Faces Of America chords by Dan Fogelberg

Chords with lyrics

Dan Fogelberg - Faces Of America


INTRO: G+G C majorC (4x) G+G

         C majorC G+G
There was a time
        C majorC G+G
A augmentedA simpler time
                   D MajorD   C-D-G
When a man could be sure of where he stood
              C majorC G+G
I used to work at the yard
            C majorC G+G
Working honest and hard
                   D MajorD   C-D-G
The hours were long, but the pay was good

              C majorC G+G
I had a family and friends
        C majorC G+G
So many friends
               D MajorD   C-D-G
We'd drive to the lake on holidays
              C majorC G+G
Back then it wasn't so dear
            C majorC G+G
For a sandwich or beer
                    D MajorD   C majorC
At night I still dream I can see their faces


CHORUS:
             G+G     C majorC
Certain things that you depend upon
              G+G   C majorC
They were places that you'd known
         G+G
And the faces of America
  D MajorD         E minorEm
Oh oh, where do they go
        G+G  C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
Where did they go


           C majorC G+G
I was born on a farm
          C majorC G+G
A augmentedA mid-western farm
               D MajorD   C-D-G
I rode on the tractor with my dad
               C majorC G+G
And though we never had much
           C majorC G+G
It was always enough
                 D MajorD   C-D-G
And we made the best with what we had

                  C majorC G+G
But then came four years of drought
             C majorC G+G
And the bottom dropped out
                D MajorD   C-D-G
My father was broken, like the rest
               C majorC G+G
And I can still see his hands
            C majorC G+G
Signing over his lands
                       D MajorD       C majorC
And the bankers grow fat on the flesh of the dispossessed


CHORUS:
             G+G     C majorC
Certain things that you depend upon
            G+G  C majorC
There are places I can go
           G+G
I sift the ashes of America
    D MajorD        E minorEm
For someplace I used to know (someplace I used to know)
  D MajorD        C majorC
Someplace I used to know (someplace I used to know)
          G+G
Someplace I used to know


INSTRUMENTAL: C majorC G+G C majorC G+G C majorC G+G C majorC G+G


         C majorC G+G
There was a time
        C majorC G+G
A augmentedA simpler time
                   D MajorD   C-D-G
When a man could be sure of where he stood
              C majorC G+G
I used to work at the yard
            C majorC G+G
Working honest and hard
                   D MajorD       C majorC
The hours were long, but the pay was oh, so good


CHORUS:
             G+G     C majorC
Certain things that you depend upon
              G+G   C majorC
I used to think were guaranteed
            G+G
Like the right of every man to work
         E minorEm          C majorC
And feed his family, and feed his family
         G+G    C majorC
And the faces of America
           G+G    C majorC
Seem so distant and estranged
              G+G
Have their eyes become too blind to see
  D MajorD           E minorEm
How much their hearts have changed (how much their hearts have changed)
              C majorC
How much their hearts have changed (how much their hearts have changed)
              G+G
How much their hearts have changed


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