Chords for Cloud Factory-June Tabor

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_ _ _ _ My father [D]
worked in the cloud [E] factory
[Am] He'd come [G] home [C] wreathed in dreams [D] each day _ _
_ My mother [G] took his [Em] cloudy clothes
[D] To wash [G] the smell of dreams away
_ _ [C] She'd scold and say, you [G] and your dreams
[Am] They're just for [G] kids, [C] or fools [D] like you
But [C] father, he'd just wink [G] his eye
_ [D] Smile [Em] and say, [D] are you sure [G] that's true? _ _ _
_ _ My [D] mother thought him [G] fanciful
_ [A] She [G] used to [C] chide him [D] all the while
But me, [G] _
[D] I thought him [G] wonderful
[D] I'd [G] do anything [D] just to see [G] him smile _
_ [C] I used to hear him [G]
singing low
_ [Am] His [G] words are with [C] me to [D] this day
[C] You have to hold on to [G] your dreams
Or [D] else [Em] they [Dm] simply slip _ [G]
away
_ _ _ My [C] _
father taught me [G] how to sing
[Am] He sang [G] that [Cm] dreams are _ [D] everything _
[C] _ Can't [G] be bought [Cm] and can't [G] be sold
_ _ [D] More than [C] silver, _
[G] more than gold _ _
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[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ [Em] _ [C] _ [D] _
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Last time I saw [D] him [G] ill and dying
_ Was the only time [Cm] I saw him [D] cry
_ [G] Too late for dreams [Bm] to come [Em] true now
[F#m] As he [G] watched his [D] last cloud [G] rolling by
_ _ _ [C] Back home she opened [G] windows wide
[Am] And [G] out the dreams [C] flew strand [G] by strand
[C] Till all but one had flown [G]
away
I caught [D] and [E] [D] kept it [G] in my _ hand _ _
_ My mother _ doesn't do much lately
_ [Am] No [G] more [C] clouds to [D] clear away
_ _ [G] And since they closed the factory down
_ [Bm]
No [Em] dreams [G] seem to drift this way
_ _ [C] I caught her sitting [G] alone and still
_ [Am] First [G] I thought [Cm] her fast [G] asleep
_ [C] But father's coat was in [G] her lap, _
_ [D] [Em] her feet
[G] The _ dreams lay deep
_ _ She [C] said he taught me how [G] to sing
[Am] To sing [G] that dreams [C] are _ [G] everything
_ [C] _ Can't be bought and can't [G] be sold
_ [C] More than [G]
silver, more _ than gold _
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Sometimes I walk by the disused factory
_ _ [C] [G] Gaze into [C] the empty [G] sky
_ _ _ And if I let the fancy lead me
A [C] dream or two [G] comes drifting by _ _
_ [C] I'll teach my children [G] how to sing
[Am] To [G] sing that [C] dreams are [G] everything
_ _ [C] _ Can't be bought and [Bm] can't be sold
[G] More [C] than [G] silver, more _ than gold
_ _ _ [C] My father taught me how [G] to sing
_ [Am] To [G] sing that [C] dreams are [D] everything
_ [C] _
Can't be bought and [G] can't be sold
_ _ [C] More than silver, _
[G] _ more _ than gold _ _
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