Chords for Tapestry - Carole King (81.121.02)

[F] My life has [Gm] been a tapestry [F] of rich and royal hue
[C] _ [F] An everlasting _ vision of [Am] the ever [F]-changing _ hue
[Gm] _ Wondrous [C] woven magic _ [Gm] in bits of blue [C] and gold
[Bb] A _ tapestry [Am] to feel and see, [Gm] _ impossible [C] to hold
_ [F] _ Once amid [C] the soft [Gm] _
[F] silver sadness in the [Gm] sky _
[F] There came a man [C] of [Gm] fortune, [F] a drifter [C] passing [F] _ by
[Gm] He wore a torn [C] and tattered cloth [Gm] around his leathered [C] hide
And [Bb] a coat of many [Am] _ colors, yellow [Gm]-green on either _ [C] side _
[Gm] He _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] moved with some _ uncertainty as if he didn't _ know _
Just what he was there for or where he ought to go
_ _ [C] Once he reached [G] for something _ [F] golden hanging from a [C] tree
_ And [F] his hand came down [Bb] empty _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] Soon within my [Gm] _
tapestry [Am] along the rutted [C] road
[F] He sat down on a river [C] rock and turned into a [F] toad
It seemed that he had [C] fallen _ into [Bb] someone's [C] wicked spell
_ [Bb] And I wept to see [Am] him suffer, though I did not know [C] him well
_ [Gb] As I watched in sorrow [Db] there suddenly _ appeared
[Gb] A figure gray and [B] ghostly [Gb] beneath the flowing _ beard
[Abm] In times of deepest _ [Db]
darkness [Abm] I've seen him dressed [Db] in black
Now [B] my _ tapestry's [Bbm] unraveling, he's come [B] to take [Db] me back
[Abm] He's come to take [Db] me _ _ _ _ back
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ So, thanks for sharing this with us.
_ _ For you.
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_ [D] _ _ I grew up in Brooklyn and was basically raised on [Gbm] chicken soup and piano [Am] lessons. _
Music was [C] always an important [G] part of my life and even as a kid I [F] was kind of a ham.
_ I had a pretty [C] normal childhood, like when my parents would say A, I would do B.
_ But when it came to me and music, we all pretty much agreed.
_ _ Then I entered the age of poodle [G] skirts, _ [C] ponytails, _ parties and [Em] proms.
In the [Fm] 50s, while everyone was rocking around the clock, I started [C] writing my own songs. _ _
_ [G] I was going to be a teacher and [F] marry some nice doctor.
_ _ Instead, I married [G] Jerry Goffin. _
_ In [A] 1960, we had our [F] first child, Louise, and [Bb] while Jerry worked, I [F] was at home with the baby.
_ [Eb] _ _ [F] Traditional [Bb] male-female roles.
[Gb] _ [Ab] We were also writing to try to make it to free [F] ourselves of the 9 to 5.
Will You Love Me Tomorrow was [Gb] a big hit and it went to number one and we were [Bb] delighted
because then we could [F] devote ourselves to working on songs full [B] time.
Except I [F] was still taking care of the [G] child and the house as [Bm] well.
_ [G] But that was [Gb] _ fine.
[F] It worked out fine.
_ _ _ _ [G] We just had [Gb] Louise at the time and [Bb] it got to the point where we were spending a lot of time in the studio [Gb] making demos.
I used to bring Louise [Bb] to the studio in her little playpen and she'd rock and roll,
which she's [C] still doing to this day [D] on her own. _
_ _ It got to be kind of hard to do both, so little Eva came to stay with Louise. _