For A Dancer Chords

by Jackson Browne
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Difficulty: beginner
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2 contributors total, last edit on May 30, 2022

Chords

C
F
Am
C7
G

Strumming

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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
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4 comments
joeflanagan
Just discovered this song. Thanks for the great tab?
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captainciara
i can't believe this was posted when i was four years old...wow. anyway this is a great tab my friend, love this song and love you for getting it spot on!
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maciver
You're incorrect Malac. If you check the sheet music published by Warner Bros you will see the that A minors appear as set out in this version and that there are no E minors in the song.
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