Chords for Cheryl Wheeler - It's Raining in Portland

_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ I [E] was in Portland [E] _ a couple of weeks ago, I guess,
or something like that.
[C] And _ [C#] it could have been three years.
I'm not quite [D#] sure.
I think it was sometime in [F#m] the last four weeks.
[B] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] Well, it was right, yeah, it was in the beginning of April.
Yes.
And [G] _ when I got to Portland, I woke up.
[F#] I flew in the next morning and woke up.
And I felt this great relief.
And it made me realize that I had [N] been kind of depressed.
And _ because it was right around the time
that all that horrible stuff happened to Japan and everything.
And it was just so sad, so sad in so many ways.
And then all this stuff in the Middle East,
and the ridiculous political stuff around [C] here,
I mean, in the [A] US.
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [B] So I'm just driving [F#m] from the Whole Foods in Portland
back to my hotel room.
_ Starting to write this song.
_ _ [E] _ _ _
It's raining in Portland, [F#m] but I'm still glad to be here.
I [A] love the Northwest, and I don't find [E] it gray.
_ Feels [A] like there's a lot of [F#m] old hippies like me.
[A] _ Smithers Fine is what I've got [E] to say.
_ [C#m] The world is so crazy [A] and angry and greedy. _
[F#m] _ _ _ Travesty holds [E] not afraid.
_ _ I can't explain it.
[F#m] I can just say that [A] it felt great to wake up [E] in Portland. _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] Life in the [A] full plane [F#m] is hardly a fad.
[A] It's more like a quick path with holiday [E] hits.
_ Once I [A] was 14 [F#m] and dreaming that someday [A] I'd
travel _ among the sea where [E] it ends.
_ _ [C#m] 14 could never cease.
[D] It's deep and clear that [F#m] _ 60 sees 14 not fading [E] away.
_ _ _ No [E] more games to make up.
[F#m] No homes to take up.
[A] It felt great to wake up in Portland [A] today.
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ April _ [E] gray and white. _ _ _
Cold that can't contain.
[F#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] Something came to [E] _ life.
_ _ I understand.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Hotels and [A] highways [F#m] can blur in the rearview
[A] to where you are going.
Your calling is where you [E] have been.
_ [B] _ Somehow in Portland [F#m] there's something to steer to.
[D] Something to lift you and usher [E] you near.
_ _ _ [C#m] _ Bridges and pine trees.
Gray [A] sky [A] and water.
_ [F#m] Hushed all the bother.
_ Washed it away.
[E] _
_ _ _ _ _ Something got bandaged.
_ [F#m] Stirred up and molded. _
[A] _ Kindly tended in Portland. _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] Something got bandaged.
[F#m] _ Stirred up and molded. _
[A] _ _ Kindly tended [E] in Portland.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _