The Once and Future Carpenter by The Avett Brothers Lyric and Guitar Chords

If you are looking for The Once and Future Carpenter guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play The Once and Future Carpenter by The Avett Brothers using guitar or guitar.
This song by The Avett Brothers can also be played by that instruments.
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The Once and Future Carpenter guitar chords has rhythm and included in The Carpenter (2012) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

The Once and Future Carpenter by The Avett Brothers Guitar Chords


This shows the basic chords plus the intro and fill-ins. Listen to the song to
get the strum/picking patterns.

Capo 4

Intro Riff


|e-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|B--1-3-1-0-1-0---0--------------------------------------------------------|
|G--------------2---2-0-2-0---0-----------0--------------------------------|
|D--------------------------2---2-0---0-2---2---0-------0----------0-------|
|A----------------------------------3---------3---2-3-3-------0-3-3------0-|
|E--------------------------------------------------------3-3--------3-3---|

Verse 1

C
I ain’t from
F
Texas, but I
Dm
made my way from
F
Dallas
And I
Dm
know the lonesome
G
sound is follo
C
wing
G

C
I ain’t a
F
gambler, but I ca
Dm
n recognize a
F
hand
And when to
Dm
hold when the queens are
G
staring back at
C
me
G


|e---------0-----------0--|
|B---------1-----------0--|
|G---------2-----------0--| x3 Then, C F G
|D---------2-----------2--|
|A--3-2-0--0-----------2--|
|E--------------3-2-0--0--|

Verse 2

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

Chorus

F
Forever I will move like the
Fm
world that turns beneath me
And when I
C
lose my
Am
direction I’ll
G
look up to the sky
And when the
F
black cloak drags upon the ground
I’ll be
Fm
ready to surrender, and
C
remember
Well we’re
Am
all in this to
G
gether
F
If I live the life I’m given,
Fm
I wont be scared to die
C
G
C
G

Verse 3

And I don’t come from Detroit, but her diesel motors pull me
And I followed till I finally lost my way
And now I spend my days in search of a woman we called purpose
And if I ever pass back through here town I’ll stay

Chorus


|e---------0-----------0--|
|B---------1-----------0--|
|G---------2-----------0--| x3 Then C F G C C
|D---------2-----------2--|
|A--3-2-0--0-----------2--|
|E--------------3-2-0--0--|
|e-------------------------------------|
|B--1-3-1-0-1-0---0--------------------|
|G--------------2---2-0-2-0---0--------|
|D--------------------------2---2-0----|
|A----------------------------------3--|
|E-------------------------------------|

And my life is but a coin, pulled from an empty pocket
Dropped into a slot with dreams of sevens close behind
And hope and fear go with it, and moon and the sun go spinning
Like the numbers and fruits before our eyes

C
Sometimes I
F
hit, some
G
times it robs me
C
blind
C
Sometimes I
F
hit, some
G
times it robs me
C
blind

Chorus

Outro


|e-----------------------------------------------------|
|B--1-3-1-0-1-0---0---------------------------------1--|
|G--------------2---2-0-2-0---0-----------0---------0--|
|D--------------------------2---2-0---0-2---2---0---2--|
|A----------------------------------3---------3---2-3--|
|E-----------------------------------------------------|

Thanks!

If you want to learn The Avett Brothers The Once and Future Carpenter guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play The Once and Future Carpenter. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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