Chords for Mary Chapin Carpenter - Songs From Home Episode 6: The Blue Distance

_ Hi everybody, welcome back.
Songs from Home.
We're in the living room today.
Someone is
taking a little nap. _
White Kitty is also taking a nap.
There are a lot of naps in our house.
I don't know how to explain that other than that's kind of just the way it is out here
at the farm.
So glad you've joined us.
So happy to be playing another song today for you.
Hope everyone is doing great, staying mighty.
And let's see, I don't really have any, you know,
groundbreaking news, anything like that.
Each day is pretty much the same, [D] which actually is
good for somebody like me.
I [B] rely on routine, a kind of routine to keep me sane.
And so [Db] we wake
up, we drink a lot of good coffee, _ check emails, glance at the news, try not to go too far down
the rabbit hole of news. _
_ I'm lucky enough to do some online yoga and run and that sort of thing,
exercise, and then take that one out for a long, long walk about 400 times a day.
We do that.
And, you know, doing some cooking and _ _ _ re-reading one of my favorite novels of all time by Geraldine
Brooks, one of my favorite authors as well.
It's called The Year of Wonders, Year of Wonders.
And it's based on a true story.
It's extraordinary.
_ And it's certainly a novel for our time.
So I
urge you to go to whatever portal you get your books from and find it.
[D] It's extraordinary.
[N] Also, there's just been so much great music being posted.
One of my favorite new shows,
if you can call it that, is by my friend Tiff Merritt.
She has a wonderful show called Nightcap
with Tiff.
After she puts her young daughter down for bed, she turns the video camera on and plays
her amazing music.
I think it's so beautiful.
So recommending that.
And well, there's so many
others.
And my friend Jennifer Ely, the incredible actor, she's reading Pride and Prejudice.
And the character that she played, of course, in the great BBC production of Pride and Prejudice,
she played Lizzie Bennet, of course.
So she's reading Pride and Prejudice for you.
There's so many things out there to spend your time with to try to get your mind away from.
A lot of the hard stuff that is a part of our every day now.
So anyway, I'm just glad to see
you all.
And this next song has been requested a number of times.
And I apologize if I don't get
to all of the songs that have been requested. _
[B] _ I'm just so thrilled to see all of them.
And I
apologize if I don't get to the one that you'd like to hear.
But at any rate, I hope you'll still
[Eb] enjoy this song.
[N] Which, you know, again, I just sort of find the way things connect to what's
going on.
You know, I suppose we can find those connections anywhere we look.
And the chorus of
this one speaks to [Db] all need from one another, of course, no matter what the distance.
And the song
is called The [Eb] Distance. _ _ _
[Bb] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[Bb] _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] Across the [Eb] railroad tracks, [Ab] down the gravel [Eb] road, _ [F] headlights roll me [Ab] straight back home.
[Bb] Lie down, [Eb] lie down, [Ab] listen wide [Eb] awake [Bb] to the [Eb] trains that roll.
[Ab] To the sound of time, [Bb] it passes through [Eb] the air [Ab] like a summer [Eb] storm.
_ [Bb] Catching on my seat [Ab] like a poet's history.
_ [Bb] Sometimes it [Eb] whispers, _
[Ab] sometimes [Eb] it roars.
_ [Bb] Flies like the wind, [Ab] waits by the door.
And I know you [Eb] know, [Cm] and that's all [Eb] I need.
[Ab] When the light of day [Gm] looks like night to me.
[Ab] When you're far [Eb] away and I'm all alone,
_ [Ab] can't [Eb] explain.
[Bb] I [Eb] know _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ it [F] fills up my [Eb] chest, it [Ab] fills up [Eb] my eyes.
[Bb] Like a [Cm] snowglass jar filled [Ab] with fireflies.
[Bb] Sometimes [Eb] I'm still, [Ab] sometimes [Eb] I sigh.
[Bb] Sometimes [Eb] I'm lost, [Ab] and I don't know [Bb] why.
[Ab] But I know [Eb] you know, [Cm] and that's [Eb] all I need.
[Ab] When the light [Eb] of day [Gm] looks like night to me.
When you're far [Eb] away and I'm all alone,
_ [Bb] can't explain.
_ [Eb] Oh, you know. _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] You know, [Eb] _ before [Ab] the taints were thin, [Bb] called the dogs to run where [Ab] the shade has been.
Across [Bb] the railroad [Bb] tracks, laid [Ab] your [Eb] silver down,
[Bb] by its smooth and [Eb] flat, [Ab] stars for your ground.
[F] In the blue [Bb] distance, where [Ab] our [Bb] lives unfurl,
the images of [Eb] the sky, the beauty of the world.
[F] _ Oh, you know, and [Cm] that's all I [Eb] need.
When the [Eb] light of day looks [Gm] like night to me.
[Bb] When we're [Eb] far away and [Cm] we're all alone,
_ [Eb] can't explain.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [Cm] Stay mighty, everyone.
_ We'll see you the next time. _ _