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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From Gretchen's 2004 Halcyon album
Standard tuning EADGBE
NB Gretchen's recording is a whole tone DOWN from this i.e. DGCFAD
So - while the fingering for C is x32010, it is in fact Bb, G/B is F/A etc.
VERSE 1
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C G/B Am Am/G
If heaven was an hour it would be twilight
F C G
The fireflies start dancing on the lawn
C G/B Am Am/G
supper's on the stove and Mama's laughing
F C G
And everybody's working day is done
C G/B Am Am/G
If heaven was a town it would be my town
F G C G
On a summer day in nineteen sixty-five
C G/B Am Am/G
Everything I wanted was out there waiting
F G C G/B
Everyone I loved was still alive
CHORUS 1
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Am G F C G/B
Don't cry a tear for me now baby
Am G F G
Comes a time we all must say goodbye
C G/B Am F
And if that's what heaven's made of
C G C
You know I ain't af-raid to die
VERSE 2
=======
C G/B Am Am/G
If heaven was a pie it would be cherry
F C G
Cool and sweet and heavy on your tongue
C G/B Am Am/G
And just one bite would satisfy your hunger
F G
And there'd always be enough for everyone
C G Am Am/G
If heaven was a train it'd be a fast one
F C G
To take this weary traveller round the bend
C G/B Am Am/G
And if heaven was a tear it'd be my last one
F G C G/B
And you'd be in my arms again
CHORUS 2
=======
Am G F C G/B
So don't cry a tear for me now baby
Am G F G
Comes a time we all must say goodbye
C G/B Am F
And if that's what heaven's made of
C C/G C
You know I ain't af-raid to die
C G Am
If that's what heaven's made of
C G C
I ain't afraid to die
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I hope I've done it justice!
Kevin O'Brien
Watford
England
August 2012
[email protected]
Standard tuning EADGBE
NB Gretchen's recording is a whole tone DOWN from this i.e. DGCFAD
So - while the fingering for C is x32010, it is in fact Bb, G/B is F/A etc.
VERSE 1
=======
C G/B Am Am/G
If heaven was an hour it would be twilight
F C G
The fireflies start dancing on the lawn
C G/B Am Am/G
supper's on the stove and Mama's laughing
F C G
And everybody's working day is done
C G/B Am Am/G
If heaven was a town it would be my town
F G C G
On a summer day in nineteen sixty-five
C G/B Am Am/G
Everything I wanted was out there waiting
F G C G/B
Everyone I loved was still alive
CHORUS 1
========
Am G F C G/B
Don't cry a tear for me now baby
Am G F G
Comes a time we all must say goodbye
C G/B Am F
And if that's what heaven's made of
C G C
You know I ain't af-raid to die
VERSE 2
=======
C G/B Am Am/G
If heaven was a pie it would be cherry
F C G
Cool and sweet and heavy on your tongue
C G/B Am Am/G
And just one bite would satisfy your hunger
F G
And there'd always be enough for everyone
C G Am Am/G
If heaven was a train it'd be a fast one
F C G
To take this weary traveller round the bend
C G/B Am Am/G
And if heaven was a tear it'd be my last one
F G C G/B
And you'd be in my arms again
CHORUS 2
=======
Am G F C G/B
So don't cry a tear for me now baby
Am G F G
Comes a time we all must say goodbye
C G/B Am F
And if that's what heaven's made of
C C/G C
You know I ain't af-raid to die
C G Am
If that's what heaven's made of
C G C
I ain't afraid to die
-----------------------------------------
I hope I've done it justice!
Kevin O'Brien
Watford
England
August 2012
[email protected]
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