Song: The Once and Future Carpenter
Album: The Carpenter
Artist: The Avett Brothers
Tab Type: Guitar (Chords)



Intro:

E|-0-2-0---0-------|-----------------|------------------||
B|-------4---4-2-4-|-2-0-2-0---0-----|---------0--------||
G|-----------------|---------1---1---|-----0-1---1------||
D|-----------------|---------------4-|-2-4---------4-1--||
A|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||
E|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||

        Followed by this chord progression: E  B  E  B

Verse 1:

E             A          F#m                A
I ain't fom Texas, but I made my way from Dallas
      F#m                 B             E - B - E - B
and I know the lonesome sound is following
E            A               F#m           A
I ain't a gambler, but I can recognize a hand
             F#m                   B             E - B - E
and when to hold when queens are staring back at me


Transition riff:
         C#m               Abm

E|-----|-------4---4-----|------4---4--||
B|-----|-------5---5-----|------4---4--||
G|-----|-------6---6-----|------4---4--||
D|-----|-----6-----------|------6---6--||
A|-7-6-|-4---------------|----6--------||
E|-----|-------------7-6-|-4-----------|| x3

        Followed by: E  A  B  B

Verse 2:

E              A             F#m                A
Once I was a carpenter, and man my hands were calloused
         F#m            B               E
I could swing a metal mallet sure and straight
E                   A          F#m            A
But I took to the highway, a poet young and hungry
       F#m               B                 E
and I left the timbers rotting where they lay


Chorus:

 A                            Am                        
Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me
            E         C#m        B
and when I move my direction I look up to the sky
              A              
And when the black cloak drags upon the ground
         Am                      E            C#m            B
I'll be ready to surrender and remember we're all in this together
      A                         Am
If I live the life I'm given
                           E - B - E - B
I won't be scared to die


Verse 3:

E                   A                F#m           A
I don't come from Detroit, but her diesel motors pulled me
       F#m             B               E
and I followed till I finally lost my way
E               A                  F#m             A
Now I spend my days in search of a woman we call purpose
          F#m                B                  E
and if I ever passed back through her town I'd stay


[Play Chorus here]


Instead of playing E - B - E - B at the end of the chorus, play
the transition riff.


Verse 4:

E                 A          F#m             A
My life is but a coin pulled from an empty pocket
           F#m                    B                E
dropped into a slot of dreams of sevens close behind
E                 A               F#m                  A
Hope and fear go with it, and the moon and the sun go spinning
          F#m              B                E
Like the numbers and the fruits before our eyes


Bridge:

E   E/F#     E/G#   A                 B         E
Some - times  I    hit, sometimes it robs me blind
E   E/F#     E/G#   A                 B         E
Some - times  I    hit, sometimes it robs me blind


[Play Chorus here]

End on E chord.