Where The Dream Begins chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Tom Russell - Where The Dream Begins


CAPO: 2nd Fret


Intro:
C majorC FF C majorC  G+G C majorC

Verse 1:
                FF    C majorC
What happened to the kid in the baseball cap?
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Well, he’s trying to get home but I think he lost the map
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What happened to the kid with the braces on his teeth?
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He had an autographed picture of Muhammad Ali
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He’s just a wise-assed, buck-toothed, near-sighted fool
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Always staring at the girls in the swimming pool
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Thirty years later and he’s staring again
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He’s searching for the place where the dreams begin
         A minorAm           DmDm  C majorC
Searching for the place where the dream begins

Verse 2:
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Then he bought a bunch of records and he heard a man sing
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He said, "If I could write a song, I believe I’d be a king"
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But it took him twenty years until he got the nerve
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He’s got boxes full of papers and papers full of words
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And the words fly away like swallows on the wind
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But they never flew back to the nest again
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Never took him to the place where the dream begins


Interlude:
C majorC FF C majorC  G+G C majorC

Verse 3:
                  FF       C majorC
Then he finally got married and he had two little girls
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But he didn’t see ‘em much cause he had to see the world
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And the lie that he told ‘em is "I’m like most men
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It’s always down the road that the dream begins"
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And the girls grew up to be pretty and wise
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They said, "You could have seen the dream by looking in our eyes
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You were always living in the world of pretend
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You kept running away from where the dream begins
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Running away from where the dream begins"


Verse 4:
                  FF     C majorC
Now he’s living with a woman out on Borderland Road
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But her love’s turned bitter and her eyes turned cold
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She said, "We came to the desert, let the sickness mend
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But Hell ain’t the place where the dreams begin"
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Look out boys I’m gaining on you
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He’s old Blind Joe Death in his alligator shoes
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He’s got a pocketful of pills and a pint of sloe gin
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He’s gonna show you to the place where the dream begins
      A minorAm           DmDm
Follow him down where the dream begins


Interlude:
C majorC FF C majorC  G+G C majorC


Verse 5:
                  FF      C majorC
At the end of the road there ain’t nothing but fear
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Just a big old room with a big old mirror
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And the man in the mirror his hair’s turning grey
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And his hands begin to shake in a funny kind of way
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He’s knows everything you bring for to save your soul
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Everything denied will condemn you to the hole
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With his hand on his heart, he picks up his pen
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He goes searching for the place where the dream begins
        A minorAm           DmDm  C majorC
Looking for the place where the dream begins


Outro:
                FF    C majorC
What happened to the kid in the baseball cap?
                  G+G         C majorC
Well, he’s trying to get home but I think he lost the map


Outro:
C majorC FF C majorC  G+G C majorC