Chords for Guy Clark - "The Carpenter" [Live from Austin, TX]

_ _ [D#m] Let us now praise the carpenter [C#] and the things that he made
[B] And the way that he lived [C#] by the tools of the trade
_ [A#] I can still hear his [C#] hammer singing tenpenny time
[B]
Working by the hour [C#] till the day that he died
He [F#] was tough as a crowbar, he was quick as a chisel
[C#] Fair as a plane, [D#m] true [C#] as a level
[F#] He was straight as a chalk line, he was right as a rule
[C#] Square with the world, he [D#m] took good care [C#] of his [F#] tools
_ Lord, _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _
[C#] _ [D#] he worked his hands and wood [C#] from the crib to the coffin
[B] With a care and a love [C#] that you don't see too often
[D#m] And he built boats out of wood, big [C#] boats, working in a shipyard
[B] Mansions on a hill [C#] and a birdhouse in the backyard
_ [F#] He was tough as a crowbar, he was quick as a chisel
[C#]
Fair as a [D#] plane, true as a level
[F#] He was straight as a chalk line, he was right as a rule
[C#]
Square with the world, he [D#m] took good care of his [F#] tools _
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_ _ [D#m] _ _ [A#m] He said anything [D#] that's worth [C#] cutting down a tree [B] for
Is worth doing right, [C#] don't the Lord love a two-by-four _
_ [A#] And if you asked him how to do something, [C#] he'd say just like Noah built the ark
[B] You got to hold your mouth right, [C#] son, and never miss your mark
_ [F#] You be tough as a crowbar, you be quick as a chisel
[C#] Fair as a plane, [D#] true [C#] as a level
[F#] He's straight as a chalk line, you be right as a rule
[C#] Square with the world, [D#m] you take good [C#] care of your tools
You [F#] be tough as a crowbar, quick as a chisel
_ [C#] Fair as a plane, [A#] true [C#] as a level
[F#] He's straight as a chalk line, you be right as a rule
[C#] _ Square with the world, [D#] you take good [C#] care of your [F#] tools _ _
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[D#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
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_ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] Alright, thank you. _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ Thank you.
I had a new album come out around the first of the year, and the title song was a song I wrote with my wife Susanna and a friend of ours named Richard