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- IT DON'T BRING YOU (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
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- [Actually in F; capo up five frets. It's easier if you tune low E up to F.]
- [The whole song follows this same pattern, except at the end of the verses,
- it stays on Fmaj9 for an extra measure. The song ends on F.]
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- C C/B Am7 Am7/G Fmaj9
- E 0-----0-----0-----0-----|------0-----------0-----|
- B --1-----1-----1-----1---|--------1-----------1---|
- G ----0-----0-----0-----0-|------0---0-------0---0-|
- D ------------------------|----3-----------3-------|
- A 3-----2-----0-----------|--3-----------3---------|
- E ------------------3-----|1-----------1-----------|
- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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- C - C/B - Am7 - Am7/G Fmaj9
- Well I know it ain't been roses lately, baby, it's just been thorns
- And no matter what we do, nothing seems to change
- Love has always been my shelter, for you it's been a storm
- But for a while I thought we'd almost beat the rain
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- Now there's a hole here in my pocket where all my dreams have gone
- Fallen out like so many nickels and dimes
- And last of all you, you'd always been my good luck charm
- I should've known that luck's a waste of time
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- 'Cause it don't bring you love if you don't love
- And it don't bring you time if you ain't got time
- And it don't bring you strength, baby, if you ain't strong
- And it don't bring you kindness if you ain't kind
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- Now there's a whole lot of life to be unsure of
- But there's one thing I can safely say I know
- That of all the things that finally desert us
- Pride is always the last thing to go
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- But it won't bring you love if you don't love
- And it won't bring you time if you ain't got time
- And it won't bring you strength, baby, if you ain't strong
- And it won't bring you kindness if you ain't kind
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- Dm7 G C F Dm E+ - Fm6 C Gsus - G - G(9) - G
- [Guitar solo; see below]
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- And now I wish you only roses, baby, without the thorns
- And I hope your dreams are always within reach
- And I wish you shelter, baby, from all your storms
- They scared you, but they never seemed to teach
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- That I can't bring you love if you don't love
- And I can't bring you time if you ain't got time
- And I can't bring you strength, baby, if you ain't strong
- And I can't bring you kindness if you ain't kind
- And I can't bring you kindness if you ain't kind
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- Here's my rendition of the guitar solo ('t'aint perfect, I know):
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- ~ means bend it up a half-step, then back down again.
- // is a slide.
- There's a few hammer-ons/pull-offs that I couldn't notate because
- there was no room between the numbers; you can figure 'em out.
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- Dm7 Gsus G G/F F
- E ------|------------------------|------------------------|
- B --0-1-|1-------------------1310|1----10-----0-------0-1-|
- G 2-----|--2-2-------------------|----------------2-------|
- D ------|------------------------|--------------0---------|
- A ------|------------------------|------------------------|
- E +-----|+-----+-----+-----+-----|+-----+-----+-----+-----|
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- C F Dm
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- E --------------------0//3|31--------------------0-|1-----------------------|
- B ------------------01----|--1---------------1-3---|-3----------------5~5-35|
- G 0-----------------------|---2--------------------|--2---------------------|
- D ------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
- A ------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
- E +-----+-----+-----+-----|+-----+-----+-----+-----|+-----+-----+-----+-----|
- (bend)
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- E+ Fm6 C/G Gsus G G(9) G
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- E ------------------------|--------------------0---|------------------------|
- B 5-------31--31----------|------------------1---3-|1--31-0-----------------|
- G --------------1-----3-1-|0-----------------------|------------2-----0-----|
- D ------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
- A ------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
- E +-----+-----+-----+-----|+-----+-----+-----+-----|+-----+-----+-----+-----|
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- - Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu
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