Ralph McTell

In The Dreamtime(Chords)

Ralph McTell

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The scent of smoke on desert wind, beneath the southern cross, 
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Far beyond where time begins, and generations lost. 
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I could not be further from you now, 
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With both feet on the ground.  
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But in the dreamtime souls take flight,  
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And I am closer to you now. 
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If I should lay me down to sleep, by forest green or shining lake, 
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I could arise to find it gone, to take for granted my mistake. 
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Yet I could not be further from you now, 
     Am        F      G 
With both feet on the ground.  
           C         G          C 
But in the dreamtime souls take flight,  
    F    C      G      C 
And I am closer to you now. 
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Mountains crumble forests vanish, seeds awakened by the fire, 
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Water air and the earth have born them and I can feel my own ones near. 
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Yet I could not be further from you now, 
     Am        F      G 
With both feet on the ground.  
           C         G         C 
But in the dreamtime souls take flight,  
    F    C      G      C 
And I am closer to you now. 
C          G       C      F    C         Am        Dm     G 
Flames are dancing in the fire, timeless songs are on the air, 
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In the wilderness they?re crying, but there?s laughter everywhere. 
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Yet I could not be further from you now, 
     Am        F      G 
With both feet on the ground.  
           C         G          C 
But in the dreamtime souls take flight,  
    F    C      G      C 
And I am closer to you now.
	        

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