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 |