Carpenter Mary Chapin

Carpenter Mary Chapin - A Keeper For Every Flame guitar tab

A KEEPER FOR EVERY FLAME (Mary Chapin Carpenter)

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[Actually in A; capo 2.]

[Each chord is half of a measure.]

[Standard tuning.]

G G C G C C Em/G D/A

[intro]

G G C G C C D G

[intro]

G G C G C C Em D

She says it's been so long, she can't remember when

G G C G C C D G

The mention of his name didn't make her feel again

G G C G C C Em D

That everything is possible and every day a brand new start

G G C G C C D G

Yeah, love's something powerful when it finds a willing heart

Bm Bm C C

Sometimes it's a fire burning out of control

Em Em C C

Sometimes it's a candle burning long and low

G G C G

All these years she never let it go

C C D G

There's a keeper for every flame

G G C G C C Em D

[instrumental]

G G C G C C D G

[instrumental]

There is someone in his past that he hasn't gotten over yet

Each day's like the last, he just misses what he can't forget

It's just an empty space where something used to be

Now he guards the gate, but he's lost the key

So no one enters, but no one leaves

There's a keeper for every flame

Bm Bm C C Em Em C C

[instrumental]

G G C G C C D G

[instrumental]

Thought my heart had broken, but it was just a little bruised

I thought love had spoken, I guess I was just confused

Sometimes we were a fire burning out of control

Sometimes we were nothing but a candle glow

But it never died, baby, how I know

There's a keeper for every flame

G G C G C C Em D G G C G C C D G

[instrumental; repeat and fade]

- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com

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