The Calling chords by
Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Deep

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in your blood or a voice in your head

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On a dark lonesome highway

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that finds you instead

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So certain it knows you,

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you can't turn away

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Something or someone has

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found you today

Verse 2

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Genius to Jesus, maybe He saved us

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But who would believe us,

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I can't really say

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Whatever the calling,

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the stumbling or falling

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You follow it knowing there's no other way,

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there's no other way

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Verse 3

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They're Zealots and preach

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ers and readers of dreams

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The righteous gel out of stand,

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the safe drives to sin

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The lonely and lost are just waiting to hear

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Any moment their purpose

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will be perfectly clear

Verse 4

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And then life would mean more,

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than their name on their door

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And that far distant shore

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that's so near

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They'd hear the calling,

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the stumbling and falling

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They'd follow it knowing there's nothing to fear,

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nothing to fear

Interlude 1

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Verse 5

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I don't remember a voice on

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a dark lonesome road

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When I started the journey so long ago

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I was only just trying to

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outrun the norms

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There was never a question

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of having a choice

Verse 6

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Jesus to genius maybe they've seen me

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But who would believe me,

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Am

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I can't really say

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Whatever the calling,

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the stumbling and falling

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I followed it knowing there's

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no other way

Verse 7

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Jesus to genius, maybe He seen me

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But who would believe me,

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I can't really say

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Whatever the calling,

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the stumbling and falling

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I got through it knowing there's no other way,

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there's no other way

Outro 1

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Chords

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Bm

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The original key of The Calling by Mary Chapin Carpenter is G major.

The primary chords used in The Calling are C, G, D, Em, Am, Bm.

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