Sweet Desert Childhood Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

GIt was off the desert road

 Fourteen Cmiles up in the canyon I was Gborn

GWhere the rocks were piled up high

 And Cwhen the sun went down

 They looked like big old Gmonsters

 You could Cyell out your whole name

 And the A7echo would come back crystal cClear

 And the sGilence was so deafening

 I could Chear it like thunder in my Gears

GI still taste the sweet cool water

 As it Cbubbled out to quench the burning Gsand

And the cottonwoods stood trembling

 As the Cdesert wind blew soft across the lGand

 Somewhere Cfar away a coyote

A7Called out his mournful ghostly Csong

 And I Gknew that very soon

CSweet desert childhood would be Ggone

 Can a CmanBm ever go back hCome again?

 Can a Cman ever Amlive that way aDgain? C G

GThe old windmill made a groan

 As it Cturned around to face the cold of the Gnight

GThe proof of all existence

 Crackled Cwarm in the flickering fireGlight

 And the Cstars were so perfect

 That I wA7ondered might this all just be a Cdream

 Could this Gall-alone place really Cbe as magic as it Gseems?

CCan a man ever Amgo back home aCgain?

CCan a man ever Amlive that way Dagain? G

From Flying Again

Columbia Records