8th April 2021
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Music & Films
If I Were A Carpenter film+TAB
a dulcimer arrangement of Tim Hardin’s lovely country music song If I Were A Carpenter, beautifully sung by Rebecca Hallworth and performed fingerstyle (fingerpicking) on my Doug Berch mountain dulcimer in Ionian tuning EBB (DAA but in key of E)
If I Were A Carpenter has been recorded by many famous artists, including Johnny Cash, The Four Tops and Robert Plant – Tim Hardin performed this song himself at the Woodstock festival in 1969
FREE TAB
click on this link: If I Were A Carpenter_song_v2 to display the notation for this piece as a web-friendly PDF document
and here are the chord shapes and the picking pattern: If I Were A Carpenter_chords_v1