"Sleeper"

       by Greg Brown 
       from Dream Cafe

Standard Tuning  -  Capo 2

     (E A D G B E)
      -----------
G:    3 2 0 0 0 3
Em:   0 2 2 0 0 0
C:    x 3 2 0 1 0
D:    x x 0 2 3 2



       G
It's another happy April

to every happy fool.
    Em
And you move through my dreams

like a trout moves through a pool.
C
Sure I will do anything,

but I blush at the reverie.
G                D       G
Sleeper come and go with me.

G
And she always was a painter

and she left me her suitcase,
Em
and I still remember

the soft lines of her drunken face,
C
as she stood there in my doorway,

like a cat up in a tree.
G                D       G
Sleeper come and go with me.


G
A small farm in Wisconsin

for a driftless man,
Em
supper on the table,

and a lover's tender hands,
            C
though she leaves my salt and woodsmoke,

for a job in the city.
G                D       G
Sleeper come and go with me.


G
I will take you with my children,

through the clover, to the creek,
     Em
when Orion's gone a hunting

through the fields our wishes seek,
         C
where we all can love each other

like sugar in our tea.
G                D       G
Sleeper come and go with me.

G
Well the last wild fling is over

and a cold wind brings the dawn,
   Em
to rows of parking meters

and the shadow of a blond,
       C
who is standing by the wild rye

in a pointless dream.
G                D       G
Sleeper come and go with me.


[repeat first verse]

Submitted by Mike Ferney (ferney@sover.net)