Joan Baez – The Dream Song (Guitar)

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I had a dream I was following a barefoot girl

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Beside a stream that flowed around the world

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And we spoke of many things though her mouth never moved

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As the most peculiar scenes were disappearing into view, oh what a dream

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Beyond the realm of why

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Pretty little beings beneath the yawning sky

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Speaking of God as though they could define

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Music to the deaf and color to the blind or God to man

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And then the leaves became a thousand tears

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And I was on my knees in a crazy house of mirrors

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I couldn't find my face but a voice was drawing nearer

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Hush baby, sweet baby, hush don't you cry

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And I thought I woke and my mother was standing there

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And my heart broke as the ribbons in her hair

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Turned into highways surrounded and swirled

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Like a crown come down around a not so perfect world

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In the corner of the dream was the man with the blue guitar

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It had no strings but the music touched the stars

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And his long dark curls turned to gold before my eyes

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And the barefoot girl smiled off to the side and it was real

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Then a thousand birds took flight with a joyful noise

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And I heard the angels up on high rejoice

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I could see my face and I recognized the voice

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Hush baby, sweet baby, hush baby hush

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It's just a dream, one of those that goes on and on

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Scene after scene with the rhythm of a gypsy song

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When I really woke I was frozen in between

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I didn't know who I was, it was a dream inside a dream

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It's all a dream

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Oh what a dream

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I had a dream