The Dreamer chords by Marty Robbins
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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When I was a
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young man beginnin' my teens
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How well I remember the lickin's I'd
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get cause I'd dream
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My work never finished, barely begun
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I couldn't get started till all
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of my dreamin' was done
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Verse 2
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I wouldn't shuck cotton', I
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wouldn't chop wood
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And Pa would whip me and say
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that's for bein' no good
But I kept chasin' rainbows,
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finally I found
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The great open range and the hills were
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my best dreamin' ground
Verse 3
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When I left the home place
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our Mother did cry
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She begged me to stay there
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and not say goodbye
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My Pa told my Mother,
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your tears are in vain
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Your son is a dreamer and the
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winds call his name
Verse 4
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So don't try to stop him,
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let him move on
'Cause he won't stop his driftin'
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Till all of his dreamin' is gone
Verse 5
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Last night in a campfire a face I did see
A vision of Mother,
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she seemed to be callin' to me
For seventeen years now,
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I've drifted alone
But I wanna see Mother,
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tomorrow I start driftin' home
Verse 6
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The last hill I've climbed now,
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and what do I see
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An old run down shack where
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the ranch used to be
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Then I see a tombstone
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and then see one more
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I drifted too long from the old
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ranch house door
Verse 7
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There's nothin' more left now but driftin',
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it seems
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But I hope I can dream of the
lickin's I'd get
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'Cause I'd dream
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The Dreamer
Marty Robbins
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