Carole King - Tapestry guitar tab

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 20:03:17 +0100 (CET)

From: Peter Eybert

Subject: CRD: Tapestry by Carole King

Tapestry

written and performed by Carole King

from "Tapestry", 1971

transcribed by Peter Eybert

(Capo 1)

E B7 E B7

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue,

E B7 E B7

an everlasting vision of the everchanging view,

F#m7 B A B

a wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold,

Amaj7 G#m7 F#m B7

a tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.

Emaj7 B9 Emaj7 B9

Once amid the soft silver sadness in the sky

E B9 E B7

there came a man of fortune, a drifter passing by

F#m7 B A B

he wore a torn and tattered cloth around his leathered hide

Amaj7 G#m7 F#m B7 F#m7 B7

and a coat of many colors, yellow-green on either side.

G D7sus D7 Gmaj7 D7

He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know

G D7sus D7 Gmaj7 D7

just what he was there for, or where he ought to go

B Gb7 Abm7 B

once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree

Emaj7 Gb

and his hand came down - empty.

E B7 E B7

Soon within my tapestry along the rutted road

E B7 E B7

he sat down on a river rock and turned into a toad,

F#m7 B A B

it seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell,

Amaj7 G#m7 F#m B7

and I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well.

F C7 F C7

As I watched in sorrow, there suddenly appeared

F C7 F C7

a figure gray and ghostly beneath a flowing beard

Gm7 C Bb C

in times of deepest darkness, I've seen him dressed in black

Bbmaj7 Am7 Gm C7

now my tapestry's unravelling; he's come to take me back,

Gm7 D9sus Dm7/4

he's come to take me back.

F C7 F C7 F.

D9sus = x00553

Dm7/4 = x00011

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