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