This is Carole's cracker off the Rhymes and Reasons Album(1972)
It is in the correct key , but transposing makes it easier. It is about her home in Connecticut.
Intro
Fm7 Ebmaj7 several times
Verse
Fm7 Bb11 Ebmaj7
Green fields and rolling hills
Fm7 Bb11 Ebmaj7
Room enough to do what we will
Abmaj7 Gm7 Cm Fm7
Sweet dreams of yestertime are running though my mind
Bb11 Bb7
Of a place I left behind,
Chorus
Abmaj7 Ebmaj7
Been so long, I can't remember when
Fm7 Bb11 Ebmaj7
I've been to Canaan and I want to go back again.
Abmaj7 Ebmaj7
Been so long, I'm living till then
Fm7 Abmaj7
Cause I've been to Canaan and I won't rest until
Fm7 Bb11 Ebmaj7
I go back again.
Verse 2
Though I'm content with myself
Sometimes I long to be somewhere else
I try to do what I can, but with our day to day demands
We all need a promised land.
Chorus 2
Been so long,I can't remember when
I've been to Canaan and I want to go back again
Been so long, I'm living till then
'cause I've been to Canaan and I won't rest until
I go back again.
Bridge
Ab Abmaj7 Cm7
Oh I want to be there in the wintertime
Abmaj7 Fm7
With a fireplace burning to warm me
Bb11 Abmaj7 Fm7 Bb11
And you to hold me when it's stormy
Chorus 3
Been so long, I can't remember when
I've been to Canaan and I want to go back again
Been so long, I'm living till then.
'cause I've been to Canaan and I won't rest until
I go back again.
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