#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # From RICKL1@IX.NETCOM.COM Thu May 15 16:59:32 1997 Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 23:52:19 GMT From: RICKL1@IX.NETCOM.COM To: guitar@olga.net Subject: Sweet Desert Childhood Flying Burrito Brothers Chords/Words thanks to Roy J for the words please post corrections Flying Burrito Brothers Sweet Desert Childhood by Gene Parsons G It was off the desert road C G Fourteen miles up in the canyon I was born G Where the rocks were piled up high C And when the sun went down G They looked like big old monsters C You could yell out your whole name A7 C And the echo would come back crystal clear G And the silence was so deafening C G I could hear it like thunder in my ears G I still taste the sweet cool water C G As it bubbled out to quench the burning sand And the cottonwoods stood trembling C G As the desert wind blew soft across the land C Somewhere far away a coyote A7 C Called out his mournful ghostly song G And I knew that very soon C G Sweet desert childhood would be gone C Bm C Can a man ever go back home again? C Am D C G Can a man ever live that way again? G The old windmill made a groan C G As it turned around to face the cold of the night G The proof of all existence C G Crackled warm in the flickering firelight C And the stars were so perfect A7 C That I wondered might this all just be a dream G C G Could this all-alone place really be as magic as it seems? C Am C Can a man ever go back home again? C Am D G Can a man ever live that way again? From Flying Again Columbia Records