Only A Dream Chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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_ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] I can recall [Db]
the sound [Ab] of the [G] wind
[Db] As it blew [Ab] through the [Db] trees and the [Eb] trees would bend
[Ab] _ _ And I [Cm] can recall [Bbm] the smell [Ab] of the rain
[Bbm] On a [Ab] hot summer night _ [Db] [Eb] coming through the screen
_ [Ebm] I'd _ [Db]
crawl in your bed when the [Ab] lightning [Db] _ _
[Ab] flashed
And I'd [Db] still be [Eb] there when the storm had _ passed
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_ [Cm] Dead to the world [Db] till the [Eb]
[Ab] morning _ [G] cast
[Db] _ This [Eb] light all [G] around [Ab] your room _ _
_ _ We lived on a street [Db] where the tall elm [Ab] shade
_ [Fm] _ [Db]
Was as [Ab] green as the [Db] grass and as [Eb] cool as a blade
[Ab] That you [Eb] held in your [Ab] teeth [Db] as we lay on [Ab] our backs
_ _ Staring up at the blue _ [Db]
and the [Eb] blue stared [Ebm] back _
I [Db] used to believe [Gb] we were [Ab] just [Db] like those trees
_ [Fm] _ We'd grow [Db] just as tall [Eb] and as [F] proud as [G] we _ [Eb]
[Ab] pleased
With our feet [Eb] on the ground [Db] and our arms in the [Ab] _ [Eb] breeze
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[Eb] Under a sheltering [Ab] _ sky
_ [Eb] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ Twirl [Db] me about and [Ab] twirl [Db] me around
_ [Fm] _ Let [Db] me grow dizzy [Eb]
and [Ab] fall to [Eb] the ground
[Ab] And _ [Eb] when I look up [Db] at you [Ab] looking _ down
[Db] _ _ Say [Eb] it was only [Ab] a [Db] dream
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_ _ A big truck was parked in the [Db] drive [Ab] one day
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They wrapped [Ab] us in paper [Db] _ [Fm] and [Eb] moved [G] us [Ab] away
Your room [Eb] was no [Bbm] longer [Db] next door [Ab] to mine
[Db] _ And this kid [Ab] sister thing [Db] was old [Eb] by that time
[Ebm] _ But oh [Bbm] how our dreams [Ab] went bump in [Db] the night
[Fm] _ And the [Db] voices downstairs [Eb] getting [Fm] [Eb] into a fight _
[Ab] _ And the [Eb] next day a [Ab] silence you could cut with a knife
_ And [Eb] feel like a blade [Ab] at your throat
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ Twirl [Db] me about [Ab] and twirl [Db] me _ around
[Fm] _ Let me [Db] grow dizzy [Eb] and fall to the [Bbm] ground
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And [Eb] when I look up [Db] at you [C] looking down
[Ab] _ _ [Bbm] _ _
[Eb] Say it was _ [Fm] only a _ _ [Db]
dream
_ _ [Eb] _ The [Ab] _ _
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[Fm] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
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[Ab] _ _ day [Eb] you left home [Db] you got an early [Ab] start _ _
I watched your car [Dbm] back out [Ab] in the dark
_ _ I opened the [Eb] door [Ab] to your room down the hall
_ I turned on the lights [Db] _ and all [Eb] that I saw
[Ebm] _ _ Was a [Db] bed and a desk [Ab] and a couple [Db] of tents _
[Fm] _ No sign [Db] of someone [Eb] who [Fm] expects to be [G] _ bad
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It must have [Eb] been one hell of [Ab] a suitcase _ you packed
[Db] _ _ [Ab]
Twirl [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
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me about _ and twirl me _ around
[Fm] _ Let [Ab] me grow [Db] dizzy [Eb] and [Ab] fall [Eb] to the ground
[Ab] And when [Eb] I look up [Db]
[Ab] at you _ _ looking down _ _
_ _ [Eb] Say it was _ [Fm] only a dream
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