Ralph McTell – In The Dreamtime (Guitar)

    C        G        C      F    C            Am       Dm       G       
The scent of smoke on desert wind, beneath the southern cross,

C     G          C      F    C        Am      Dm      G
Far beyond where time begins, and generations lost.

C              F                C
I could not be further from you now,

     Am        F      G
With both feet on the ground. 

           C         G          C
But in the dreamtime souls take flight, 

    F    C      G      C
And I am closer to you now.

   C        G      C       F     C          Am       Dm       G
If I should lay me down to sleep, by forest green or shining lake,

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I could arise to find it gone, to take for granted my mistake.

    C              F                C
Yet I could not be further from you now,

     Am        F      G
With both feet on the ground. 

           C         G          C
But in the dreamtime souls take flight, 

    F    C      G      C
And I am closer to you now.

C         G       C       F       C      Am      Dm     G
Mountains crumble forests vanish, seeds awakened by the fire,

C     G           C          F        C          Am      G        C   
Water air and the earth have born them and I can feel my own ones near.

    C              F                C
Yet I could not be further from you now,

     Am        F      G
With both feet on the ground. 

           C         G         C
But in the dreamtime souls take flight, 

    F    C      G      C
And I am closer to you now.

C          G       C      F    C         Am        Dm     G
Flames are dancing in the fire, timeless songs are on the air,

C      G     C            F      C            Am       G    C
In the wilderness they're crying, but there's laughter everywhere.

    C              F                C
Yet I could not be further from you now,

     Am        F      G
With both feet on the ground. 

           C         G          C
But in the dreamtime souls take flight, 

    F    C      G      C
And I am closer to you now.