Biography:
Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.
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Other songs:
- Billy 4
- Black Ribbons
- Blackbirds
- Blessing In Disguise
- Border Town
- Careful How You Go
- Child Of Mine
- Circus Girl
- Dark Angel
- December Child
- Drowning In You
- Everything Falls Away
- Five Minutes
- Germantown
- Ghost
- Guadalupe
- Hello Cruel World
- I Aint Ever Satisfied
- I Dont Know
- I Was Looking For You
- I Wonder As I Wander
- Idlewild
- If Heaven
- If I Had A Gun
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Independence Day
- Jubilee
- Lilies Of The Field
- Love And Texaco
- Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
- Northern Lights
- On A Bus To St Cloud
- On A Bus To Stcloud
- Over Africa
- Paradise Found
- Picasso And Me
- Prairie In The Sky
- Pretty Things
- Revival
- Saint Francis
- Song For A Winters Night
- Souvenirs
- Sunday Morning Up And Down My Street
- The Aviators Song
- The House On Auburn Street
- The Matador
- The Way You Move Me
- This Town
- This Used To Be My Town
- To Say Goodbye
- Tomorrow Morning
- Truckstop Angel
- Waitin On Mary
- Waiting For Amelia
- Waiting For The Light
- Waiting For The Light To Turn Green
- When All You Got Is A Hammer
- When You Are Old
- When You Comin Home
- Wild Horses
- Woman On The Wheel
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Song: Child of mine
Artist: Gretchen Peters
Composer: Gretchen Peters
Album: Halcyon
Tabbed by: DJ
6th Dec 2012
CAPO: 3rd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Bb)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
G = 320033 G/F# = 2x0033 D/A = x00232
Cadd9 = x32033 Em = 022000 D = xx0232
G/B = x20033 Am7 = x02010 C = x32010
G/A = x00033 D/F# = 200232
Live video of Gretchen playing this song at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjvyJalLJzY
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[Intro]
G Cadd9
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [x2]
[Verse 1]
G G/B Cadd9 G Cadd9
I can't fight your dragons any - more,
G G/F# Em Am7 D/F# D/A
They no longer live behind... your closet door,
D/F# Em D/F# G G/B Cadd9
My magic's lost it's power to ease---- your mind,
G D G
But, if I could, I'd slay them, child of mine----!
[Verse 2]
G G/B Cadd9 G Cadd9
What I would - n't give for just one day,
G G/F# Em Am7 D/F# D/A
When holding you was all it took to wipe your tears a - way,
D/F# Em D/F# G G/B Cadd9
Re - member all the days we've left---- be - hind,
G D G
And hold them in your heart, sweet child of mine----!
G G/F# Em D/F# G G/B Cadd9 C
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
G D G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 3]
G G/B Cadd9 G Cadd9
It fills me like a river fills the sea,
G G/F# Em Am7 D/F# D/A
Holds me in it's sway, and sets me free-------,
D/F# Em D/F# G G/B Cadd9
It reaches far be - yond all tide---- and time,
G D G G/A G/B Cadd9
This love I have for you, sweet child of mine,
G D G G/A G/B Cadd9
This love I have for you, sweet child of mine!
| / / / /__/ | / / / / |
G G/A G/B Cadd9 G
| / / / /__/ | / / / / | / ||
Artist: Gretchen Peters
Composer: Gretchen Peters
Album: Halcyon
Tabbed by: DJ
6th Dec 2012
CAPO: 3rd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Bb)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
G = 320033 G/F# = 2x0033 D/A = x00232
Cadd9 = x32033 Em = 022000 D = xx0232
G/B = x20033 Am7 = x02010 C = x32010
G/A = x00033 D/F# = 200232
Live video of Gretchen playing this song at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjvyJalLJzY
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
*****************************************************************************
[Intro]
G Cadd9
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [x2]
[Verse 1]
G G/B Cadd9 G Cadd9
I can't fight your dragons any - more,
G G/F# Em Am7 D/F# D/A
They no longer live behind... your closet door,
D/F# Em D/F# G G/B Cadd9
My magic's lost it's power to ease---- your mind,
G D G
But, if I could, I'd slay them, child of mine----!
[Verse 2]
G G/B Cadd9 G Cadd9
What I would - n't give for just one day,
G G/F# Em Am7 D/F# D/A
When holding you was all it took to wipe your tears a - way,
D/F# Em D/F# G G/B Cadd9
Re - member all the days we've left---- be - hind,
G D G
And hold them in your heart, sweet child of mine----!
G G/F# Em D/F# G G/B Cadd9 C
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
G D G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 3]
G G/B Cadd9 G Cadd9
It fills me like a river fills the sea,
G G/F# Em Am7 D/F# D/A
Holds me in it's sway, and sets me free-------,
D/F# Em D/F# G G/B Cadd9
It reaches far be - yond all tide---- and time,
G D G G/A G/B Cadd9
This love I have for you, sweet child of mine,
G D G G/A G/B Cadd9
This love I have for you, sweet child of mine!
| / / / /__/ | / / / / |
G G/A G/B Cadd9 G
| / / / /__/ | / / / / | / ||
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