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Carry on wayward son

by kansas · posted by waynedf

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Half-step bend
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Tab
 5  5  6   7  -7  6    6 -6 6 -5
Car-ry on, my way-ward son;_______
5        6  6     7    -7    6   5 -4
there'll be peace when you__ are done__
5   6    6   7  -7     6  6 -6 6 -5
lay your wea-ry head__ to rest_____
5     -4  5   -4 4  4
don't you cry no___ more.
-3b  4 -4   4 -4   -3b -3b   -3b 3   -3b -3
Once i rose a-bove the noise and con-fu-sion
-3b  4  -4  4 -4      -3b     -4   4  4  -4
just to get a glimpse be-yond this il-lu-sion
-5 -5  5    -4  -4 4  5    -4 
 i was soar-ing ev-er high-er 
-5  -5 5    -4 4 -2
but  i flew to__ high.
-3b    4  -4   4     -3  -3b -3b   -3b
Though my eyes could see,  i still was 
3 -3b   -3
a blind man.
-3b    4  -4   4     -3    -3b 5     -4
Though my mind could think,  i still was
4 4   -4
a mad-man
-3b -5   -5  5    -4 -4   4   5     -4
 I  hear the voic-es when i'm dream-ing
-5 -5  5    5    6
 i can hear them say:
5   6  6   7  -7  6    6 -6 6 -5
car-ry on, my way-ward son;_______
5        6  6     7    -7    6   5 -4
there'll be peace when you__ are done.__
5   6    6   7  -7     6  6 -6 6 -5
lay your wea-ry head__ to rest;________
5     -4  5   -4 4  4
don't you cry no___ more.

REAPEAT TO VERSE 3:
masquerading as a man with a reason
my charade is the event of the season.
-3b-and if i claim to be a wise man
-4-it sure-ly means that i don't know.
on a stormy sea of moving emotions
tossed about, i'm like a ship on the ocean.
i set a corse for winds of furtune
but i hear -4-the 5-voic6-es say:
carry onmy wayward son
there'll be peace when you done
lay your weary head to rest
dont you cry no more
6   -6 -6  6   -6   -6 6    5  6   5 -4 4
car-ry on; you will al-ways re-mem-ber.____
6   -6 -6  6    -6  7 -7    -6  -7    -6
car-ry on; noth-ing e-quals the splen-dor.
-6  -6   6      -5 -5   -4 6-5-4 -4
Now your life's no long-er emp-  ty;___
-5   -5 6    6  -6    7   -7
sure-ly heav-en waits for you.___
5   6  6  7  -7  6    6 -6 6 -5  
car-ry on my way-ward son;_____
5        6  6     7    -7   6   5 -4
there'll be peace when you__are done.__
5   6    6   7  -7     6  6 -6 6 -5
lay your wea-ry head__ to rest;____
5     -4  5   -4 4 4
don't you cry no__ more
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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