How I Spent My Fall Vacation Chords by Bruce Cockburn

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[E] Sun went [C#m] down, looking like the [A] eye of God _ _
[E] Behind [C#m] icy mist, stark [A] bare trees _ _
Inside the dim, empty [C#m] cinema, two guys in leather jackets
Glanced at each other and [F#m] shivered _ _ _ _ _
[E] They never built these [C#m] places with [A] winter in mind _
[E] Out the window, down the gray road, [A] you can see old Wall Monastery
_ [E] Now become [C#m] a [A] barracks for the paramilitary [F#m] police
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_ [E] _ Shuddering, [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ [E] the cold [F#m] breeze, fading into the [E] _ morning [F#m] _ sun
I [E] saw an old lady's face [C#m] once on a [A] Japanese train _
[E] Half lit, rich [C#m] with soft [A] luminosity _ _
[E] She was [C#m] dozing, straight up, bright [A] head bobbing, almost [F#m] imperceptibly
Her _ _ _ _
_ [E] wheels were [C#m] playing fast in nine [A]-eight time _
_ [E] Her [C#m] husband's friendly face [A] suddenly folded up in a sneeze
_ [E] Across [C#m] the straight, a volcano
[A] _ Blew a white smoke [F#m] flag of surrender
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[E] In a Roman street, [C#m] on a [A] full moon night _
[E] I was sick and [C#] there was a young cop in a [A] circle of yellow light
So [E] he drew near, [C#m] he snapped the safety off his [A] machine pistol
And slid a trembling [F#m] finger to the trigger _ _ _ _ _
[E] I wanted to say [C#m] something calming but couldn't [A] catch his eye _
_ [E] He didn't [C#] want contact, he was [A] trained at sea movement _
_ [E] But don't shoot [C#] me, man, I'm a graceful [A] flow dancer
I'm just a dream, dear, not [F#m] real at all
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[E] I wonder if I'll [C#m] end up like Bernie in [A] his dream
A _ [E] displaced person [C#m] in some foreign border [A] town _ _
[E] Waiting for a train [C#m] part, hope part, myth [A] while the station changes [F#m] hands _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] I kept sitting at home, [C#m] growing tenser with the [A] times _
_ [E] Like that guy [C#m] in the seventh seal, watching [A] the newly dead dance across the hills
[E] Or wearing [C#] this leather jacket, shivering [A] with a friend
While the eye of God blazes [F#m] at us like the sun
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_ [E] _ _ [C#m] _ [F#m] _ I'm in the middle of a desert [E] island
I'm in the middle of [F#m] a desert island
Desert island, desert island
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