My Elusive Dreams chords by Bobby Bare, Skeeter Davis

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Verse 1
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 (D major) I followed you to
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Texas,  (G major) I  (A major) followed you to
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 (D major) Utah
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We didn't find it there,  (G major) so we moved  (A major) on
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I fol (D major) lowed you to
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 (G major) Alabama
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Thing (A major) s looked good in
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 (D major) Birmingham
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We didn't find it  (G major) there, so we moved  (A major) on
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Em 
I know  (D major) you're tired of  (G major) following  (E minor) my
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 (A major) elusive dreams  (D major) and schemes
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For  (G major) they're only fleeting  (D major) things,
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my  (A major) elusive dreams  (D major) 
I had your child in
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 (G major) Memphis, you  (A major) heard of work in
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 (D major) Nashville
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We didn't find it  (G major) there,
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so we moved  (A major) on
to a small farm in
Nebraska, to a gold mine in
Alaska.
We didn't find it there,
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so we moved on.  (B major) 
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Now  (E major) we've left
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Alaska,  (A major) because  (B major) there
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was no  (E major) gold mine.
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But this  (A major) time, only two  (B major) of us move on.
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Em 
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And  (E major) now  (E minor) all  (A major) we have is each other.
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An (B major) d a little memory that
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 (E major) we can cling to.
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But still,  (A major) you won't let me go on alone.  (B major) 
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F#m 
I know you're  (E major) tired of  (A major) following  (F sharp minor) 
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 (B major) My lucid  (E major) dreams and schemes
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For  (A major) they're only fleeting  (E major) things,
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E 
 (B major) my lucid  (E major) dreams
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 (A major) For they're only fleeting  (E major) things,
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 (B major) my lucid  (E major) dreams