Where The Dream Begins

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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

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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

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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.

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