There We Are tab - james taylor

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There We Are
Words and Music by James Taylor
(c) 1977, 1978 Country Road Music

C69
Listen to me and I'll sing you a song 
                                                       F/G
and the time will go by till you never know where it's gone
Bbmaj7              F/Bb             E/A
Talk to me and I'll tell you my life story
Dmaj7                 F/G                   G/C
Walk with me and I'll tell you my dreams of glory
Eb
There we are
Gm7      F/Bb   Csus4 C  Gm7      F/Bb    G/C
Walking hand in hand,    somewhere on the sand
       Fmaj7                   Em7         A7-9    F/Bb   F#/B
at the end of the land and the edge of the shining sea

C69
Drifting through time and space on the face of 
                                      F/G
a little blue ball falling around the sun
Bbmaj7   F/Bb             E/A                             Dmaj7
One in a million billion twinkling lights shining out for no one
F/G          G/C
      in the middle of the night
Eb
Here we are
Gm7      F/Bb   Csus4 C  Gm7      F/Bb    G/C
sparks in the darkness, speaking of our love
Fmaj7          Em7   A7-9    F/Bb  -- F#/B G/C G#/C#
burning down forever and forever

A/D                  G/A              Dmaj7                 F/G
Oh I don't know if I told you but you hold my heart in your hand
Cmaj7        G/C                  F/G
       And I found out something about you; 
             Bbmaj7      F/Bb     E/A F/Bb F#/B
baby, without you, I'm a lonely man

C69
So though I never say that I love you, 
                                          F/G
I love you, darling I do, Carly I do love you
    Bbmaj7           F/Bb           E/A 
And though we are as nothing to the stars that shine above
           Dmaj7     F/G        G/C
You are my universe; you are my love
Eb
Here we are
     Gm7    F/Bb Csus4 C          Gm7     F/Bb  G/C
like children forever,     taking care of one another
          Fmaj7             Em7    A7-9   F/Bb
While the world goes on without us all around us
F/Bb F#/B G/C G#/C# A/D Bb/Eb B/E C/F

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 C69: x32233
 F/Bb: x13211
 E/A:  x02100
 G/C:  x35433
 Csus4:x3x011
 A7-9: x02323
 F#/B: x24322
 G/A:  x05433
 A/D:  xx0220
 Bb/Eb:xx1331

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Carolina In My Mind - James Taylor cover James Taylor is a singer/songwriter who has earned 40 gold, platinum, and multi-platinum awards for his songs and albums. He's a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the prestigious Songwriter's Hall of Fame, and has received Billboard magazine's Century Award for distinguished creative achievement. In 1971, Time magazine featured him on its cover and called him the harbinger of the singer/songwriter era. Some of his most well-known songs include "Fire and Rain," "Country Road," "Something In The Way She Moves," "Mexico," "Shower the People," "Walking Man," "Sweet Baby James," "Never Die Young," "Copperline," and of course, "Carolina In My Mind." Life in Chapel Hill Born in Boston in 1948, James Taylor came to Chapel Hill with his family when he was three years old. He began writing music in the mid 1960's while a student at a New England boarding school, far removed from his family and friends in Chapel Hill. He eventually graduated from Chapel Hill High School. Isaac Taylor, James' late father, was for a time Dean of the UNC-Chapel Hill medical school. The James Taylor Bridge over Morgan Creek The recently-dedicated James Taylor Bridge spans Morgan Creek, down a steep slope from the house on Morgan Creek Road in Chapel Hill where James grew up. The museum lobbied the state to name the bridge in Mr. Taylor's honor. (Text below is excerpted from an article by David Perlmutt of the Charlotte Observer and life-long friend of James and the Taylor family. Thanks to Mr. Perlmutt for allowing us to reprint portions of his article here) Morgan Creek, down a steep slope from the former 11-room Taylor home on Morgan Creek Road, was mostly wooded and overgrown when Taylor was a boy. It crawled with snakes and lizards and poison ivy, with few houses in sight atop the slopes above. Years later, "the creek" - as it was simply known - inspired the hit song "Copperline," which Taylor wrote with Duke University professor and author Reynolds Price. The refrain goes: "Half a mile down to Morgan Creek, Leaning heavy on the end of the week, Hercules (the family dog) and a hog-nosed snake, Down on Copperline, We were down on Copperline." Before co-writing the song, Taylor visited his old home and found "spec houses" lining the hills that overlook the creek. As the song continues: "I tried to go back, as if I could, All spec houses and plywood, Tore up and tore up good, Down on Copperline." Chapel Hill Influences Many of Taylor's confessional songs provide glimpses of his abundant boyhood surroundings. In a 2000 interview with The Charlotte Observer, he attributed much of his creative energy to those surroundings. "What I remember most about Chapel Hill is the landscape," he said shortly before his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "I tell my kids that we were pre-TV and there was a lot of empty time there, slow weekends when you just walked into the woods and found whatever you could to kill time. "There was this long, uninterrupted time to let your imagination grow. I believe that was an important part of whatever creative life I've had."

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