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The Cloud Factory by June Tabor
The Cloud Factory
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:G
Capo:no capo
[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 |
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