Faces Of America chords by Dan Fogelberg

Dan Fogelberg - Faces Of America


INTRO: G  C  (4x)  G

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

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


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


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


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


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


INSTRUMENTAL: C  G  C  G  C  G  C  G


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


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


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