Goodnight to mother's dream chords by Nanci Griffith
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Flippin' bottle caps through the
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ring around the moon
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All alone on a Saturday night
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with the stars in bloom
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I am a vision of my mother's
dream come true
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Built this house out in the hills
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All by my own will
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I've got love enough for two
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But it's just me and this old moon
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And the sailors on the water
Verse 2
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G#m
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They all want the captain's daughter
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They want her beauty and her youth
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B
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To grace their bow out on the sea
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G#m
Me, I'm getting older and I'm plain
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As plain can be
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Got a bank full of mother's dreams
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Maybe mother just didn't see
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That love would be the only thing
Verse 3
Her daughter would ever need
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Oh,
I am
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the heart not taken
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G#m
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The one thought not worth breakin'
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I am the late blooming rose
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G#m
With only her mother's dream to hold
On this less travelled road
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Who really knows
G#m
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Maybe the hearts not taken
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Are truly made of gold
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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I'm gonna flip one more bottle cap
up at the moon
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I've got an early call with so
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much work to do
But, when I go inside I'm gonna let
my back door slam
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Bm
Mother, to tell you the truth
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I would trade your dream away
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Just to hear some loved one say
Interlude 2
I love you, too
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G#m
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C#
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G#m
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Bm
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G#m
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Verse 5
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Say goodnight to the moon
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I'll say I love you to the moon
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B
Bm
And to my mother too
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'Buenos suenos' to the moon
Goodnight to mother's dream
Nanci griffith
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