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Thread #24514   Message #2261120
Posted By: Jim Dixon
13-Feb-08 - 12:03 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords ADD: Wisconsin (Brian Davies)
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: WISCONSIN (Brian Davies)
This looks like it might be the song that was wanted--8 years ago.

Copied from David HB Drake's web site:

WISCONSIN
(Brian Davies)

Capo 3 to sound in D#
  (C)         G                                              C
There's the town--Guess it's better seen in early light of morning
          Am            F                                    G
Looks run down--Father wrote that it's been losing since the new highway went through
             G                                             C
Here's the place--I was born and raised with seven at the table.
          Am          F                               G
Looks so small--Wonder how this farm can raise a family comfortably at all?
       G
And I want to show you fields I reaped and gathered as I grew
       C                            C
And I wanted you to see the old Wisconsin that I knew.
Other days--might see deer in open field beside the cattle
Unafraid--until Chicago rifles taught them all to keep inside the woods.
Find the door--many years since this old barn has felt a hammer
Many more--since I heard the sound the wind makes fifty feet above the floor
It's a sound that sets you dreaming if it's dreaming that you do
And I wanted you to see the old Wisconsin that I knew.
    F                                        Em
October brought the winter snows from Canada
      F             G                C
We'd pass away the time until the spring
F                                  Em
April brought the good smell of the earth again
          Dm       G
Too many years ago it seems.
Is it late?--In remembering I've forgotten of the hour
Come away--watch the sun die in the pine trees, watch the moon rise on the lake
It's a land that sets you dreaming if it's dreaming that you do
And I wanted you to see the old Wisconsin that I knew.