Jackson Browne - For A Dancer

      
Key of D with capo on 3rd fret 
 
 
 # 
 #For A Dancer - JACKSON BROWNE 
 #From the 1974 album: Late For The Sky 
 #Sumbitted by D. Weil 
 # 
 #The song is mainly played on a piano, but heres the guitar chords anyway. Pretty straight 
 #foreward, no tricky stuff and all basic open position chords. Just watch for the Am to 
 #C7 switch. Enjoy! 
 # 
 # EADGBe 
 #C - 032010 
 F - 133211           
 G - 3x0003 or 320033 
 Am - x02210 
 C7 - x32310 
 
 C                    F           
  Keep a fire burning in your eye 
 C                     F        
  Pay attention to the open sky 
 C                    F                   C G 
  You never know what will be coming down   
 
 C                        F            
  I don't remember losing track of you 
 C                               F           
  You were always dancing in and out of view 
 C                        F                C G 
  I must've thought you'd always be around   
 Am                     F                         C 
  Always keeping things real by playing the clown  
            G                   
 Now you're nowhere to be found 
 
 C F C G 
     
 C                               F          
  I don't know what happens when people die 
 C                               F        
  Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try 
 F            C                       F               
  It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear 
              C                   G         
 That I can't sing - I can't help listening 
 C                                F               
  And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round 
 C               F             
  Crying as they ease you down 
 C                         F                      C 
  'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing  
 G                        Am 
  Dancing our sorrow away  
 F                 
  Right on dancing 
 C                  G                 
  No matter what fate chooses to play 
                                     C      
 There's nothing you can do about it anyway 
 
      F                 C                 
 Just do the steps that you've been shown 
    F               C          G 
 By everyone you've ever known  
 Am                     C7              
  Until the dance becomes your very own 
 F              G              
  No matter how close to yours 
 Am                          F 
  Another's steps have grown  
        C                G                     
 In the end there is one dance you'll do alone 
 
 C F C G 
     
 Keep a fire for the human race 
 Let your prayers go drifting into space 
 You never know what will be coming down 
 Perhaps a better world is drawing near 
 And just as easily it could all disappear 
 Along with whatever meaning you might have found 
 
 Am             F                    C      
  Don't let the uncertainty turn you around 
 
 The world keeps turning around and around 
    G                          C 
 Go on and make a joyful sound  
 
   F           C              
 Into a dancer you have grown 
        F             C               G 
 From a seed somebody else has thrown  
 Am                    C7                      F 
  Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own  
 F                     G                    Am 
  And somewhere between the time you arrive  
                     F 
 And the time you go  
             C                     G 
 May lie the reason you were alive  
 
 But you'll never know 
 
 C F C G C G C