Only a Dream Chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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