Faces of America chords by
Dan Fogelberg

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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There was a time,

Verse 1

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a simpler time

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When a man could be sure

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of where he stood

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I used to work at the yard,

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working honest and hard

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The hours were long but

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the pay was oh so good

Verse 2

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I had a family and friends,

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oh so many friends

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We'd drive to the lake on holidays

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Back then it wasn't so dear

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for a sandwich or beer

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At night I still dream I can see

their faces

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Verse 3

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Certain things that you depend upon

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There are places that you know

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And the faces of america

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Oh, where do they go,

Interlude 1

where did they go

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Verse 4

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I was born on a farm,

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a mid- western farm

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I rode on the tractor with my dad

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And though we never had much it was

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always enough

Verse 5

And we made the best with what we had

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But then came four years of drought

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and the bottom dropped out

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My father was broken like the rest

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And I can still see his hands

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signing over his lands

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And the bankers grow fat on the flesh

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of the dispossessed

Verse 6

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Certain things that you depend

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upon

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There are places I can go I

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sift the ashes of america

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Em

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For someplace I used to know

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Someplace I used to know

Interlude 2

Someplace I used to know

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Verse 7

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There was a time, a simpler time

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When a man could be sure

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of where he stood

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I used to work at the yard,

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working honest and hard

The hours were long but the pay

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was oh so good

Verse 8

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Certain things that you depend upon

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I used to think were guaranteed

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Like the right of every man to work

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Em

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and feed his family

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And the faces of america seem so

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distant and estranged

Have their eyes become

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too blind to see

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How much their hearts have changed

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How much their hearts have changed

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How much their hearts have changed

Outro 1

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Chords

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