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You’ve Been a Friend to Me

Carter Family

 

Capo 3

 

Intro:  / D - - - / A7 - - - / D - - - / - - - - /

 

       D (2)              G (2)                                

My arc of life was drifting down

       D (2)              A7 (2)

the troubled sea of time

          D (2)                 G (2)                                

Since first I saw your smiling face and

  D            A7       D     D7

youth was in its prime

 

Chorus:

      G (2)                 D (2)

I'll ne’er forget where’er I roam

       D (2)              A7 (2)

wherever you may be

       D (2)        G (2)

If ever I have had a friend

             D             A7       D (2)

you've been that friend to me

 

Instrumental Verse

 

      D (2)                 G (2)

Misfortune used me as her child and

 D (2)                 A7 (2)

loved me fondly too

    D (2)                    G (2)

I would have had a broken heart

      D         A7         D     D7

had it not been for you

 

Chorus

 

Instrumental Verse

 

     D (2)                G (2)

I now look back upon the past

     D (2)                      A7 (2)

across life's troubled sea

          D (2)                        G (2)

And smile to think through all I've seen

               D       A7        D     D7

you've been a friend to me

 

Chorus, end on 3rd beat of last measure


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This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song.  It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.


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