• Song:

    Tapestry

  • Artist:

    Carole King

  • Album:

    Carole King: The Ode Co...

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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 20:03:17 +0100 (CET)
From: Peter Eybert 
Subject: CRD: Tapestry by Carole King

Tapestry

written and performed by Carole King
from "Tapestry", 1971
transcribed by Peter Eybert 


(Capo 1)

   E (022100@1)             B7 (x21202@1)        E (022100@1)            B7My (x21202@1)life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue,
   E (022100@1)         B7 (x21202@1)          E (022100@1)          B7an (x21202@1)everlasting vision of the everchanging view,
  F#m7 (131141@2)         B (x2444x@1)      A (x02220@1)              Ba (x2444x@1)wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold,
  Amaj7 (x02120@1)     G#m7 (131141@4)          F#m (244222@1)       B7a (x21202@1)tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.

Emaj7 (021100@1)       B9 (x2122x@1)        Emaj7 (021100@1)        B9Once (x2122x@1)amid the soft silver sadness in the sky
      E (022100@1)           B9 (x2122x@1)       E (022100@1)             B7there (x21202@1)came a man of fortune, a drifter passing by
   F#m7 (131141@2)          B (x2444x@1)              A (x02220@1)                Bhe (x2444x@1)wore a torn and tattered cloth around his leathered hide
      Amaj7 (x02120@1)      G#m7 (131141@4)         F#m (244222@1)           B7 (x21202@1)     F#m7 (131141@2)name="chord_x21202@1">B7
and a coat of many colors, yellow-green on either side.

   G (320003@1)               D7sus (xx0213@1)D7 (xx0212@1)   Gmaj7 (xx5432@1)      D7He (xx0212@1)moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
G (320003@1)              D7sus (xx0213@1)name="chord_xx0212@1">D7      Gmaj7 (xx5432@1)           D7just (xx0212@1)what he was there for, or where he ought to go
B (x2444x@1)                 Gb7 (242352@1)            Abm7           Bonce (x2444x@1)he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
        Emaj7 (021100@1)             Gband (244322@1)his hand came down - empty.

E (022100@1)            B7 (x21202@1)       E (022100@1)            B7Soon (x21202@1)within my tapestry along the rutted road
   E (022100@1)           B7 (x21202@1)           E (022100@1)           B7he (x21202@1)sat down on a river rock and turned into a toad,
   F#m7 (131141@2)             B (x2444x@1)         A (x02220@1)              Bit (x2444x@1)seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell,
      Amaj7 (x02120@1)         G#m7 (131141@4)           F#m (244222@1)           B7and (x21202@1)I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well.

F (133211@1)             C7 (x32310@1)          F (133211@1)        C7As (x32310@1)I watched in sorrow, there suddenly appeared
  F (133211@1)             C7 (x32310@1)      F (133211@1)             C7a (x32310@1)figure gray and ghostly beneath a flowing beard
   Gm7              C (x32010@1)            Bb (x1333x@1)                Cin (x32010@1)times of deepest darkness, I've seen him dressed in black
       Bbmaj7 (x13231@1)      Am7 (x02010@1)          Gm (355333@1)            C7now (x32310@1)my tapestry's unravelling; he's come to take me back,
     Gm7             D9sus  Dm7/4
he's come to take me back.

F (133211@1)  C7 (x32310@1)  F (133211@1)  C7 (x32310@1)  F.

D9sus = x00553
Dm7/4 = x00011

--
pjoe@charon.muc.de

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