Looking for the moon

 

    F - G - C

 

             C                    C7                            F                    Dm

1. My heart is in the mountains, while my body is on this train,

             G                 G7                 C

     my head is anywhere but in today.

             C                C7                  F                      Dm

    It’s cloudy in the city, and they say it looks like rain,

                  G                        G7                          C

    got just one time long to hear the conductor say.

 

  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -    F        - G                         

Are you looking for the moon ?

                                              Em         - Am

Would you dance with her tonight ?

                                                      F          - G

Would you chase her cross the shadows,

                                          C         - C7

as she goes sifting out of sight ?

                                             F            - G

Leaving common sense behind you,

                                    Em    - Am

for a joy that ends so soon,

                                            F                                               G

rushing through the forest blind, never knowing what you find,

                           C

looking for the moon.

 

+ Dm - G - C

 

             C                          C7                F                            Dm

2. The train is filled with strangers and every stop there’s more,

               G                            G7                        C

    we’re racing towards the glass and granite walls.

                        C                    C7                     F                      Dm

     While I‘m dreaming of my river where the rushing rapids grow,

                     G                           G7                   C

    and from somewhere deep inside my spirit calls.

 

+ CHORUS   + CHORUS as instrumental

 

 

 

 

 

            C                 C7               F                 Dm

3. We pull into the station and I join the taxi line,

          G                             G7                    C

    it’s raining now like it means to rain all day.

             C                 C7                           F                    Dm

    This city has ten million dreams, not one of them is mine,

            G                   G7                         C

    so I turn myself around and I walk away.

 

  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   F        - G                        

And I’ll go looking for the moon,

                                       Em       - Am

and I’ll dance with her tonight ?

                                               F            - G

and I’ll chase her cross the shadows,

                                             C       - C7

as she goes slipping out of sight.

                                             F           - G

Leaving common sense behind me,

                                    Em    - Am

for a joy that ends so soon,

                                            F                                         G

rushing through the forest blind, never knowing what I find,

                           C

looking for the moon.

 

                                                 F                                          G

    Rushing through the forest blind, never knowing what I find,

                               C

    looking for the moon.

                                          Dm - G - C

    Are you looking for the moo……..n ?

 

    (Tom Paxton)