Chords for John Denver - The Gift You Are - 1991

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_ _ _ _ _ How about a hand for our stage crew? _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A] They've done. _ _ _
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_ So it starts to feel like _ _ _ everybody's getting here from [Em] our dinner break.
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_ _ One [A] last song before we begin our celebration of the WinStar Award winners
and _ of our dear grandfather, Bucky Fuller.
And this perhaps _ _ _ dedicated to each of them _ _ _ _
_ _ _ and not _ less than that to each of you, _ to each of us.
This [G] is a song that I wrote for Jesse Bell.
_ _ And every time [Em] I sing it, somehow because that was the incident around the birth of this song,
_ inevitably my daughter Anna Kate _ is present _ and says,
Dad, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ what about me and Zach? _ _ _ _ _ _
So it's absolutely for _ [C] _ _
each [G] of them,
but truly for each of you.
I say in my _ _ _ concerts when I introduce this song that [Am] each one of us is a [A] gift. _ _ _ _
_ We are certainly a gift to our parents, _ although it doesn't always look like that.
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_ _ But we're a gift to each other.
We're a gift to the people that we love and who [D] love us,
_ and a gift to life, [D] in my opinion.
Each one of us has that gift, that miracle within us.
As Robert [G] Koyasaki was saying today and others. _
So this is the gift you all are. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Imagine a month of Sundays, _ _ _ each one a cloudy _ _ day.
_ _ Imagine the moment the sun _ came shining [C] through. _
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Imagine that ray of _ sunshine _ [G] as you. _ _ _
_ _ _ Remember your darkest hour _ _ with the dawn still far _ _ away. _
_ Remember the way that you _ [D]
long for [C] morning's light. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Think of yourself as a candle _ [G] in the night. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ Dream. _ _ _
_ [D] No, no, no, no.
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What is it?
_ _ _ [G] Dream of a bright.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
[Bm] That's the last verse.
[G] It's make believe this is the first day. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I hate it when that happens. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Make believe this is the first day. _
_ Everything all brand _ new.
_ _ Make believe that the sun is your own [C] lucky _ star. _ _ _ _ _
Then understand the _ kind of gift you [E] _ _ _ [G]
are.
_ _ The gift [C] you are _ like [Am] the very [Dm] first [G] breath of spring. _ _ _ _
The gift you [C] _ are _ [Am] all the joy [D] that love [G]
can bring. _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ All _ [Am] _
of our [Bm] dreams come true.
_ [Em] _ _ The gift [C] you are.
[G] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ You _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] are [D] the promise [G] of all the ages.
[Am] You are the [D] _ [G] prodigal _ son. _
_ [B] You [Bm] are the [C] vision of prophets [Am] and sages.
You are [D] the only [G] one. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Dream of a bright tomorrow. _ _ _ _
Know that your dream will come _ true.
_ _ Carry the dream in a sparkling crystal [C] jar. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And then you will know the _ kind of gift [G] you [E] _ _ [G] are.
_ The gift [C] you are _ _ [Am] the very [D] first [G] breath of spring.
_ _ _ _ The gift [C] you _ are all [Am] the joy [D] that [G] love can _ bring.
_ _ The gift you [C]
are.
_ _ _ [Am] All of our [B] dreams come true.
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The gift [C] you are.
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_ [Am] _ [D] The gift [G] of you.
_ _ _ _ The gift [C] you _ are _ [Am] like the very _ first [G] breath of _ _ _ _ springtime.
The gift [C] you are _ [Am] all the joy [D] that _ [G] love can _ bring. _
The gift [C] you _ are. _
_ [Am] All of our dreams [Bm] come true.
[Em] Yes they do.
The gift you [C] are.
[G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[D] The gift [G] of you. _ _
_ _ _ The gift [C] you are.
_ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] The gift [G] of you. _ _ _ _
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