Jackson Browne – For A Dancer (Guitar)

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Chords

EADGBe C - 032010
F  -  133211 
G  -  3x0003  or  320033
Am - x02210 C7 - x32310 [Verse 1]
C                     F
  Keep a fire burning in your eye

C                      F
  Pay attention to the open sky

C                     F                    C    G
  You never know what will be coming down

C                         F
  I don't remember losing track of you

C                                F
  You were always dancing in and out of view

C                         F                 C    G
  I must've thought you'd always be around

Am                      F                         C 
  Always keeping things real by playing the clown

             G
  Now you're nowhere to be found
[Instrumental] C F C G [Verse 2]
C                                F
  I don't know what happens when people die

C                                F
  Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try

(F)           C                       F   
  It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear

               C                     G
  That I can't sing  -  I can't help listening

C                                 F
  And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round

C                F 
  Crying as they ease you down

C                          F                      C
  'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing

G                         Am
  Dancing our sorrow away

F
  Right on dancing

        C                   G 
          No matter what fate chooses to play

                                      C
  There's nothing you can do about it anyway
[Bridge]
       F                 C
  Just do the steps that you've been shown

     F               C            G
  By everyone you've ever known

 Am                     C7 
  Until the dance becomes your very own

F               G 
  No matter how close to yours 

Am                            F
  Another's steps have grown

         C                G 
  In the end there is one dance you'll do alone
[Instrumental] C F C G [Verse 3]
C                   F
  Keep a fire for the human race

C                            F
  Let your prayers go drifting into space

C                   F                    C    G
  You never know what will be coming down

C                         F
  Perhaps a better world is drawing near

C                           F
  And just as easily it could all disappear

C                   F                            C    G
  Along with whatever meaning you might have found

Am                F                    C
  Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
The world keeps turning around and around
     G                          C
  Go on and make a joyful sound
[Bridge]
    F           C 
  Into a dancer you have grown

         F             C               G     
  From a seed somebody else has thrown

Am                C7                         F
  Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own

F                 G                    Am 
  And somewhere between the time you arrive 

                   F
  And the time you go

              C                     G
  May lie the reason you were alive
But you'll never know [Outro] C F C G C G C