Ralph McTell - In the Dreamtime

      
 
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 The scent of smoke on desert wind, beneath the southern cross,
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 Far beyond where time begins, and generations lost.
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 I could not be further from you now,
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 With both feet on the ground.
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 But in the dreamtime souls take flight,
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 And I am closer to you now.
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 If I should lay me down to sleep, by forest green or shining lake,
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 I could arise to find it gone, to take for granted my mistake.
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 Yet I could not be further from you now,
      Am        F      G      
 With both feet on the ground.
            C         G          C      
 But in the dreamtime souls take flight,
     F    C      G      C   
 And I am closer to you now.
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 Mountains crumble forests vanish, seeds awakened by the fire,
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 Water air and the earth have born them and I can feel my own ones near.
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 Yet I could not be further from you now,
      Am        F      G      
 With both feet on the ground.
            C         G         C       
 But in the dreamtime souls take flight,
     F    C      G      C   
 And I am closer to you now.
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 Flames are dancing in the fire, timeless songs are on the air,
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 In the wilderness they?re crying, but there?s laughter everywhere.
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 Yet I could not be further from you now,
      Am        F      G      
 With both feet on the ground.
            C         G          C      
 But in the dreamtime souls take flight,
     F    C      G      C   
 And I am closer to you now.