Country Dreams

Words and Music by Harry Chapin


(capo 3rd fret)

Open: D - Em - A (2x's)

       D                       A
This phone's growin' in to my ear

         G                   D
I made three hundred calls today

         A                          Em
Though yours is the only voice that I want to hear

    A               Em         A
I gotta make me a living some way


   D                C/G
I know you hate me doing this

    Bm               E
You say I'm selling out

     G                   E7
But how in the hell is a man supposed to live

   A
Selling what it's all about


  D        Am              C                  G
Hello sir. I'm the Pocono Land Development Company
 
           D                 Am            C                     G
And I'm calling you with an offer of some land that you'll just have to see

    Em          D            Em                D
A quarter acre plot, that's what I've got for you

   Em           Dmaj7        Em             D           C/G           Asus  A
Nineteen ninety five, four hundred dollars down and just ten bucks a week


     Em                   Bm
It's two short hours from New York City

    Em               D        D/C#
A Pocono land site green and pretty

         Bm    Bm/A       G     G/F#
There's lakes there and trout streams

   Em          A          D    A          D
Mountain views, country dreams, country dreams


      D                     A
We dreamed our dreams in college girl

      G                   D
Back then we thought we should

          A                    Em 
And we promised that we would save the world

 A                  Em        A
Way back then we thought we could


   D                   C/G
I know you love your teaching now

       Bm            E
But I wish you'd understand

        G               E7
There aren't that many jobs around

      A
I'm doing the best I can


  D        Am              C                  G
Hello sir. I'm the Pocono Land Development Company
 
           D                 Am            C                     G
And I'm calling you with an offer of some land that you'll just have to see

    Em          D            Em                D
A quarter acre plot, that's what I've got for you

   Em           Dmaj7        Em             D           C/G           Asus  A
Nineteen ninety five, four hundred dollars down and just ten bucks a week


     Em                   Bm
It's two short hours from New York City

    Em               D        D/C#
A Pocono land site green and pretty

         Bm    Bm/A       G     G/F#
There's lakes there and trout streams

   Em          A          D    A          Bm
Mountain views, country dreams, country dreams


     Bm
I'm here with forty other guys crowded in a room

 C/G                                    Bm     G    Em  A
Makin' a living selling the moon, and rustic dreams in June

   Bm
I used to hate the city now I'm dwelling in it

  C/G
I used to love the country now I'm selling it

           Bm                     G      A
I'm doing well at it, that's the hell of it


   D                  A
I said that we would find a farm 

     G               D
And live out on the land

      A                     Em
It strange how dreams come back at us

    A                Em      A
In ways that we had never planned


  D              C/G
Here I'm selling real estate
  
      Bm          E
And laughin' at myself

   G                 E7
If I can't have my country dream

           E7               A
I'm gonna sell it out to somebody else


  D        Am              C                  G
Hello sir. I'm the Pocono Land Development Company
 
           D                 Am            C                     G
And I'm calling you with an offer of some land that you'll just have to see

    Em          D            Em                D
A quarter acre plot, that's what I've got for you

   Em           Dmaj7        Em             D           C/G           Asus  A
Nineteen ninety five, four hundred dollars down and just ten bucks a week


     Em                   Bm
It's two short hours from New York City

    Em               D        D/C#
A Pocono land site green and pretty

         Bm    Bm/A       G     G/F#
There's lakes there and trout streams

   Em          A          D    A          D
Mountain views, country dreams, country dreams


  D 
Darlin' don't get mad at me

      Em            A
I'm doing this for you

       D
It's really not so sad to see

         Em          A              D
We had growin' up to do, country dreams


     D
Aw please don't push me any more

      Em             A
It's gonna work out fine

   D       
I know I said I'd quit before

          Em                    A               D      Em - A
But just give me a little more time, country dreams

           D
Country Dreams.

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