You’ve Been a Friend to Me
Carter Family
Capo 3
Intro: / D - - - / A7 - - - / D - - - / - - - - /
D (2) G (2)
My bark of life was drifting down
D (2) A7 (2)
the troubled sea of time
D (2) G (2)
Since first I saw your smiling face and
D A7 D D7
youth was in its prime
Chorus:
G (2) D (2)
I'll ne’er forget where’er I roam
D (2) A7 (2)
wherever you may be
D (2) G (2)
If ever I have had a friend
D A7 D (2)
you've been that friend to me
Instrumental Verse
D (2) G (2)
Misfortune used me as her child and
D (2) A7 (2)
loved me fondly too
D (2) G (2)
I would have had a broken heart
D A7 D D7
had it not been for you
Chorus
Instrumental Verse
D (2) G (2)
I now look back upon the past
D (2) A7 (2)
across life's troubled sea
D (2) G (2)
And smile to think through all I've seen
D A7 D D7
you've been a friend to me
Chorus, end on 3rd beat of last measure