Tapestry - Live chords by Carole King
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Intro 1
(D major) (Dsus4) (Asus4) (D major) (Asus4) (D major) (G major) (D major) (Asus4) (G major)
(D major) My life
Verse 1
has
been a tapestry (Asus4) of rich (D major) and royal (Asus4) hue
An (D major) everlasting vision (G major) (Asus4) of the
(D major) ever- (G major) chan (Dsus4) ging (D major) view
A wondrous (E minor) woven (A major) magic in
(E minor) bits of blue and gold (A major)
A tapestry (G major) to feel (F sharp minor) and see,
im (E minor) possible to hold (A major)
(Asus4) (A major)
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Verse 2
(D major) Once, amid the soft,
(Asus4) silver (A major) sad (D major) ness in the sky (Asus4)
There came (D major) a man of for (Dsus4) tune,
(Asus4) a drifter (D major) passing (Asus4) (D major) by
He (E minor) wore a torn and (A major) tattered cloth
around (E minor) his leathered hide (A major)
And a coat (G major) of many colors, (F sharp minor) yellow,
green (E minor) on either side
(A major) (E minor)
Verse 3
(A major)
He moved (F major) with some uncertainty, (B flat major)
as (F major) if he didn't know (B flat major)
Just (F major) what he was there for, (B flat major)
or where (F major) he (B flat major) ought to go (F major)
(A major) Once he reached for something (E major)
golden (D major) hanging from a tree (A major)
And his hand came (D major) down (G major) empty
Verse 4
(G major)
Soon (D major) within my tapestry, (Dsus4)
(Asus4) along (D major) the rutted road (Asus4)
He sat (D major) down on a river (Asus4) rock
and turned (D major) in (Asus4) to a toad (D major)
It seemed (E minor) that he had fallen (A major) into
someone's (E minor) wicked spell (A major)
And I (G major) wept to see him (F sharp minor) suffer,
though I (E minor) didn't know him well (A major)
Verse 5
(E flat major) As I watched (A flat major) in sorrow,
there suddenly (E flat major) appeared (A flat major)
A figure, (E flat major) gray (A flat major) and ghostly,
beneath (E flat major) a flowing beard
In times (F minor) of deepest (Fsus4) dark (B flat major) ness,
I've seen (F minor) him dressed in (B flat major) black
Now my (A flat major) tapestry's unraveling,
(G minor) he's (F minor) come to take me (B flat major) back
He's (F minor) come to take me (B flat major) back
Outro 1
(B flat major) (B flatsus4) (E flat major)
(B flatsus4) (B flat major) (E flat major) (F minor) (E flat major) (B flatsus4) (B flatsus4)
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