WILLIAMS DAR - "after all" Tablature

a lovely song...
easy finger-picking style
such a good album for the soul.
boy i wish i could write like her!!
please feel free to email me with any suggestions,corrections,
(but i'm fairly certain this is on the money),ideas,jokes, etc...
laura~ mrspremise77@aol.com
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After All
~ Dar Williams~ "the green world"


C(add G) Fmaj7
go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold,
Dm7 F G C G
once upon a time i had control, and reigned my soul in tight.

C(add G) Fmaj7
well the whole truth, it's like the story of a wave unfurled,
Dm7
but i held the evil of the world,
F G
so i stopped the tide, froze it up from inside,

C(add G) Fmaj7
and it felt like a winter machine that you go through and then,
Dm7
you catch your breath and winter starts again,
F G C G
and everyone else is spring bound.

C(add G) Fmaj7
and when i chose to live, there was no joy, it's just a line i crossed
Dm7
it wasn't worth the pain my death would have cost
F G C G
so i was not lost or found.

C(add G) Fmaj7
and if i was to sleep, i knew my family had more truth to tell.
Dm7
and so i traveled down a whispering well,
F G C G
to know myself through them.

C(addG) Fmaj7
growing up, my mom had a room full of books, and hid away in there,
Dm7
her father raging down a spiral stair,
F G
till he found someone, most days his son,

C(add G) Fmaj7
and sometimes i think my father, too, was a refugee,
Dm7
i know they tried to keep their pain from me,
F G C G
they could not see what it was for.

C(add G)
but now i'm sleeping fine,
Fmaj7
sometimes the truth is like a second chance,
Dm7
i am the daughter of a great romance,
F G C G
and they are the children of the war.


(break) C(addG) Fmaj7 Dm7 F G C G


C(add G) Fmaj7
well the sun rose with so many colors, it nearly broke my heart,
Dm7
it worked me over like a work of art,
F G C G
and i was a part of all that.

C(add G) Fmaj7
so go ahead push your luck, say what it is you gotta say to me,
Dm7
we will push on into that mystery,
F G C G
and it'll push right back, and there are worse things than that,

C(add G) Fmaj7
cause for every price, and every penance that i could think of,
Dm7
it's better to have fallen in love,
F G C G
than never to have fallen at all,

C(add G) Fmaj7
cause when you live in a world, well it gets into who you thought you'd be,
Dm7
and now i laugh at how the world changed me,
F G C(add G) Em Am G C(add G) G C(add G)
i think life chose me after all.


(figured out by mrspremise)