All Some Kind Of Dream chords by Josh Ritter

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse:
C                     Am
I saw my brother in a stranger'??s face
 F                     G
I saw my sister in a smile
 C                     Am
My mother'??s laughter in a far off place
 F                    G
My father's footsteps in each mile
 Am                    Em
I thought I knew who my neighbor was
  F                   G
We didn'??t need to be redeemed
 C                        Am
Oh, what could I have been thinking of?
F          G             C
Was it all some kind of dream?

Verse:
C                       Am
I saw my country in the hungry eyes
F                G
Of a million refugees
 C                        Am
Between the rocks and the rising tide
 F                         G
As they were tossed across the sea
 Am                        Em
There was a time when we were them
 F                      G
Just as now they all are we
 C                             Am
Was there an hour when we took them in?
F          G             C
Or was it all some kind of dream?

Verse:
 C                          Am
I saw the children in the holding pens
 F                       G
I saw the families ripped apart
 C                      Am
And though I try I cannot begin
 F                        G
To know what it did inside their hearts
 Am                           Em
There was a time when we held them close
 F                           G
And weren'??t so cruel, low, and mean
 C                              Am
And we did good unto the least of those
 F          G             C
Or was it all some kind of dream?

Bridge:
C Am Em F G C Am
F    G    C

Verse:
C                          Am
I saw justice with a tattered hem
F                        G
I saw compassion on the run
C                         Am
But I saw dignity in spite of them
 F                           G
I prayed its day would finally come
 Am                          Em
There was a time when we chose our sides
 F                         G
And we refused to live between
 C                            Am
We rose to fight for what we knew was right
 F          G             C
Or was it all some kind of dream?

Verse:
C                               Am
Last night I lay in my true love'??s bed
F                         G
And she lay there close beside
 C                             Am
And we lay thinking â??bout what lay ahead
 F                           G
And wondering if the sun would rise
 Am                           Em
For it seems that these are darker days
 F                       G
Than any others that we'??ve seen
C                                Am
Oh, how we wished that we weren'??t wide awake
 F          G             C
And this was all some kind of dream
 C                                 Am
Oh, how we wished that we weren'??t wide awake
  F          G             C
And this was all some kind of dream