The Cloud Factory chords by June Tabor

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
| G | D Em . | G | C D . | G | Em . D | . . G | G |


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

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

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


Instrumental:
| G . Em | A G . | C D . | G . D | Em . D | D | G |


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


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


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


Instrumental:
| G | G . D | Em . A | G . C | D | G . Em | . D . | D | G |


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


Chorus:
  C            G
My father taught me how to sing.
  Am    G     D
To sing that dreams are everything,
C              G
Can't be bought and can't be sold,
     Em   D     G
More than silver, more than gold.


Outro:
| G | G . Em | D | D C . | G | G |