Only a Dream Chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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