Mary Chapin Carpenter – Travelers Prayer (Guitar)

G                  C          D
Here I am walking, far from familiar streets

G                   C           D
Looking for someone who might resemble me

G                     C             D          G      C  D
Whispering something, sounds like a traveler's prayer

       G                    C      D
Saying luck play your hand, I am a stranger here

G                 C                 D
Time be a friend, show me which way to steer

G                             C          D          G      C  G
Love show your face, with the grace of a traveler's prayer

           D
Maybe it's tucked in a journal you've carried for years

  C                      G         D
Engraved on a compass or long disappeared

    Em                      Bm                  C
The one in my head's always ready when I need a spare

  D
Reciting the words as I'm yearning for home

     C                           G           D
When daylight has left me by the side of the road

Em                   Bm               C     D
Nobody's hurting and nobody's cold anywhere

          G
In a traveler's prayer

    G                      C                    D
I'm scanning the skies for signs that we're not alone

G                      C           D
Signals and messages bound for the twilight zone

G                       C            D            G     C  D
Maybe they're wondering who keeps on waiting down there

               G                C               D
We're just the pale blue dot, a speck in an ink-black sky

      G                     C            D
Do we see with our hearts instead of our jaded eyes

G                             C          D          G
Imagine the world on a string and sing a traveler's prayer

          D
What if I heard my name called by a voice that I know

       C                    G        D
From a memory summoned from so long ago?

       Em                   Bm              C
I keep feeling the lately departed are everywhere

        D
Now the days race like swifts in the violet hour

C                    G              D
Veering and steering higher and and farther

Em                      Bm                    C   D
Oh, to be finally delivered on a warm gust of air

            G            C  G
It's a traveler's prayer

  D
Reciting the words as we're yearning for home

     C                            G          D
When darkness has found us at the end of the road

Em                   Bm               C     D
Nobody's hurting and nobody's cold anywhere

          G
In a traveler's prayer