From: rickl1@ix.netcom.com (Rick)
Subject: CRD:For A Dancer            Linda Ronstadt/Emmylou Harris     Chords/Lyrics
Date: 25 Aug 1999 00:00:00 GMT




Emmylou Harris       For A Dancer   written by Jackson Browne
Linda Ronstadt

Emmylou Harris          harmony/acoustic guitar
Linda Ronstadt          lead vocal
Bernie Leadon           guitar/bass
Greg Leisz              guitar
Ethan Johns             drums/acoustic guitar
Neil Young              harmonica/harmony

F  Bb   F  Bb

F                   Bb
Keep a fire burning in your eye
F                     Bb
Pay attention to the open sky
F                      Bb             F    C
You'll never know what will be coming down
F                       Bb
I don't remember losing track of you
F                              Bb
You were always dancing in and out of view
F                         Bb        F          C
I must have thought you'd always be around
Dm                    Bb                  F
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
           C             F        Bb
Now you're nowhere to be found
F                              Bb
I don't know what happens when people die
F                         Bb
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
            F                       Bb
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
             F
That I can't sing
             C
I can't help listening
F                                Bb
And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
F              Bb
Crying as they ease you down
F                        Bb             F
Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing
C                  Dm
Dancing our sorrow away
          Bb
Right on dancing
F                   C
No matter what fate chooses to play
F    Bb                F
Just do the steps that you've been shown
   Bb              F             C
By everyone you've ever known
Dm              F7                Bb
Until the dance becomes your very own
               C
No matter how close to yours
Dm                   Bb
Another's steps have grown
       F                C               F    Bb    F    Bb
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone

SOLO

F                   Bb
Keep a fire for the human race
F                            Bb
Let your prayers go drifting into space
F                   Bb             F     C
You never know what will be coming down
F                         Bb
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
F                           Bb
And just as easily it could all disappear
F                   Bb                    F     C
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Dm             Bb                  F
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
                        C
The world keeps turning around and around
                        F
Go on and make a joyful sound
Bb            F
Into a dancer you have grown
       Bb            F                C
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Dm              F7                       Bb
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
               C                   Dm
And somewhere between the time you arrive
                 Bb
And the time you go
          F                C
May lie a reason you were alive
                 F
But you'll never know



From "Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions"
Asylum Records 1999
Swallow Turn Music