MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER - "come on" Tablature

I learned this song from watching Mary-Chapin Carpenter play it on "Austin
City Limits". Hope this helps! Thanks to MCC for the free guitar lessons!!

Transcribed by Julie Tissue (1993).

I have "tab"ed the chords out and assigned them each a number. Then over
the lyrics, I placed the chord number to be played.

Tuning ("borrowed" from performance on "Austin City Limits")

D A D G F# D To tune guitar, follow this numerical order:
0 s s s 2 1 "0" make low E into low D
a a a "1" drop high E to D (same octave as D played on B string)

m m m "2" make F# same octave as F# played on D string
e e e (half step below open G-string note)

Capo - 3rd fret

Chord structure

#1 #2 #3
o o o o o o o o o o o o o
___________ 3 (Capo) ___________ 3 ___________ 3
| | | | x | | | | | x | | | | | | |
----------- 4 ----------- 4 ----------- 4
| x | | | | | | | | | | | | | x | |
----------- 5 ----------- 5 ----------- 5
| | | | | | | x | | | | | | | | | |
----------- 6 ----------- 6 ----------- 6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- 7 ----------- 7 ----------- 7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- 8 ----------- 8 ----------- 8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- 9 ----------- 9 ----------- 9


#4 #5 #6
o o o o o o o
___________ 8 fret ___________ 8 fret ___________ 3 (capo)
| | | | x | | | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- 9 ----------- 9 ----------- 4
x x x | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- 10 ----------- 10 ----------- 5
| | | | | | | | | | x | | | | | x |
----------- 11 ----------- 11 ----------- 6
| | | | | | x x x | | | x | | | | |
----------- 12 ----------- 12 ----------- 7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | x | | | |
----------- 13 ----------- 13 ----------- 8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- 14 ----------- 14 ----------- 9


#7 #8 #9
o o o o o o o o o o o o
___________ 3 (Capo) ___________ 3 ___________ 3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | x |
----------- 4 ----------- 4 ----------- 4
| x | | | | x | | | | | x | | | | |
----------- 5 ----------- 5 ----------- 5
| | | | | | | x | | | | | x | | | |
----------- 6 ----------- 6 ----------- 6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- 7 ----------- 7 ----------- 7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- 8 ----------- 8 ----------- 8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
----------- 9 ----------- 9 ----------- 9

#10
o o o
___________ 3 (Capo)
| | | | | |
----------- 4
x x x | | |
----------- 5
| | | | | |
----------- 6
| | | | | |
----------- 7
| | | | | |
----------- 8
| | | | | |
----------- 9



"Come On Come On" -> Mary-Chapin Carpenter

Intro - #1 #2 #1 #3


#1 #2 #1 #3 #1 #2 #1 #3
Some people remember the first time, some can't forget the last

#4 #5 #6
Some just select what they want to from the past

#1 #2 #1 #3 #1 #2 #1 #3
It's a song that you danced to in high school, it's a moon you try to bring down

#4 #5 #6 #1 #7
On a four in the morning drive through the streets of town. 1 strum 1 strum


Chorus

#8 #9 #3 #1
Come on come on, it's getting late now

#8 #9 #3 #1
Come on come on, take my hand

#8 #9 #3 #1
Come on come on, you just have to whisper

#8 #9 #3 #1
Come on come on, I will understand


#1 #2 #1 #3 (like intro)


#1 #2 #1 #3 #1 #2#1 #3
It's a photograph taken in Paris at the end of the honeymoon

#4 #5 #6
In 1948, late in the month of June

#1 #2 #1 #3 #1 #2 #1 #3
Your parents smile for the camera in sienna shades of light

#4 #5 #6 #1 #7
Now you're older than they were then that summer night (1 strum 1 strum)


To Chorus


Bridge

#9 #10
It's a need you never get used to, so fierce and so confused

#9 #3
It's a loss you never get over the first time you lose


Break (like Chorus)


#1 #2 #1 #3 #1 #2 #1 #3
And tonight I am thinking of someone seventeen years ago

#4 #5 #8 #9
We rode in his daddy's car down the river road (leads into Chorus...)


To Chorus (twice)

Repeat Chorus once as instrumental