The Dreamer

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[Verse 1]
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When I was a young man be-ginnin'
    C
 my teens
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How well I remember the lickin's 
                 C
I'd get cause I'd dream
   C                    F    
My work never finished, barely 
     C
be-gun
   C                        F     
I couldn't get started till all of
                 C
 my dreamin' was done

[Verse 2]
  C                         F     
I wouldn't shuck cotton', I 
        C
wouldn't chop wood
    C                         F   
And then Pa would whip me and say 
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that's for bein' no good
      C                      F    
But I kept chasin' rainbows, 
     C
finally I found
    C                        F    
The great open range and the hills
                       C
 were my best dreamin' ground

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[Verse 3]
Am                           
When I left the home place our 
  Em
Mother did cry
    Am                          Em
She begged me to stay there and not 
say goodbye
   Am                      Em
My Pa told my Mother, your tears are
 in vain
     Dm                       G
Your son is a dreamer and the winds 
call his name

   C                      F       
So don't try to stop him, let him 
     C
move on
          C                       
'Cause he won't stop his driftin' 
F                           C
Till all of his dreamin' is gone

[Verse 4]
     C                     F      
Last night in a campfire a face I 
    C
did see
   C                     F        
A vision of Mother, she seemed to 
              C
be callin' to me
     C                    F 
For seventeen years now, I've 
           C
drifted alone
      C                 F         
But I wanna see Mother, tomorrow I
                C
 start driftin' home

[Verse 5]
    Am                             
The last hill I've climbed now, and
 Em
 what do I see
    Am                         
An old run down shack where the 
  Em
ranch used to be
     Am                     Em
Then I see a tombstone and then see 
one more
   Dm                        G
I drifted too long from the old 
ranch house door

[Verse 6]
        C                        
There's nothin' more left now but 
  F           C
driftin', it seems
       C                     
But I hope I can dream of the 
 F
lickin's I'd get
            C       Am    C     Am  
  (Cont. until fade)
'Cause I'd dreammm...