Chords for Ron Hynes - Sonnys Dream

_ _ _ Thank you. _ _ _
[B] Anybody here from Newfoundland at [Gm] all?
A few [C] people down there, yeah?
[G] Well, wouldn't mind if you help me out with this next tune here now.
Anybody here from New Brunswick, _ [A#] you can jump in as well.
[C] _ I wrote this song in 1976.
It's funny to be singing it here now, 15, 16 years later.
[Em] _
_ [N] I'm not singing it.
[C] I still like to sing it, and I hope you do too.
So try to help me out a little bit, will you? _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ On a wild goose lace
You can take off your sneakers
[F] To [C] give up the race
[G] You can lay down your head
By a sweet river bed
But Sonny [C]
always remembers
[F] What it was his [Am] mama said
[G] _
_ _ _ [C] Sonny carries the load
Though he's barely a man
There ain't a lot to do
So he does what he can
[G] And he watches the sea
From a room by the stairs
And the [C] waves keep on rollin'
They've done that for [G] years and years
Help us out
Oh, Sonny, don't go away
I am here all alone
And your daddy's a sailor
[F] And the river never [C] comes home
[G] And the nights get so long
And the silence goes on
[F] And I'm feeling so tired
I'm not all [C] that strong
[Em] _ _
_ [B] And it's a hundred [A] miles to town
And [B] Sonny's never [D] been there
And he goes to the highway
[G] Stands there and stares
[A] And a mail comes a-pourin'
And a mailman is old
[G] But he still dreams his dreams
Full of silver [D] and [A] gold _ _
_ [D] Sonny's dreams can't be real
[A] They're just stories he's read
They're just stars in [D] his eyes
They're [G] just dreams in his [A] head
And he's hungry inside
For the wide world outside
[G] And I know I can't hold him
Though I [D] tried and I [B] tried and I tried _
[D] Oh, Sonny, don't go away
[Bm] I am here all alone
[D] And your daddy's a [G] sailor
And the [D] river never comes home
And the [E] nights get so long
And the silence goes on
[G] And I'm feeling so tired
I'm not [D] all that strong
[A] _ _ _
Oh, [D] Sonny, don't go away
[A] I am here all alone
And your [F#m] daddy's a [G] sailor
And [C#m] the river never comes [A] home
And the nights get so long
And the silence goes on
[G] And I'm feeling so tired
[F#m] I'm not all that [A] strong
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