Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
         (drums count in 1&  &3 4)
Don't you cry no more


Riff 1: Electric 2 / bass riff   (6 measures)
| 1 & 2 & 3 4 & 1 & 2 3 & triplet | 1 & 2 3 & |  (x2)
         
        Keys [

        
organ]/electri

          
c 1 single not

 
es    


Break down 1: (half time, octaves)  (6 measures)
| 1 & 2 3 4 & | 1 2 triplet triplet | (x3)
                       


Riff 1 with SOLO: Electric 2 / bass riff   (6 measures)
     Keys organ single notes
     Electric 1 solo    


Break down 2: (half time, octaves 1 guitar very high) (4 measures)
| 1 & 2 3 4 & | 1 2 triplet triplet | (x2)
                       


Tag: (half time) (3 measures)
All notes are different (you will have to pick them out)
Slow triplet x2   F (sustain for 2 measures)



[Verse 1] (soft, only keys [piano] arpeggiated)
           
Once I rose ab

             
ove the noise 

    
and confusion
           
Just to get a 

             
glimpse beyond

      
 this illusion
           
I was soaring 

                
ever higher
           
But I flew too

      ( 
 high
           
Though my eyes

             
 could see I s

           
till was a bli

nd man
           
Though my mind

             
 could think I

           
 still was a m

ad man
           
I hear the voi

             
ces when I'm d

           
reaming
           
I can hear the

  
m say


[Chorus 1:]
          
Carry on my wa

           
yward son,  Th

             
ere'll be peac

       
e when you are

 done
           
Lay your weary

           
 head to rest,

 (  
   don't you c

                  
ry no more
 

[Verse 2] (soft, keys [piano] /bass/drums only)
           
Masquerading a

             
s a man with a

 
 reason
           
My charade is 

             
the event of t

   
he season
           
And if I claim

            
 to be a wise 

         
man
           
It surely mean

              
s that I don't

 
 know
           
On a stormy se

           
a of moving em

otion
           
Tossed about I

             
'm like a ship

        
 on the ocean
           
I set a course

              
 for winds of 

          
fortune
           
But I hear the

        
 voices say


[Chorus 2]
          
Carry on my wa

           
yward son,  Th

             
ere'll be peac

       
e when you are

 done
Am       C     G       F   F (hit and off)      1 2 3 4*Drum hit
Lay your weary head to rest,   don't you cry no more


[Solo 1] (medium-soft, bass/drums/electrics only)    (8 measures)
| 1 & 2 3 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & | 1 & 2 3 4 & 1 & 2 & | x2
                                        

[Solo 2] (1st time, keys [organ] solo, 2nd time, electric solo)
| 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 e  | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | x2
                                               


[Riff 1]


[Bridge] (medium)
  (
Carry on 1  2 

& 3 & 

4 &
            
You will alway

    
s remember
  (
Carry on 1  2 

  & 3 &amp

; 4 &
            
Nothing  equal

          
s the splendor
           
Now your life'

            
s no longer em

      
pty
           
Surely Heaven 

          
waits for you


[Ending Chorus] (medium)
          
Carry on my wa

           
yward son,  Th

             
ere'll be peac

       
e when you are

 done
           
Lay your weary

           
 head to rest,

 (  
   don't you c

                   
ry no more