Key: F
Introduction:
E B7 E B7
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue,
E B7 E B7
an everlasting vision of the everchanging view,
F#m7 B A B
a wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold,
A7M G#m7 F#m B7
a tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.
E7M B9 E7M B9
Once amid the soft silver sadness in the sky
E B9 E B7
there came a man of fortune, a drifter passing by
F#m7 B A B
he wore a torn and tattered cloth around his leathered hide
A7M G#m7 F#m B7 F#m7 B7
and a coat of many colors, yellow-green on either side.
G D7 G7M D7
He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
G D7 G7M D7
just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
B Gb7 Abm7 B
once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
E7M Gb
and his hand came down - empty.
E B7 E B7
Soon within my tapestry along the rutted road
E B7 E B7
he sat down on a river rock and turned into a toad,
F#m7 B A B
it seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell,
A7M G#m7 F#m B7
and I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well.
F C7 F C7
As I watched in sorrow, there suddenly appeared
F C7 F C7
a figure gray and ghostly beneath a flowing beard
Gm7 C Bb C
in times of deepest darkness, I've seen him dressed in black
Bb7M Am7 Gm C7
now my tapestry's unravelling he's come to take me back,
Gm7 D9 Dm7(4)
he's come to take me back.