The Cloud Factory chords by June Tabor

Guitar chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)


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".

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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 |