DEAD MAN WALKING (A DREAM LIKE THIS) [Mary Chapin Carpenter]
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[Actually in D; capo 5.]
[The guitar is tuned C#AEG#BE; if you don't want to break your strings,
you can put the capo on 7 and tune to BGDF#AD.]
F#m(9) Amaj9/C# D6(9) E
E |--------------0-|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B |----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|----------0-----|
G#|------0---------|------0-------0-|------1-------0-|------0-------0-|
E |----5-------5---|----5-------0---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
A |--------4-------|--------4-------|--------0-------|----------------|
C#|5---------------|0---------------|0=1-------------|3-------3-------|
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
[intro: 8 measures (play these 4 measures twice)]
You never had a dream like this, never felt the cold cold steel
Slam you like a fist, break you down until you kneel
C#m7 D6(9) [x3] C#m7 E
E || ----------------|---------------- || ----------------|----------------|
B ||.----------0-----|----------0-----.|| ----------0-----|----------0-----|
G#|| ------0-------0-|------1-------0- || ------0-------0-|------0---------|
E ||.----4-------0---|----0-------0---.|| ----4-------0---|----0-------0---|
A || --------4-------|--------0------- || --------4-------|----------------|
C#|| 0---------------|0=1------------- || 0---------------|3-------3-------|
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Just like a beggar man,
asking only for redemption
All the things that can make a man believe in heaven
F#m(9) Amaj9/C# D6(9) E
[instrumental: 4 measures]
F#m(9) Amaj9/C# D6(9) E
Fix your eyes upon the bars, memorize their other side
F#m(9) Amaj9/C# D6(9) E
Like the tattoos on your arms, the brag so loud and tough that night
C#m7 D6(9) C#m7 D6(9)
But now the truth comes out, fast as fear can do your talking
C#m7 D6(9) C#m7 E
It sets you free as one guard shouts, "dead man walking"
A(9) C#m D6(9) E
E |--------------0-|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B |----------0-----|----------------|----------0-----|----------0-----|
G#|------1---------|----------0-----|------1-------0-|------0-------0-|
E |----0-------0---|------5-------0-|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
A |0-------0-------|----7-------7---|--------0-------|--------2-------|
C#|----------------|0-------0-------|0=1-------------|3---------------|
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
When neither light nor darkness, when neither night or day
A(9) C#m D6(9) E
E |0-----0---------|0---------------|----------------|----------------|
B |--0-------0-----|----------------|----------0-----|0---------0-----|
G#|----------------|----------0-----|------1-------0-|------0-------0-|
E |----5-------5---|------5-------0-|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
A |0-------0-------|----7-------7---|--------0-------|-------2--------|
C#|----------------|0-------0-------|0=1-------------|3---------------|
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
When neither kind nor heartless, when neither lost or saved
A(9) C#m D6(9) E
When neither still or moved, when neither held or free
D6(9) E D6(9) E
Oh, to be so human
Dead man walking [16-bar instrumental, F#m-A-D-E series repeated]
A(9) C#m D6(9) E
When neither light nor darkness, when neither night or day
A(9) C#m D6(9) E
When neither kind nor heartless, when neither lost or saved
A(9) C#m D6(9) E
When neither still or moved, when neither held or free
D6(9) E D6(9) E
Oh, to be so human, oh to be
F#m(9) Amaj9/C# D6(9) E
Somewhere in a dream like this where light of love leads us home
F#m(9) Amaj9/C# D6(9) E
Broken worlds will not be fixed, if vengeance take us as thy own
C#m7 D6(9) C#m7 D6(9)
We're just like beggars now, on our knees we hear our names
C#m7 D6(9) C#m7 E
God forgives somehow, we have yet to learn the same
[16-bar instrumental, end on last E chord.]
- transcribed by Adam Schneider, http://adamschneider.net/
