Dancer To The Drum

From:  * (Stephen Mabry)6-18-02

"Dancer to the drum" by Beth Nielson
 Chapman

From: "You hold the key" Album

Intro: G   G

       G
Fast asleep in the dawn of ages
     C              G
The soul of every child
      D                    Em
Has waited to be born a stranger
                G                  
Underneath the drum of his mothers 
  D
heart
        G
Lying deep in a dream of darkness
       C              G
Where fear has never gone
       D                  Em
Each spark of a life is started
           G            D       C
Blind and pure to the world we come
           G            D       G
Blind and pure to the world we come
Refrain        D            G
Each of us a dancer to the drum
               D            C   
Each of us a dancer to the drum
riff 1

 G         D        G
Blind and pure we come
        G
One is born into a life of hunger
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               C                   
One will be a king or a rich man's 
 G
son
          D                    Em
One will kill out of greed or anger
                   G               
One will give his life for another 
 D
one
            G
There are lies  in the smiles of 
innocence
            C                   
There are blooms in the walls of 
   G
stone
        D
And we will seek ourselves
        C          G              
In the eyes of everyone .....we 
          Em
have ever known
   G
Everyone we have ever known
          D          C            
And the heart, the heart will ever
         G
 be a witness
       Em      C                  
And precious time, no treasure is 
  G
worth
          D          C            
And the child, the child will 
         Em
carry our existence
  C               G            D 
     Through the days that we 
       G
have on earth

solo: dulcimer, G      C   D   C   G
 D C   G D G
               D            G
Each of us a dancer to the drum
               D            C
Each of us a dancer to the drum
  G         D       G
Blind and pure we come
       G (Hold)
Fast asleep in the dawn of ages
      C
The soul of every child
       D                   C     
Has waited to be born a stranger
riff 2

         D              G    G    G 
   (G) 1 strum
Born a dancer, to the drum

Notes: Play riff 1 & 2 over chords
       h=harmonic ()=drone s=slide 
v=vibrato
       C can be played as C9, G as 
GaddD
Riff 1

E---------------------------------
B--------3--3------------12H------
G--------0---------------12H------
D-----2---------------------------
A--3------------------------------
E---------------------------------

Riff 2

E---14---12---10---(14)----10-----
B---------------------------------
G------------------------------12-
D---------------------------------
A---------------------------------
E---------------------------------

Solo

E---------------------------------
B-8v--10s12v--10s12v--10s12v--10v-
G---------------------------------
D---------------------------------
A---------------------------------
E---------------------------------

E|------------------| 
B|-8--8h10v--8v-----| 
G|--------------(0)-| 
D|------------------| 
A|------------------| 
E|------------------| 


E--------------------------------
B-8h10--8h10--10v--10h12--10h12--
G--------------------------------
D--------------------------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------

E|-------------------| 
B|10--12v--10v--8v---| 
G|-------------------| 
D|-------------------| 
A|-------------------| 
E|-------------------| 


E---------------------------------
B-8h10s12--12v--10v--8v-----------
G---------------------------------
D---------------------------------
A---------------------------------
E---------------------------------

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