In The Dreamtime Chords
by Ralph McTell
In The Dreamtime by Ralph McTell is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, F, Am and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C G C F C Am Dm G
The scent of smoke on desert wind, beneath the southern cross,
C G C F C Am Dm G
Far beyond where time begins, and generations lost.
C F C
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.
C G C F C Am Dm G
If I should lay me down to sleep, by forest green or shining lake,
C G C F C Am G C
I could arise to find it gone, to take for granted my mistake.
C F C
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.
C G C F C Am Dm G
Mountains crumble forests vanish, seeds awakened by the fire,
C G C F C Am G C
Water air and the earth have born them and I can feel my own ones near.
C F C
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.
C G C F C Am Dm G
Flames are dancing in the fire, timeless songs are on the air,
C G C F C Am G C
In the wilderness they’re crying, but there’s laughter everywhere.
C F C
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.