Bob Seger

Songwriter: Tim Hardin

Producer: Punch Andrews

[Verse 1]
If I was a carpenter
Mmm. and you were a lady
Would you marry me anyway?
Would you have my baby?

[Verse 2]
If I worked my hands in wood
I wonder would you still love me?
I say yes, I would
I'll put you above me
That's what I want you to say

[Bridge]
And would you save my love from loneliness?
Would you save my love from sorrow?
Well if you would Id give you my onlyness
Girl and all of my tomorrows
All of my tomorrows
Yeah
(Come on!)

[Organ Solo]

[Verse 3]
If a tinker were my trade
Would you still find me?
Carrying the pots and the pans that I made
Walking along the highway
That long lonely highway

[Outro]
If I was a carpenter
And you were a lady
And I was just a carpenter
Instead of a rock and roll star
Just a carpenter
A carpenter
A carpenter

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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