Key of D with capo on 3rd fret
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#For A Dancer - JACKSON BROWNE
#From the 1974 album: Late For The Sky
#Sumbitted by D. Weil
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#The song is mainly played on a piano, but heres the guitar chords anyway. Pretty straight
#foreward, no tricky stuff and all basic open position chords. Just watch for the Am to
#C7 switch. Enjoy!
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# EADGBe
#C - 032010
F - 133211
G - 3x0003 or 320033
Am - x02210
C7 - x32310
CF
Keep a fire burning in your eye
CF
Pay attention to the open sky
CFCG
You never know what will be coming down
CF
I don't remember losing track of you
CF
You were always dancing in and out of view
CFCG
I must've thought you'd always be around
AmFC
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
G
Now you're nowhere to be found
CFCGCF
I don't know what happens when people die
CF
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
FCF
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
CG
That I can't sing - I can't help listening
CF
And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
CF
Crying as they ease you down
CFC
'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing
GAm
Dancing our sorrow away
F
Right on dancing
CG
No matter what fate chooses to play
C
There's nothing you can do about it anyway
FC
Just do the steps that you've been shown
FCG
By everyone you've ever known
AmC7
Until the dance becomes your very own
FG
No matter how close to yours
AmF
Another's steps have grown
CG
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone
CFCG
Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
AmFC
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
The world keeps turning around and around
GC
Go on and make a joyful sound
FC
Into a dancer you have grown
FCG
From a seed somebody else has thrown
AmC7F
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
FGAm
And somewhere between the time you arrive
F
And the time you go
CG
May lie the reason you were alive
But you'll never know
CFCGCGC