The Cloud Factory chords by June Tabor

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
| G+G | D MajorD E minorEm . | G+G | C majorC D MajorD . | G+G | E minorEm . D MajorD | . . G+G | G+G |


Verse 1:
  G+G   D MajorD            E minorEm
My father worked in the Cloud Factory,
   E MajorE     G+G      C majorC      D MajorD
He'd come home wreathed in dreams each day
  G+G           E minorEm
My Mother took his cloudy clothes
  D MajorD              G+G
To wash the threads of dreams away.
   C majorC              G+G
She'd scold and say "you and your dreams,
             D MajorD
They're just for kids or fools like you."
  C majorC             G+G
But father he'd just wink his eye
       E minorEm      D MajorD      G+G
and smile and say "Are you sure that's true?"

Verse 2:
  G+G   D MajorD        E minorEm
My mother thought him fanciful,
  E MajorE    G+G     C majorC    D MajorD
She used to chide him all the while,
  G+G   D MajorD         E minorEm
But me, I thought him wonderful,
   D MajorD        G+G
Do anything to see him smile.
 C majorC            G+G
I used to hear him singing low,
  A minorAm    G+G        D MajorD
His words are with me to this day:
   C majorC            G+G
"You have to hold on to your dreams
       E minorEm   D MajorD   G+G
or else they simply slip away".

Chorus:
  C majorC            G+G
My father taught me how to sing.
  G+G          D MajorD
He sang that dreams are everything,
C majorC              G+G
Can't be bought and can't be sold,
     E minorEm   D MajorD     G+G
More than silver, more than gold.

Instrumental:
| G+G . E minorEm | A augmentedA G+G . | C majorC D MajorD . | G+G . D MajorD | E minorEm . D MajorD | D MajorD | G+G |


Verse 3:
  G+G          D MajorD    E minorEm
The last time I saw him ill and dying,
  A augmentedA  G+G       D MajorD
The only time I saw him cry.
D MajorD                E minorEm
Too late for dreams to come true now,
   E minorEm           D MajorD    G+G
As he watched his last clouds rolling by.
   C majorC            G+G
Back home she opened windows wide,
  A minorAm   G+G      C majorC     D MajorD
And out the dreams flew, strand by strand
  C majorC        G+G
Til all but one had flown away
       D MajorD       G+G
I caught and kept it in my hand.


Verse 4:
  G+G       D MajorD    E minorEm
My mother doesn't do much lately
    G+G     C majorC   D MajorD
No more clouds to clear away.
  G+G               E minorEm
And since they closed the factory down
         D MajorD     G+G
No dreams seem to drift this way.
 C majorC              G+G
I caught her sitting alone and still,
  G+G             D MajorD
At first I thought her fast asleep.
  C majorC            G+G
But father's coat lay in her lap
      E MajorE    D MajorD     G+G
Around her feet the dreams lay deep.


Chorus:
  C majorC            G+G
She said he taught me how to sing.
  G+G          C majorC
To sing that dreams are everything,
C majorC              G+G
Can't be bought and can't be sold,
     E minorEm   D MajorD     G+G
More than silver, more than gold.


Instrumental:
| G+G | G+G . D MajorD | E minorEm . A augmentedA | G+G . C majorC | D MajorD | G+G . E minorEm | . D MajorD . | D MajorD | G+G |


Verse 5:
  G+G    D MajorD           E minorEm
Sometimes I walk where the disused factory
  G+G   C majorC      D MajorD
And gaze into the empty sky,
G+G           E minorEm
And if I let the fancy lead me
 D MajorD    E minorEm    D MajorD    G+G
A augmentedA dream or two comes drifting by.
   C majorC            G+G
I'll teach my children how to sing,
  G+G             D MajorD
To sing that dreams are everything,
C majorC              G+G
Can't be bought and can't be sold,
     E minorEm   D MajorD     G+G
More than silver, more than gold.


Chorus:
  C majorC            G+G
My father taught me how to sing.
  A minorAm    G+G     D MajorD
To sing that dreams are everything,
C majorC              G+G
Can't be bought and can't be sold,
     E minorEm   D MajorD     G+G
More than silver, more than gold.


Outro:
| G+G | G+G . E minorEm | D MajorD | D MajorD C majorC . | G+G | G+G |