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As cars go by I cast my mind's eye
Over back packs on roof racks
Beyond the horizon
Where dream makers
Working white plastic processors
Invite the unwary
SOL
To reach for the pie in the sky
DOm
Go fishing my boy!
SIsus4 SI DOdim SIsus4 SI MIm DO RE
SIsus4
We set out in the spring
RE
With a trunk full of books about everything
SIsus4
About solar devices
RE
And how nice natural childbirth is
DOdim
We cut down some trees
And we trailed our ideals
SIsus4 SI
Through the forest glade
DOdim
We dammed up the stream
And the kids cooled their heels
SIsus4 SI
In the fishing pool we'd made
MIm MIm/RE
We held hands and we exchanged bands
DO RE
And we practically lived off the land
SIsus4
You adopted a fox cub
RE
Whose mother was somebody's coat
SIsus4
You fed him by hand
And then snuggled him down
RE
In the grandfather bed while I wrote
DOdim
We grew our own maize
SIsus4
And I only occasionally went into town
DOdim
To stock up on antibiotics
SIsus4 SI
And shells for the shotgun that I kept around
MIm MIm/RE
I told the kids stories while you worked your loom
DO RE
And the sun went down sooner each day.
SOL
*Chapter six in which Eeyore has a birthday
DO
And gets two presents
RE SOL
Daddy...come on dad
Eeyore the old grey donkey stood by the side
DO
Of the stream and he looked at himself in the water
RE
"Pathetic" he said, "That's what it is"
SIsus4 SI RE
"Good morning Eeyore" said Pooh
DOdim SIsus4 SI
"Oh" said Pooh, He thought for a long time
SIsus4
Then the leaves all fell down
Our crops all turned brown
RE
It was over
SIsus4
As the first snowflakes fell
RE
I realized all was not well in the camp
DOdim
The kids caught bronchitis
SIsus4 SI
The space heater ran out of diesel
DOdim
One weekend a friend from the East,
SIsus4 SI
Rot his soul, stole your heart
MIm
I said "Fuck it then
MIm/RE
Take the kids back to town
DO RE
Maybe I'll see you around"
SOL DO RE SOL LAm7 SOL DO SOL/SI
LAm7 SOL
And so...leaving all our hopes and dreams
DO LAm7 RE
To the wind and the rain
SOL
Taking only our stash
LAm7 SOL
Left our litter and trash
DO
And set out on the road again
SOL/SI LAm7 SOL
On the road again
DO
On the road again
RE SOL MIm
On the road
Bye Bye Daddy, Bye Daddy
MIm
You can bring Pearl she's a darn nice girl
But don't bring Liza
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