Faces Of America keyboard

Faces Of America

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Dan Fogelberg - Faces Of America
 
 
INTRO: G  C  (4x)  G
 
                 C G
There was a time
               C G
A simpler time 
                                     D      C-D-G
When a man could be sure of where he stood 
                           C G
I used to work at the yard
                        C G
Working honest and hard 
                                     D      C-D-G
The hours were long, but the pay was good 
 
 
                           C G
I had a family and friends
                C G
So many friends 
                              D     C-D-G
We'd drive to the lake on holidays 
                            C G
Back then it wasn't so dear
                       C G
For a sandwich or beer 
                                       D     C
At night I still dream I can see their faces 
 
 
CHORUS:
                          G          C
Certain things that you depend upon 
                            G      C
They were places that you'd known  
                  G
And the faces of America 
   D                 Em
Oh oh, where do they go
               G   C  G  C  G
Where did they go 
 
 
                     C G
I was born on a farm
                   C G
A mid-western farm 
                              D     C-D-G
I rode on the tractor with my dad 
                             C G
And though we never had much
                     C G
It was always enough 
                                  D     C-D-G
And we made the best with what we had 
 
 
                                   C G
But then came four years of drought
                          C G
And the bottom dropped out 
                               D     C-D-G
My father was broken, like the rest 
                              C G
And I can still see his hands
                       C G
Signing over his lands 
                                             D              C
And the bankers grow fat on the flesh of the dispossessed 
 
 
CHORUS:
                          G          C
Certain things that you depend upon
                       G    C
There are places I can go
                     G
I sift the ashes of America
        D               Em
For someplace I used to know (someplace I used to know)
    D               C
Someplace I used to know (someplace I used to know)
                    G
Someplace I used to know 
 
 
INSTRUMENTAL: C  G  C  G  C  G  C  G
 
 
                 C G
There was a time
               C G
A simpler time 
                                     D     C-D-G
When a man could be sure of where he stood 
                           C G
I used to work at the yard
                        C G
Working honest and hard 
                                     D             C
The hours were long, but the pay was oh, so good 
 
 
CHORUS:
                          G          C
Certain things that you depend upon
                           G      C
I used to think were guaranteed 
                        G
Like the right of every man to work 
                 Em                   C
And feed his family, and feed his family 
                  G        C
And the faces of America
                      G        C
Seem so distant and estranged 
                           G
Have their eyes become too blind to see 
    D                      Em
How much their hearts have changed (how much their hearts have changed) 
                           C
How much their hearts have changed (how much their hearts have changed)
                           G
How much their hearts have changed
 
 
OUTRO:  (## repeat and fade to end ##)
 
      C  G  

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