or to give it the STARS it deserves (with explanation?).

It Must Have Happened

F G C Am D

Pas de barré*

'Cause after all, baby Here I am with the ring in my pocket And the moon in my hand After all, baby Here I am with you

Its Only Love

G F Am C Em

[Verse] I always knew just what I wanted I charted every path I'd take Then one day I met you babe And the earth began to shake

John Doe No 2

D E G a C

The guitar part repeats one pattern through the entire song, with some Slight variations. This tablature is for the first four measures of The song, and it shows two ways to play the end of the pattern; through Most of the song, she uses the second way, especially while she's Singing. (Note that the "131" in the tab is a hammer-on followed by a

John Doe No 24

E B

Pas de barré*

[Verse] I was standing on the sidewalk in 1945 In Jacksonville, Illinois When asked what my name was there came no reply They said I was a deaf and sightless half wit boy

Jubilee

G C D Em7 Em D11

But for some variety and texture, Some D(9)'s in with the D's.] [Each chord is half of a 6/8 measure, or a whole 3/4 measure, Depending on how you look at it.]

Keeping The Faith

G C D Em

Pas de barré

When it's been that kind of day, baby When everything is not what it should be Everybody's had their say; Let's Just say today is history

The Last Word

G C F Am a Dm7

[In concert, MCC performed this in the key of F; she was playing in C With a capo at the 5th fret (it was a segue from "This Shirt"), and John Jennings played in E with a capo on the 1st fret. On the CD, the Plays in E with the guitar tuned down 1/2 step. These are the chords That MCC plays, so capo 3.]

Let Me Into Your Heart

C G Em D D7 A

You're like a cool breeze to a hot spell You're like a long drink to a dry well Oh I know by now, there's no use thinking That it's something in that water I've been drinking Cause I would not need even one more drop

The Long Way Home

C F Em G Am Dm

[Verse 1] You could be this man; he's got it all worked out To the nth degree, no fears, no doubts He'll retire at thirty to his big-ass house Next to the putting green

The Longest Night Of The Year

C D G Em Am

Pas de barré

[Verse 1] They say that spring will come again No one knows exactly when. Still the suns a long lost friend On the longest night of the year. We stare into the firelight While December beats outside Where the darkest hearts reside On the longest night of the year

Middle Ground

D G C Am F Em

(verse 1) For years she's lived on her own, In a corner of the city, Twice a year she gets back home, Playing catch up with the family,

The Moon And St Christopher

C F Dm7 G E Am

* Tuning: DADGBC (yes, C) * Actually in F; capo 5. * Each chord is half a measure. * No guarantees.

The More Things Change

Em A B7 G E5

Well I think of you sometimes at night And sometimes it's still the same The way that it was when I was the keeper of your flame We all have our ghosts, we all have our doubts I'm no different with you or without

Naked To The Eye

G D C Em a

Been walking these streets, been deciding what's true Been hands in my pockets, coat collar up, thinking 'bout you I've been talking to myself, giving fate the third degree Been eyes on the pavement admitting my part to strangers passing me

Not Too Much To Ask

E A B7 G#m F#m G#

[Verse] To hear you say my name, to see you search my eyes To feel you touch my hand, it more than satisfies If I was not the first, just say I'll be the last It's too much to expect, but it's not too much to ask

Oh Rosetta

F G C

Pas de barré*

[Verse 1] I’m telling you these things that I tell no one else When I’m all alone, when I’m by myself And I believe you hear me though I have no proof It’s what I feel inside that’s telling me the truth

On With The Song

G C D B Am Dm

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Only A Dream

C G D Am F#7 D7

[Verse] I can recall the sound of the wind As it blew through the trees and the trees would bend I can recall the smell of the rain On a hot summer night

Opening Act

G C A7 D7 G7 Cm

[Verse 1] You don’t have a backstage room of your own You just have feedback in your microphone ‘Cause you don’t get a soundcheck ‘Cause you’re not worth the time

Other Streets And Other Towns

F G C Am Em B

The whippoorwills were crying in the falling rain Far away a whistle hailed a passing train Out in the country summer was almost gone The fields were turning rusty and the hills were turning brown

Our Man Walter Cronkite

A F#m G Bm Bbm E

[Verse 1] Where are the arms of the world? They've always been able to find us Caught between borders and shores Reaching past danger and blindness

Outside Looking In

G C Am F A D

Everywhere I see the signs, pointing one direction No more twists or crooked turns, leaving room for doubt Where I used to take the time for quiet and reflection Now I only hear the noise of what I am without

Party Doll

E A B C#m D# F#m

You used to be my party doll But now you say the party's over You used to love the honky tonk But now the honky tonkin's over

Passionate Kisses

C F G Am Am7 G6

Is it too much to ask? I want a comfortable bed that won't hurt my back Food to fill me up And warm clothes and all that stuff

Quittin Time

G C F Fmaj7 Am FM7

Okay, a couple notes about this song. First of all, the electric guitar Plays this song in D, and Mary-Chapin plays the acoustic guitar in C, capoed Up two frets (as I've written it here). Don't worry too much about the bass notes in the chorus; they were just So obvious I had to put them in.

Read My Lips

G C D G7 A

Pas de barré

[Verse 1] A few more cigarettes now honey One more jolt of Joe A couple hours past New York city A few more turnpike tolls

Secret Keepers

G A D Bm Em a

[Chorus] Secret keepers are lost and found Spare a little kindness when you meet someone You never really know what they're carrying around Every day is a battle that's never won

Shut Up and Kiss Me

A D E B B7

Pas de barré*

Don't mean to get a little forward with you Don't mean to get ahead of where we are Don't mean to act a little nervous around you I'm just a little nervous about my heart

Slave To The Beauty

D Em G C Am F

[Verse] Don't wanna need the way I need you Don't wanna feel like this Holding back all the words, but not the kiss For the moment my heart begins to murmur

Slow Country Dance

G C D F Em7

(verse 1) Out on the floor the couples are swaying, To One Faded Love on the jukebox tonight, You slide in your coins and the music keeps playing, A slow country dance on a Saturday night,

Something Of A Dreamer

E A D F# F#m C

[Verse 1] She used to watch him from afar She used to dream about him And she'd wish upon a star That one day he'd want her for his own

Something Tamed Something Wild

G C F Am a Em

SONG: SOMETHING TAMED SOMETHING WILD ARTIST: MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER VIDEO: https://youtu.be/8s51KzEeVak TAB BY: DON CZARSKI EMAIL: [email protected]

Sometimes Just The Sky

C G D Em

Pas de barré

[Verse] Noises in my head And endless should-haves rain On me like a storm Like a hurricane

Soul Companion

D A G F# Bm Em

[Verse 1] All of our dreams are laid out and measured Arrows and pins and a rainbow of threads Like hope on a string, sewn into the linings For the courage to face the un - known ahe-ad

Stones In The Road

E Dsus2 A Bm Bm7 D

When we were young we pledged allegiance every morning of our lives. The classroom rang with children's voices under teacher's watchful eye. We learned about the world around us at our desks and at dinner time. Reminded of the starving children, we cleaned our plates with guilty minds.

Tender When I Want To Be

C G F Dm Em Dm7

[Actually in F; capo 5. Each chord is half a measure, except two chords Joined by a hyphen are a half-measure total.] [In MCC's 1995 tour, she performed a version of this song that was straight Rock 'n' roll. That version had pretty much the same chords, except the Bridge (the part with "I never would have known it...") used

Thanksgiving Song

E B/D# A B Eadd9 C#m7

Intro: Grate-ful for each hand we hold, gathered'round This table from far an near we travel home

This Is Love

D G Em7 F# Bm F

[Capo 5; tune guitar to DADF#AD (open D). I'm not 100% sure of the tuning, But I'm at least 90% sure.] [=000000; (9)=002000; Dsus=000100; (9)=020100; [It sounds like there's a Bm chord in the guitar solo. If so, play it Like this: x20020.]

Too Tired

D G A C B Am7

Too tired to fight so I just gave in Last night I slept in your arms again And I felt my heart next to your skin Beatin' like crazy

Transcendental Reunion

F Bb C

[Verse 1] From 20,000 feet high, I saw the lights below me Twinkling just like Christmas, We descended slowly And the curve of the world passed, with all of that flying Above the mighty ocean, and now we all are arriving

Travelers Prayer

D C G Em Bm

[Verse 1] Here I am walking, far from familiar streets Looking for someone who might resemble me Whispering something, sounds like a traveler's prayer

Twilight

D G C Em Bm

Without capo in standard tuning these chords are Compatible with this version from the The Calling Album: Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blRq9pBQlWY

Walking Through Fire

D G A C E F

[This song is actually in the key of A, then it switches to B; I'm guessing [On a single guitar, you can do a pretty good rendition of the descending Right before the D. For D(9) (in the latter part of the song), play it As xx0230, and then xx0220 right before the E.] [Each chord is half a measure.]

Wall Around Your Heart

D C G Bm2 Em a

From the Youtube Video (capo 2nd Fret ) Also recorded by Maura OConnell on her Stories Album (in key of C) Corrections Welcome ! Add D X20230, C add D: X32O3X (G)Just outside the (D)place

Waltz

D A G F# Em A7

[Verse 1] Fetch me a glass Let's fill it with fine romance Pour slow the wine Then let your eyes kiss mine

The Way I Feel

C G F Dm7 Am G7

Pas de barré*

From the album "The Age of Miracles" (2010) Youtube link : https://youtu.be/I6j-t4r3uWA Spotify link : https://open.spotify.com/track/4RQIlLkJYVaBEoy3odwy4J?si=6a74556fb2a248b6 Apple Music link: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-way-i-feel/366347058?i=366347060

We Travelled So Far

G D A

Pas de barré

[Verse 1] I found myself wondering today Why do some go and some stay Do each of our hearts know their way Through valleys of sorrow and tears

What If We Went To Italy

G C G6 D C6 Em

[Verse 1] What if we went to Italy A suitcase of books And one bag a piece for the summer I don't speak a word of Italian

When Shes Gone

C F G Am e g

She threw her purse upon the bed She looked around and shook her head There's really nothing left, she said There's nothing I ain't done She wore your favorite dress tonight

Where The Beauty Is

C Gm F Bb Eb Dm

[Verse 1] The crooked line beneath the paint From faraway it looks straight Where practiced hands betray a shake That's where the beauty is

Wherever You Are

A D E E7 B7 A/D

I'm looking for a strong and steady heart For a love in a world that won't fall apart At the first sign of trouble, near or far I'm looking through eyes that have shed some tears And I'm looking for that one who's gonna face my fears

Why Shouldnt We

F Bb C Dm

[Verse 1] We believe in things that we cannot see Why shouldn't we? Why shouldn't we? Hands that heal can set a chained man free Why shouldn't we? Why shouldn't we?

Why Walk When You Can Fly

C G D Em B Am

WHY WALK WHEN YOU CAN FLY (Mary Chapin Carpenter) [I've no idea how Mary Chapin Carpenter plays this song. In concert, she Plays it with a capo on the 7th fret. Since the song is in B, that would Using a very strange tuning, because I can't for the life of me figure out How she's getting those chords out of the positions she uses. Any ideas?]

You

C G Am F

Pas de barré*

You are the one who makes me happy When everything else turns to grey Yours is the voice that wakes me mornings And sends me out into the day You are the crowd that sits quiet

You Win Again

G F Am C Dm7 G/B

I've got one quarter left, your machine picks up, But baby I know you're there, And I just start crying 'cause it makes no sense, To waste these words and twenty five cents on a losing game,