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".
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 |
ⓘ Guitar chords for 'The Cloud Factory' by June Tabor, a female folk artist from Warwick, GB. June Tabor was born in 1947.