Key: E major
Intro 1
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It's
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after my work tired and weary,
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I lay down to rest my eyes,
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I see this world change in a whirlwind
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and heaven flies down from the skies;
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I see rising up from my wreckage,
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cities and mansions so bright
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I see my friends eyes and their faces
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lit up with a bright shining light.
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walk through the sunshiny factory where
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dresses and shirts are both clean;
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A brother and sister are singing at work
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as they watch all the wheels;
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No smudge clouds of smoke hid my valley,
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my sight it is clear for miles;
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The mountains are all dancing happy,
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the trees are waving me smiles.
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There are
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no sickly faces about me,
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the children are healthy and gay;
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Not one homeless soul is around me,
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not lost, nor cripple, nor lame;
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The street laid in finest of plastics,
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the atom is laboring as well;
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No airships are crashing here by me,
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no dead ones in burning hotels.
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cars collide nor turn over,
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no death curve along my new road;
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No cheaters, no gam blers, no robbers, no graveyard,
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no prisons, no jails;
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No gasbombs, no brass knucks, no billies,
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no battles 'tween worker and boss;
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No patrolman, no officer, po liceman,
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to ride into crowds on his horse.
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they're shown on the screen and the page;
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The workhand is happy at build ing his
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Profiteers are gone and forgotten,
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except in my history and book,
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My friends all have jobs here in heav
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en and sing as I stand here and look.
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I am sawing the finest made fiddle,
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I am touching the richest skin drum;
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I am blowing the sweetest of woodwinds and
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blowing the deepest of horns;
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I dance to my mu sic I'm making,
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and the world joins in with my dance;
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Science and hope cures the fevers,
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not one grain is blowing by chance.
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Every hand works in hand with the other,
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and not for power nor greed;
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Every hand works to its fullest ability
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and is paid in its deepest of need;
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No cancer, no tuberculosis,
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no paralysis nor asylums are here
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No bowery, nor skid row of homeless,
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no eye that is blinded by tears.
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ion of heaven I dreamed,
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Then you can take new faith in working
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And when I woke up from my sleeping
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and looked down my raggedy street,
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I go back to work with my vision
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and I drink down the bitter and sweet.
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I know as you hear such a dream,
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friend, you will not pass it along;
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I do not expect you to sing it as I do,
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nor to sing such a curious song;
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I wrote down this song for my own self,
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and sing it now to my own soul,
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But if you'll sing songs of your dreamings,
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then you will reap treasures un told.
Outro 1
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