Where The Dream Begins Chords

Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

C F C G C

What happened to the kid in the F baseball C cap?

Well he’s trying to get home but I G think he lost the C map

What happened to the kid with the F braces on his C teeth?

He had an autographed picture of Mu G hammad C Ali

He’s just a F wise-assed, buck-toothed, Bb near-sighted fool F

Always C staring at the girls in the G swimming C pool

F Thirty years later and he’s Bb staring again F

He’s C searching for the place where the G dreams be C gin

Searching for the Am place where the dream be Dm gins

Then he bought a bunch of records and he F heard a man C sing

He said if I could write a song I be G lieve I’d be a C king

But it took him twenty years un F til he got the C nerve

He’s got boxes full of papers and G papers full of C words

And the F words fly away like Bb swallows on the F wind

But they C never flew back to the G nest A C gain

Never took him to the Am place where the dream be Dm gins

C F C G C

Then he finally got married and he F had two little C girls

But he didn’t see ‘em much cause he G had to see the C world

And the lie that he told ‘em is I’m F like most C men

It’s always down the road that the G dream be C gins

And the F girls grew up to be Bb pretty and wise F

They said “you C could have seen the dream by G looking in our C eyes

F You were always living in the Bb world of pretend F

You kept C running away from F where the dream C begins

Running A Am way from where the dream be Dm gins" C

Now he’s living with a woman out on F Borderland C Road

But her love’s turned bitter, and her G eyes turned C cold

She said we came to the desert, let the F sickness C mend

But Hell ain’t the place where the G dreams be C gin

F Look out boys I’m Bb gaining on you F

He’s old C Blind Joe Death in his G alligator C shoes

He’s got a F pocket full of pills and a Bb pint of sloe gin F

He’s gonna C show you to the place where the G dream be C gins

Follow him Am down where the dream be Dm gins

C F C G C

At the end of the road there ain’t F nothing but C fear

Just a big old room with a G big old C mirror

And the man in the mirror his F hair’s turning C gray

And his hands begin to shake in a G funny kind of C way

He’s knows F everything you bring for to Bb save you soul F

C Everything denied will con G demn you to the C hole

With his F hand on his heart he Bb picks up his pen F

He goes C searching for the place where the G dream be C gins

Looking for the Am place where the dream be Dm gins C

What happened to the kid in the F baseball C cap?

He’s trying to get home but I G think he’s lost the C map.

C F C G C