#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# THIS IS LOVE (Mary Chapin Carpenter) ------------------------------------ [Capo 5; tune guitar to DADF#AD (open D). I'm not 100% sure of the tuning, but I'm at least 90% sure.] [D=000000; D (9 fr.)=002000; Dsus4=000100; G (9 fr.)=020100; Em7(4)=220100; D/F#=400300; Gsus9=550300; Asus4=x02300.] [It sounds like there's a Bm chord in the guitar solo. If so, play it like this: x20020.] D D (9 fr.) Dsus4 D D D(9) Dsus4 D [intro] G (9 fr.) G(9) G (9 fr.) G (9 fr.) D D (9 fr.) Dsus4 D D D(9) Dsus4 D [intro] D D (9 fr.) Dsus4 Dsus4 If you ever need to hear a voice in the middle of the night D D (9 fr.) Dsus4 Dsus4 when it seems so black outside that you can't remember G (9 fr.) G(9) G (9 fr.) G (9 fr.) D D (9 fr.) Dsus4 D light ever shone on you or the ones you love in this or another lifetime And the voice you need to hear is the true and the trusted kind, with a soft familiar rhythm in these swirling, unsure times, when the waves are lapping in and you're not sure you can swim, well here's the lifeline Em7(4) Em7(4) Em7(4) Em7(4) If you ever need to feel a hand take up your own D/F# D/F# D/F# D/F# When you least expect but want it more than you've ever known Gsus9 Gsus9 Gsus9 Gsus9 Asus4 Asus4 Asus4 Asus4 Baby, here's that hand, and baby's here's my voice that's calling D D (9 fr.) Dsus4 D Em7(4) Em7(4) Asus4 Asus4 This is love, all that ever was and will be D D (9 fr.) Dsus4 D D D(9) Dsus4 D This is love If you ever need some proof that time can heal your wounds, just step inside my heart and walk around these rooms; where the shadows used to be, you can feel as well as see how peace can hover Time's been here to fix what's broken with its power and the love that smashed us both to bits spent its last few hours calling out your name, and I thought, this is the kind of pain from which we don't recover But I'm standing here now with my heart held out to you You would have thought a miracle was all that got us through Well baby, all I know, all I know is I'm still standing And this is love, all that ever was and will be This is love, standing up for you baby, standing up for me G (9 fr.) G(9) G (9 fr.) G (9 fr.) And I see you still and there's this catch in my Asus4 Asus4 Asus4 Asus4 throat; And I just swallow hard till it leaves me G (9 fr.) G(9) G (9 fr.) G (9 fr.) There's nothing in this world that can change what we know Asus4 Asus4 Asus4 Asus4 G (9 fr.) G(9) G (9 fr.) G (9 fr.) Still I know I am here if you ever need me D D (9 fr.) Dsus4 D Em7(4) Em7(4) Asus4 Asus4 And this is love [guitar solo] D D (9 fr.) Dsus4 D Em7(4) Em7(4) Asus4 Asus4 [guitar solo] D D (9 fr.) Dsus4 D Em7(4) Em7(4) Asus4 Asus4 [guitar solo] Bm? Bm? Dsus4 D Em7(4) Em7(4) Asus4 Asus4 [guitar solo] D D (9 fr.) Dsus4 D D D(9) Dsus4 D [instrumental] If you ever think of me, let it be around twilight, when the world has settled down, and the last round of sunlight is waning in the sky as you sit and watch the night descending A car will pass out front with lovers at the wheel, a dog will bark out back, and children's voices peal over and under the air, you've been there, lost in the remembering If you ever wish for things that are only in the past Just remember that the wrong things aren't supposed to last Baby, it's over and done, the rest is gonna come when you let it And this is love, all that ever was and will be This is love, when you let it baby, if you let it now This is love, all that ever was and can be This is love [Repeat D D (9 fr.) Dsus4 D, and fade.] - Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com
