If I Were a Carpenter Chords

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If I Were a Carpenter by Robert Plant is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, C, G and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
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  			INTRO 
D (C  G  D) 2X  

  D                           C                         G          D  
If I were a carpenter        and you were a lady  
D                     C                       G                                        D  
Would you marry me anyway,     would you have my baby?  
 D                                 C                             G                D  
If a tinker were my trade,        would you still love me?  
D                                  C                   G               D  
Carrying the pots I made,    following behind me  

Refrão  

C                                   D  
Save my love through loneliness,  
C                            D  
Save my love for sorrow;   
      D                             C          Am  
I've given you my onliness--  
G                                    D        
Give me your tomorrows.  
D                                       C                  G                        D  
If I worked my hands in wood,      would you still love me  
D                                   C                       G                           D  
Answer me, babe, yes, I would,   I would put you above me  
   D                  C                   G                       D  
If I were a miller          at a mill wheel grinding  
D                                  C                     G                                  D  
Would you miss your colored box,    your soft shoes shining? 

    	

Chord diagrams

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