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The Blues Is Just A Bad Dream Chords

Music by: James Taylor
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[Intro 1]
[C][G][Em][Am][C][F][C]
[F][Dm][C][Am][Bb][Am][Bb][Faug]
[Gm][Dm][D][Dm][F][Gm][Dm][Gm][Eb]
[D][Dm][D][Ebdim][Adim][D][Bb]
[Bbaug][D][A][C][G][Dm][D]

[Verse 1]
A [G]tree grows in my back yard
[C]It only grows at night
[G]Its branches they're all twisted
Its leaves are afraid of light
They say the blues [C]is just
a bad dream
They say it lives upside [G]your head[C][G][D]
But when it's lonely in the morn[Bb]ing
[C]You're bound to wish that
[F]you was lying [G]dead[D]
There's [G]winds out on the ocean
They're [C]blowing just as they choose
But [Gm]then winds ain't got no [G]emotion,
baby
And they don't know the blues
They say the [C]blues is just

[Verse 2]
a bad dream
[C]They say it lives upside [G]your head
But when it's [D]lonely, lonely in the morning
[C]You're bound to wish that you was lying dea[G]d[D][G]
[C][G]
[C][F][C]
[F][C][G]
[D][C][F][C][F][G][A]
[G][C][Dm]
[G]My mind is rambling and rambling
[C]Just like some rolling stone, no
[G]Since that nightmare's come to stay
with me, baby
My thoughts just don't belong
They say the [C]blues is just a bad dream
They say it lives upside your [G]head
But when they [D]visit you around midnight
[C]You're bound to wish that you
[G]were lying dead
[A]
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