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Lyr/Chords: Somewhere In America (Bogle)

20 Dec 05 - 01:44 PM (#1631538)
Subject: Chord Req: Somewhere In America
From: GUEST,Pete N

Can anyone help? Need chords for Eric Bogle's "Somewhere in America". Discovered it on Martin Wyndham -Read's Sunlit Plains CD but can't get all rthe chords. (Must be those bloody minors!!!!)
Any suggestions much appreciated.
Cheers.
Pete N


20 Dec 05 - 01:48 PM (#1631542)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Somewhere In America
From: GUEST,Pete N

Whoops,
Just realised I posted this request yesterday!!!!! Repeating myself - must be the cucumber sandwaiches I had for tea!!


20 Dec 05 - 02:14 PM (#1631565)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Somewhere In America
From: Peace

Somewhere in America
©1993 Eric Bogle - Greentrax

Across the North Dakota hills, the twilit road unwinds.
The setting sun spreads showers of gold among the dark green pines.
Evening shadows change from grey to an ever deepening blue
And I'm somewhere in America, half a world away from you.

With sixteen towns behind me now, and sixteen more to go,
I've long since stopped believing in the romance of the road.
Though friends and kind hearts wait for me in the town I'm heading to,
Still I'm somewhere in America, half a world away from you.

And the road goes on and on and on, and the road goes on and on and on.

Here and there along the road, welcoming and bright,
the lights from farms and homesteads pierce the dark Dakota night.
But their brightness shines on others' lives, their welcome's for their own,
And I'm somewhere in America, half a world away from home.

But well you know I love this life, the endless road's a stage,
And music's a fever in the blood- a wild bird in a cage.
You and I let that wild bird fly, its bright dreams to pursue,
So now I'm somewhere in America, half a world away from you.


20 Dec 05 - 02:15 PM (#1631566)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Somewhere In America
From: Peace

The lyrics may help someone who knows the chords.


12 Dec 08 - 05:14 PM (#2513817)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Somewhere In America
From: GUEST,Chico

D                G       D                     A
across the north dakota hills the twilit road unwinds
D                      G          D                A          D
the setting sun sprays showers of gold across the dark green pines
                   G          D                         A   
the evening shadows change from grey to an ever deepening blue
       D          G    D               A         D
and i'm somewere in america half a world away from you

Chorus
D                G      A      D
and the road gose on and on and on
             G      A      D          enjoy Chico
the road gose on and on and on