On the Wings of A Dream

Words and Music by John Denver
from It's About Time (1983)


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Yesterday I had a dream about dying
        Bm        D             G
About laying to rest and then flying
          C         G          D
How the moment at hand is the only thing
           G        D
We really own

       G         D/F#       G
And I lay in my bed and I wonder 
      Bm            D           G
After all has been said and is done for
 C          G           D
Why is it thus we are here 
                    G
And so soon we are gone

          C
Is this life just a path to the place
                       G
That we all have come from
            C
Does the heart know the way
                             G
And if not, can it ever be found
       C
In a smile or a tear or a prayer 
                G      D  C  G  D7
Or a sigh or a song


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And if so, then I sing for my father
        Bm              D           G
And in truth you must know I would rather
         C          G  
He were here by my side
           D                     G       D
We could fly on the wings of a dream
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To a place where the spirit would find us
         Bm         D            G
And the joy and surrender would bind us
       C       G   
We are one anyway
    D                       G
Anyway we are more than we seem

            C
There are those who will lead us
                             G
Protect us each step of the way
        C
From beginning to end
                              G
For each moment forever each day
        C
Such a gift has been given 
                        G      D  C  G  D7
It can never be taken away

(Instrumental)


            G       D/F#         G
Though the body in passing must leave us
         Bm         D          G
There is one who remains to receive us
            C            G  
There are those in this life
          D                        G       D
Who are friends from our heavenly home
      G             D/F#     G
So I listen to the voices inside me
        Bm            D            G
For I know they are there just to guide me
        C           G             D
And my faith will proclaim it is so
               G       
We are never alone

          C
From the life to the light
                                   G
From the dark of the night to the dawn
       C
He is so in my heart
                              G
He is here he could never be gone
            C
Though the singer is silent
                                 G      D  C 
There still is the truth of the song
        G   D7
In the song


          G         D/F#        G
Yesterday I had a dream about dying
        Bm        D             G
About laying to rest and then flying
          C         G          D
How the moment at hand is the only thing
           G        D
We really own

       G         D/F#       G
And I lay in my bed and I wonder 
      Bm            D           G
After all has been said and is done for
 C          G           D
Why is it thus we are here 
                    G
And so soon we are gone
     C          G           D
Oh, why is it thus we are here
                    G
And so soon we are gone