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YOU WIN AGAIN (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
-------------------------------------

[Actually in D; capo 2.]
[Each chord is half a measure, except two chords joined by a hyphen are
 a half-measure _total_.]

Am    F    G    C - G/B     Am    F    G    C
[intro]
Am    F    G    C - G/B     Am    F    G    C
[intro]

      Am          F               G           C - G/B
I'm standing here freezing in a phone booth, baby
       Am        G           F    F
In the middle of god-knows-where
          Am          F             G         C - G/B
I've got one quarter left, your machine picks up
     Am    G             F    F
But baby I know you're there
      Dm7        Dm7              C/G      G
And I just start crying 'cause it makes no sense
   Dm7         Dm7           C/G     G           Am     F
To waste these words and twenty-five cents on a losing game
G   C - G/B  Am       F    G    C
   Ba - by, you win again

I've been turning it over and over again
Like a stone I'm waiting to wish on
I've been holding my breath, just wondering when
You'll make some sort of decision
To let me in or to let me go
I always lose if I never know where I fit in
Baby, you win again

Bb            Bb           Dm7    G
   I can't be right if I'm always wrong
     C           F          Am    Gsus - G
   I can't stand up if I'm always kneeling
Bb         Bb       Dm7     G
   At your altar or at your throne
C              F          Dm7     G      Am     F
   You could show just a little feeling for who I am
G   C - G/B  Am       F    G    C
   Ba - by, you win again

Am    F    G    C - G/B     Am    F    G    C
[guitar solo]
Am    F    G    C - G/B     Am    F    G    C
[guitar solo]
Am    F    G    C - G/B     Am    F    G    C
[guitar solo]
Am    F    G    C - G/B     Am    F    G    C
[guitar solo]

Last night I dreamed we were standing here
On the corner of Love and Heartache
You jumped into your car, you found first gear
And baby, I felt the earth shake
And I woke up trembling with my heart in my throat
'Cause there's never a look, a word, or a note at the bitter end
Baby, you win again

I can't be right if I'm always wrong
I can't stand up if I'm always kneeling
At your altar or at your throne
You could show just a little feeling for who I am
Baby, you win again

Am  F  G  C    Am  F  G  C    Am  F  G  C    Am  F  G  C
[guitar solo]
Am  F  G  C    Am  F  G  C    Am  F  G  C    Am  F  G  Fmaj9.
[guitar solo]

INTRO TAB:

Actually, this is played on an electric guitar with no capo (key of D),
but I've written it here in C with a capo
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WHY WALK WHEN YOU CAN FLY (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
-------------------------------------------------
[I've no idea how Mary Chapin Carpenter plays this song.  In concert, she
 plays it with a capo on the 7th fret.  Since the song is in B, that would
 mean she's playing in E, and the verse chords are B E A A.  She's clearly
 using a very strange tuning, because I can't for the life of me figure out
 how she's getting those chords out of the positions she uses.  Any ideas?]
[I'm going to write these chords down in the key of G, since I know that's
 where John Jennings plays them, with a capo on the 4th fret.]

n.c.
In this world there's a whole lot of trouble, baby
n.c.
In this world there's a whole lot of pain
n.c.
In this world there's a whole lot of trouble
n.c.
But a whole lot of ground to gain
n.c.
Why take when you could be giving, why watch as the world goes by
n.c.
It's a hard enough life to be living, why walk when you can fly

D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C
[instrumental]
D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C
[instrumental]
C  C  G  G    Am  G/B  C  C   D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C
[instrumental]

D       G               C            C
In this world there's a whole lot of sorrow
D       G               C            C
In this world there's a whole lot of shame
D       G               C            C
In this world there's a whole lot of sorrow
      Em          Em        C     C
And a whole lotta ground to gain
         C            C        G      G   Am          G/B       C    C
When you spend your whole life wishing,   wanting and wondering why
       D           G          C       C   Em        Em     C    C
It's a long enough life to be living, why walk when you can fly

C  C  G  G    Am  G/B  C  C   D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C
[instrumental]
D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C
[instrumental]

D       G               C            C
In this world there's a whole lot of golden
D       G               C            C
In this world there's a whole lot of plain
D       G              C          C
In this world you've a soul for a compass
      Em          Em      C     C
And a heart for a pair of wings
          C           C     G    G        Am           G/B  C    C
There's a star on the far horizon, rising bright in an azure sky
        D           G                C      C   Em        Em      C    C
For the rest of the time that you're given, why walk when you can fly

D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C
high...
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WHERE TIME STANDS STILL (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
-----------------------------------------------

G      G - Gmaj7      C       C/D - D
[intro]
G      Gmaj7          C       C/D - D
[intro]

G                    G                C(9)        D(9)
  Baby, where's that place where time stands still
                  G         G                       C(9)       D7/F#
I remember like a lover can, but I forget it like a leaver will
G                       Gmaj7     C(9)     D(9)
  It's no place you can get to by yourself; you've gotta love someone and
G             Gmaj7                C(9)        D(9)
they love you;  Time will stop for nothing else

F(9)         F(9)         C/E                     C/E
Memory plays tricks on us; the more we cling, the less we trust
        F(9)               F(9)                 Am(9)           C/D   -   D
And the less we trust, the more we hurt; and as time goes on it just gets worse

G(9)                    Gmaj7            C(9)        Cm6
  So baby, where's that place where time stood still
                    G            Cm6                   G              G
Is it under glass inside a frame, was it over when you had your fill?

G         G             C        C/D - D
[instrumental]
G - G/F#  G/E - G/D     C        G  -  D
[instrumental]
Em7       Bm7  -  G     C        G
[instrumental]
G         C             G        D  -  Em7
[instrumental]

F(9)             F(9)             C/E         C/E
Here we are with nothing but this emptiness inside of us
  F(9)               F(9)           Am(9)              C/D  -   D
Your smile a fitting final gesture, wish I could have loved you better

G(9)                 Gmaj7            C(9)         Cm6
  Baby, where's that place where time stands still
                  G         Cm6                     G           Cm6
I remember like a lover can, but I forget it like a leaver will
                             G            Cm6
It's the first time that you held my hand, it's the smell and the
    G                            Cm6
    taste, and the feel, and the thrill
                  G          Cm6
It's everything I understand, and all the things I
     G             Gmaj7      C     Cm6     G.
    never will  [instrumental]

INTRO:

  G                       Gmaj7    C6                      D
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B ----0-1-3---0-1-3---0-1-3-------|------0-1-----0-1---------------|
G(0)------0-------0---------------|----2-------2--------0----------|
D ------------------------4-------(2)------2-------2-------4-------|
A --------------------------------|------------------------5-------|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  ^   .   ^   .   ^   .   ^   .    ^   .   ^   .   ^   .   ^   .

  G               Gmaj7            C6                      D
E ----------------------------5---|3-------------------------------|
B ----0-1-3---0-1-3---0-1-3-------(1)----0-1-----0-1---------------|
G(0)------0-----------------------|----2-------2-------0-----------|
D ----------------4-------4-------|--------2-------2-------4-------|
A --------------------------------|------------------------5-------|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  ^   .   ^   .   ^   .   ^   .    ^   .   ^   .   ^   .   ^   .


SOLO:

           G                                C6              C       D
E --------|--------------------5---3-------|--------------------------------|
B ------1-|3---0-1-3---0-1-3---7---3-------|------0-1-----0-1---------------|
G --0=2---|4---0-2-4---0-2-4---7---4-------|2---2-------2-------0---2-------|
D --------|--------------------------------|----------------2-------0-------|
A --------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E --------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  ^   .    ^   .   ^   .   ^   .   ^   .    ^   .   ^   .   ^   .   ^   .

  G                                C6              G       D
E --------------------5---3-------|0-------------------------------|
B 0---0=1-3---0=1-3---3---0---013-|1-----3---------3-----0---------|
G 2---0---4-------4---------------|2---4---2-------4---0---2-------|
D --------------------------------|--------2-----------2---4-------|
A --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|
  ^   .   ^   .   ^   .   ^   .    ^   .   ^   .   ^   .   ^   .

  Em(9)           Bm7     G        C(9)addF#
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WHEN SHE'S GONE (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
---------------------------------------
[Actually in F; capo 5.]
[The lines that are just F and C actually have some F(9)'s and C(9)'s in
 them; that's all spelled out at the end.]

F                       C
  She threw her purse upon the bed
F                         C
  She looked around and shook her head
F                         C
  There's really nothing left, she said
G                          C
  There's nothing I ain't done
F                          C
  She wore your favorite dress tonight
F                           C
  She hoped her hair would catch the light
F                       C
  And you just sat there gettin' tight
G                     C
  On double shots of rum

Am                    F
  You don't care what people say
G                      C
  They're gonna say it anyway
Am                    F
  You don't hear what you can't use
G                       C
  It's always been the same old news
Am                   F
  You don't beg and you don't plead
G                      C
  Or miss a thing that you don't need
F                 C
  She knew by the way you kissed her
G                  C
  When she's gone, you won't miss her

F    C     F    C     F    C     G    C
[instrumental]

Morning comes on an old cat's paws
And when the sun hits the walls
The light's as bright as it ever was
After or before
And you wince as waking pounds your head
And you drag your arm across the bed
And the tangled sheets and the twisted spread
Fall onto the floor

And the kitchen table finds you silent
If you had a thought, now you can't find it
You take a long drag on your smoke
And taste your coffee growing cold
She didn't beg and you didn't plead
She knew exactly how to leave
The way she knew when you kissed her
When she's gone, you won't miss her

She didn't beg and you didn't plead
She knew exactly when to leave
The way she knew as you kissed her
When she's gone, you won't miss her

F    C     F    C     F    C     G    C
[Instrumental; repeat and fade]


   Here's the strumming pattern for most of the song.  The funny-looking
lines are musical notes.  The numbers above the notes are just the relative
durations, for the benefit of the notationally impaired.
   The first chord of each line is actually just a single note, or perhaps
just the two or three lowest strings.  The last C(9) in the first two lines
is only played sometimes; other times, it's just an eighth note at the end
of the measure, and other times there's _no_ chord after the C*.

   F: x33211 or 133211 (fret the E string with your thumb)
   F(9): x33011 or 133011 (fret the E string with your thumb)
   C(9): 330010
   C*: hammer-on (quickly) from 330010 to 332010
   C: 332010
   G: 320003
   Am: x02210


 2     1  1  1  1      2           3           3           2
 |     +--+--+--+      |           |           |           |
 |     |  |  |  |      |           |           |           |
/     /  /  /  /      /           / .         / .         /
F     F  F  F  F(9)  F(9)        C(9)         C*         C(9)

 2     1  1  1  1      2           3           3           2
 |     +--+--+--+      |           |           |           |
 |     |  |  |  |      |           |           |           |
/     /  /  /  /      /           / .
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WHAT YOU DIDN'T SAY (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
-------------------------------------------
[Actually in Bb; capo 3]
[Each chord is one measure]
[Some of the C's might be C(9)'s, among other variations...]


Gmaj7  G6  Gmaj7  G6  C  C  Gmaj7  G6
[intro]

      Gmaj7         G6
I can read your eyes just like a book
Gmaj7                          G6
  You tell me different, but I know that look
    C                    C                        Gmaj7  G6
And I don't have to guess what's between the lines

So what in the world am I still doing here
You push me away when I get too near
Saying love's too simple to analyze

D              C
  So why do I feel confused
D           C
  Why do I feel so used
         C               C           Am
  Like a worn-out thought you threw away
   D                                    Gmaj7  G6        Gmaj7  G6
It wasn't what you said, it's what you           didn't say

Where are the windows, where are the doors?
I haven't the key to your heart anymore
I haven't a clue to what's gone wrong

'Cause you look at me sometimes as if I weren't there
You say you're listening, but you never hear
The strains of silence have grown so strong

I never wanted to doubt you
But I'd be better off without you
I'm no good at looking the other way
It wasn't what you said, it's what you didn't say

Em               C
  So look at me one last time
D                      G
  With eyes that still know how to shine
Em                 C
  Hold me like you won't let go
    Am            D    Gmaj7  G6  Gmaj7  G6  (etc.)
But you let go anyway

No one belongs where they're not wanted
You're just a ghost, and my heart is haunted
When I said goodbye, you didn't even beg me to stay
It wasn't what you said, it's what you didn't say
No baby, it wasn't what you said, it's what you didn't say

Tab for intro and verse (not every note is included):

  Gmaj7            G6               Gmaj7            G6
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G 0---0-----------|----0-----------|----0-----------|----0-----------|
D --0---4---------|--0--02-----0---|--0---4---------|--0--02-----0---|
A ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E 3---------------|3-------3-------|3---------------|3-------3-------|
  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .

  C                C                Gmaj7            G6
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B ------1---------|------1---0-----|----------------|----------------|
G ----0-------0---|----0-----------|----0-----------|----0-----------|
D --2-------------|--2-------------|--0---4---------|--0--02-----0---|
A 3---------------|3---------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|----------------|3---------------|3-------3-------|
  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .

- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com

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WALKING THROUGH FIRE (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
--------------------------------------------
[This song is actually in the key of A, then it switches to B; I'm guessing
 that Mary Chapin plays it in G & A with a capo on the second fret.]
[On a single guitar, you can do a pretty good rendition of the descending
 pattern in C(9)-D by playing C(9) as x30010 and then changing to x30000
 right before the D.  For D(9) (in the latter part of the song), play it
 as xx0230, and then xx0220 right before the E.]
[Each chord is half a measure.]

G  G  C(9) D    G  G  C(9) D    G  G  C(9) D    G  G  C(9) D
[intro]

G  G              C(9)          D    G  G              C(9)      D
   When you set a match to your heart, fueling it with bitterness and doubt
G  G                     C(9)    D     G  G           C(9)          D
   That's the place that once it starts, no amount of tears can put out
Em7    Em7              D      D            C         C           D    D
   I know you're scared, but no one's spared when you play with matches
           G               G    C(9)  D
You got me walking through fire
           G               G    C(9)  D
You got me walking through fire

Maybe you've been burned by lovers, maybe you've been scarred by the pain
But baby, I'm not like the others, drawing moths to a flame
Spite is like a spark, crackling in the dark, consuming all it catches
And you got me walking through fire
You got me walking through fire to get to you
Got me walking through fire (walking through fire)
You got me walking through fire (walking through fire)

F          F        G        G      Bb       Bb        C         F
   You can see the toll it's taking, you can feel the faith it's shaking
Cm7        Cm7       F         F         Bb   Bb   D   D
   You can hear the heart it's breaking now

Em7  Em7   D  D   C  C   D  D   Bb  Bb   C  C   F  F   Esus  E
[guitar solo]
A  A  D(9)  E    A  A  D(9)  E
[instrumental lead-in to last verse; note key change]

A  A               D(9)          E     A  A            D(9)        E
   Baby, I've been burned by the fever,    I've been scorched by desire
A      A          D(9)       E              A    A        D(9)  E
   But baby, I am not your deceiver or your eloquent liar
F#m      F#m         E           E        D        D        Bm7   E
   Your jealous heart is tearing us apart, turning love to ashes
                A               A    D(9)  E
When you got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire to get to you
Got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire
You've got me walking through fire (walking through fire)
You've got me walking through fire (walking through fire)
         G          G      D(9)  E
As
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TOO TIRED (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
---------------------------------
[Capo 2.]
[Each chord is half of a measure]

D   D   D   D    D   D   D   D
[intro]

    D         D         D         D
Too tired to fight so I just gave in
     C        G/B          D/A    D/A
Last night I slept in your arms again
      D       D          D         D
And I felt my heart next to your skin
Am7  Am7          D     D
     Beatin' like crazy

     D             D          D       D
Been runnin' from something I can't explain
    C          G/B       D/A       D/A
It ain't just anger, it ain't just pain
       D      D           D       D
But it goes away when you call my name
Am7  Am7         D   D
     Callin' me baby
        C        G/B        D/A       D  D  D  D   D  D  D  D
But you ain't no good for a girl like me

I was doin' fine when I first met you
Swept me off my feet, next thing I knew
I was wonderin' where you'd gone off to
Leavin' me lonely

This town's too small for your kind of games
Pointin' fingers, namin' names
But I'm so far gone I'll take anything
That you can give me
          C        G/B        D/A       D   D   D7  D7
Still you ain't no good for a girl like me

     G        G          G          G      D    D   D   D
Last night I felt that I couldn't stand no more
      G       G             G          G       A7   A7   A7   A7
But I found myself standin' right here by your door

Too tired to care that you're bad for me
My heart says stay, but my head says leave
But I can't get far when I'm on my knees
Begging you baby
    C        G/B        D/A       D  D  D  D   D  D  D  D
You ain't no good for a girl like me

D   D   D   D     C   G/B  D/A   D/A
[instrumental]
D   D   D   D     Am7  Am7   D   D
[instrumental]
C   G/B   D/A     D   D   D7   D7
[instrumental]

Last night I felt that I couldn't stand no more
But I found myself standin' right here by your door

Too tired to fight so I just gave in
Last night I slept in your arms again
And I felt my heart next to your skin
Beatin' like crazy
Beatin' like crazy
Am7  Am7          G   G   G   G      D   D   D   D     C   G/B   D.
     Beatin' like crazy       Hey!   [instrumental ending...]

- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com

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THIS SHIRT (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
----------------------------------

[Capo 5; each chord is one measure]
[C=x32010; C(4)=x33010; C(9)/B=x20010; Am=x02210; Am/G=3x2210;
 Fmaj9=1x3010; G6=3x0000; Em=0x2000; C/G=3x2010; D9/F#=2x0210.]

C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B    C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B
[intro]

C                C(4)         C                C(9)/B
  This shirt is old and faded, all the color's washed away
C              C(4)                C             C(9)/B
  I've had it more damn years than I can count anyway
Am              Am/G          Fmaj9             G6
  I wear it beneath my jacket, with the collar turned up high
Am            Am/G           Fmaj9    G6             C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B
  So old I should replace it, but I'm not about to try

This shirt's got silver buttons, and a place upon the sleeve
Where I used to set my heart up right there where anyone could see
This shirt is the one I wore to every boring high school dance
Where the boys ignored the girls and we all pretended to like the band

Em                 Fmaj9          C                 G6
  This shirt was a pillow for my head on a train through Italy
Em                 Fmaj9                C              G6
  This shirt was a blanket beneath the love we made in Argeles
Em               Fmaj9                  C             G6
  This shirt was lost for three whole days in a town near Buffalo
Am                 C/G             D9/F#      G6            C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B
  Till I found the locker key in a downtown Trailways bus depot

This shirt is the one I lent you, and when you gave it back
It had a rip inside the sleeve where you rolled your cigarettes
It was the place I put my heart, now look at where you put a tear
I forgave your thoughtlessness, but not the boy who put it there

This shirt was the place your cat decided to give birth to five
And we stayed up all night watching, and we wept when the last one died
This shirt is just an old faded piece of cotton
Shining like memories inside those silver buttons

This shirt is a grand old relic with a grand old history
I wear it now for Sunday chores, cleaning house and raking leaves
I wear it beneath my jacket with the collar turned up high
So old I should replace it, but I'm not about to try

C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B
[repeat and fade]

TAB:

[Note that this tablature is just four-measure-long PIECES of tab
 that you string together to play the whole song.]
[All the chords have the same picking pattern with the thumb playing
 an alternating bass line.]


  C                C(4)             C                C(9)/B
E ------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|
B ----------1-----|----------1-----|----------1-----|----------1-----|
G --0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|
D ----2-------2---|----3-------3---|----2-------2---|----0-------0---|
A 3-------3-------|3-------3-------|3-------3-------|2-------2-------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
  (This shirt is old and faded, all the colors washed away...
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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)=002000; Dsus=000100; G(9)=020100;
 Em7(4)=220100; D/F#=400300; Gsus9=550300; Asus=x02300.]
[It sounds like there's a Bm chord in the guitar solo.  If so, play it
 like this: x20020.]

D  D(9)  Dsus  D     D  D(9)  Dsus  D
[intro]
G(9)  G(9)  G(9)  G(9)     D  D(9)  Dsus  D     D  D(9)  Dsus  D
[intro]

   D                D(9)         Dsus                  Dsus
If you ever need to hear a voice in the middle of the night
        D          D(9)        Dsus    Dsus
when it seems so black outside that you can't remember
 G(9)        G(9)      G(9)             G(9)      D     D(9)     Dsus   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     Asus       Asus  Asus  Asus
Baby, here's that hand, and baby's here's my voice that's calling

      D   D(9)  Dsus  D    Em7(4)        Em7(4)   Asus   Asus
This is love,              all that ever was and will be
      D   D(9)  Dsus  D    D   D(9)  Dsus  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)     G(9)     G(9)                 G(9)
  And I see you still and there's this catch in my
   Asus        Asus         Asus          Asus
throat; And I just swallow hard till it leaves me
G(9)      G(9)             G(9)             G(9)
  There's nothing in this world that can change what we know
Asus      Asus        Asus     Asus      G(9)  G(9)  G(9)  G(9)
Still I know I am here if you ever need me

          D   D(9)   Dsus   D    Em7(4)  Em7(4)  Asus   Asus
And this is love [guitar solo]
D   D(9)   Dsus   D    Em7(4)  Em7(4)  Asus
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THE MORE THINGS CHANGE (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
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[Capo 3]
[Each chord is one measure]
[Actually, the Em's almost sound like E5's and the A's in the verse
 sound like A5's...]

Em  Em  Em  Em
[intro]

       Em                Em
Well I think of you sometimes at night
    Em                        Em
And sometimes it's still the same
    Em                   Em                B7           B7
The way that it was when I was the keeper of your flame
   Em                       Em
We all have our ghosts, we all have our doubts
A                     G
I'm no different with you or without
    Em                   B7                    Em    Em
But one thing's certain: only the names have changed

And I think of you sometimes baby
When an old friend gives a call
And to hear us talk you'd think I felt nothing at all
'Cause nothing remains that used to be yours
We all have our way of closing the door
But it takes some time to get up when you fall

            A                   G
But I'm the same sweet girl you couldn't get enough of
Em                  A
Way back when you pledged your love
Em                     Em                         B7   B7
   And you'd drive to find me through the pouring rain
      A                   G
Now I hear all about your running around
Em                      A
Man you're a legend all over town
      Em                    B7                    Em  Em
The more things change, the more they remain the same

[Guitar solo, same chords as verse]

Sometimes I wonder if you've ever heard
The sound of a broken heart
It ain't real pretty, it ain't the thing the nice folks talk about
And the hardest thing you'll ever have to do
Is face the one who's done it to you
His eye's like an angel's, they're so devout

But I'm the same sweet girl you couldn't get enough of
Way back when you pledged your love
And you'd drive to find me through the pouring rain
Now I hear all about your running around
Man you're a legend all over town
The more things change, the more they remain the same

Now I hear all about your running around
Man you're a legend all over town
The more things change, the more they remain the same

- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com