{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1722530,"song":"Crystal Creek","artist":"Dar Williams","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11365818-crystal-creek-chords-by-dar-williams/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1722530?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"\r\n\r\nDar Williams - Crystal Creek\r\n\r\n\r\nCAPO: 4th Fret\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nINTRO: [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nYou, so fleet and youthful, must have split a thousand apples[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]                                    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nOh, I watched you as you steadied first your heart then your breath[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nVenturing out, you scanned a thousand blades of grass[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd when you drew your bowstring, it was a swift and cordial death[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAs you stood in the wilderness[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nDid you feel the silence in the stillness?[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat was me, with you in the forest[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]     \r\nFor you knew the balances, the balances before us[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nI was guarding Crystal, Crystal Creek[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nOh, a tree, it's a record, a home of memories[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd every bird springs from an old master's canvas, full in flight[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the pond I go to, sparkles in a vast estuary[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]                             [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd those men saw nothing, staring drunken through their sites[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe one who spied me out as goods to plunder[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Dm[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI had to show the world that he was not a true hunter[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]       \r\nThat was me, when he saw me naked[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]     \r\nHe was interrupting something sacred[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nI was guarding Crystal, Crystal Creek[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the newsmen circled, leaving trails of cigarette butts[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nMachine-like up the hill to Crystal Creek[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\n“James,” she said, “who would do this thing I've seen today.[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]                                        [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nI cannot hold my mic, my hands are shaking, knees are weak.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\n“They found a man and he was wrapped in a deerskin,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nRiddled through with boxes of his friends' ammunition.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]       \r\nTurn the camera off,” she said.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]       \r\nThat was me, oh, my noble animals[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]Em[/ch]     \r\nYou must act with reverence, with reverence, not like cannibals[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI was guarding Crystal, Crystal Creek[/tab]","plain_text":"Dar Williams - Crystal Creek\n\n\nCAPO: 4th Fret\n\n\n\nINTRO: C","chords":["C","F","Am","Dm","Em","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}