Shadows On The Wind chords by Janis Ian

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Verse 1
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 (E minor)  (C major)  (E minor)  (C major) In  (E minor) my  dreams
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of late I  (C major) seem another
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Someone  (E minor) I've never been  (C major) 
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 (E minor) All around me are the shapes
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 (C major) of  (D major) shadows on the  (E minor) wind  (C major)  (E minor) 
Here's the ghost
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of what my  (C major) mother wanted
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In  (E minor) the shade of father's dreams  (C major) 
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They  (E minor) are gone and still unhaunted,  (C major) 
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rest (D major) less go -betweens  (E minor)  (A minor) 
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Fatherless,  (B minor) motherless,
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 (C major) yesterday's child begins
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Life  (A minor) alone, missing  (B minor) home,
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 (C major) orphaned by time
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I spend, like shad (D major) ows on
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 (E minor) the wind.  (C major)  (E minor)  (C major) 
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 (E minor) In  my dreams of late I  (C major) am a vagrant
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An (E minor) d   I've never known a pas (C major) t
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 (E minor) All the memories I have,  (C major) 
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shad (D major) ows on  (E minor) the grass  (C major) 
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 (E minor) What I see of me is  (C major) un familiar
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Like  (E minor) some pearl without a shell  (C major) 
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In  (E minor) the stranger, in the mir (C major) ror,
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someone  (D major) I  once knew  (E minor) well  (A minor) 
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Fatherless,  (B minor) motherless,
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 (C major) yesterday's child begins
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Life  (A minor) alone, miss (B minor) ing home,
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orphaned  (C major) by time
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I spend, like shad (D major) ows on
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the  (E minor) wind.  (C major)  (E minor)  (C major) 
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 (E minor) When I dream of love,
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 (C major) dream my mother
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Anchored  (E minor) to the shifting sand (C major) s
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 (E minor) When I dream of strength,
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I  (C major) dream my  (D major) father's hands  (E minor)  (G major)  (C major) 
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 (E minor) In my dreams of later signs  (C major) and wonders
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On  (E minor) the faces I have worn  (C major) 
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I  (E minor) can't hear the distant thun (C major) der
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of  (D major) shadows being  (E minor) born  (A minor) 
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Fatherless,  (B minor) motherless,
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 (C major) yesterday's child begins
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Life  (A minor) alone, missing  (B minor) home,
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orphaned  (C major) by time
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I spin like shadows  (D major) on the  (E minor) land.  (C major) 
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