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If I Were a Carpenter
Keeper Of The Flame
Stefan Schwabe (schwabe@operamail.com)
D A D G A D
Derived from the version of Bram Manck

If I Were a Carpenter

Chords: 
      D     D'    D''   Dsus4  C      G     D(2)    Em     A
D  ---0-----0-----0-----0------0------0-----0-------0------0
A  ---0-----0-----0-----0------0------0-----0-------0------0
G  ---7-----12----11----7------9------4-----11------0------6
D  ---0-----0-----0-----5------0------0-----0-------2------0
A  ---5-----10----9-----5------10-----5-----12------2------7
D  ---0-----0-----0-----0------10-----5-----0-------2------7

            C        G               D Dsus4 D
If I were a carpenter and you were a lady
                   C      G                  D Dsus4 D
Would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby? 
            C     G                D Dsus4 D
If I were a miller at a mill wheel grinding
                    C             G                   D Dsus4 D
Would you miss your colored blouse, your soft shoes shining? 

 
D(2)  
Save my love through loneliness
C                D(2)
Save my love for sorrow
                  C        G
I've given you my only-ness
               D Dsus4 D
Give me your tomorrows 

 
2 x
D  ------------------------
A  ------------------------
F# -----------2--[2-3-4]---
D  ---[2-3-4]------------2-
A  ------------------------
D  ------------------------
[] = Hammer-ons

 
Em  A

D  ----------------------0-
A  ------------------------
F# -----------2--[2-3-4]---
D  ---[2-3-4]--------------
A  ------------------------
D  ------------------------


D D' D''

 
            C     G                    D Dsus4 D
If I were a tinker, would you come and find me?
                    C              G             D Dsus4 D
Would you carry the things I'd made, walk along aside me 
               C             G                D Dsus4 D
If I worked my hands in wood, could you still love me
                     C             G                 D Dsus4 D
Would you answer me "yes I would", would you be above me

 
D(2)
Save my love from loneliness
(tacet)
Save my love from sorrow
                  C        G
I've given you my only-ness
                      D Dsus4
Please give me your tomorrows 

 

D(2)  
Save my love from loneliness
C                 D(2)
Save my love from sorrow
                  C         G
I've given you my only-ness
                      D      Dsus4 D
Please give me your tomorrows 


            C        G                    D       
If I were a carpenter and you were a lady