Donny Douglas – Country Music Legend

Intro: D C G DD C G D

Verse

D                                      C                     G                  D

The sun comes up on a twenty first century heatwave

D                                         C             G            D

A child look up feels the heat upon his skin

D                                    C                        G               D

A January morning a new day has started undaunted

C                          G

Is it too late now?

C                                   G

Are the words all empty and lost?

C                                              G                                    D                                                                  D7

Is the talking to aliens or is there a chance that your brothers your enemies friend?

C                              G          C                                           G

What have we done? You think you’re the innocent one

C                                   G                                       D                                    D7

But you’re just as guilty as those who decided to sit in the sun – ohhhhh

Guitar break over C G and D7

C                  G       F                     Bb

It takes a man, to make a stand

Eb                       Cm

So why do we fight?

Eb                       Cm

So why do we hide from our fate

F                  Dm                           G

Is it our destiny just to be late?

D                                    C              G                         D

Do you just give in when a door is blocking your path

D                                             C              G                             D

Can you really not read when a sign just won’t make you laugh

D                                           C              G                         D

Will you excuse the scene if it’s not the one you have chosen?

C                                  G            C                         G

The question’s an answer, not rhetoric rhyme

C                           G                                             D                          D7

I can’t see the answer although I can still see all the signs

C                         G        F                                 Bb

A woman or man, the frame in your hand

Eb                    Cm          Eb                 Cm

A picture of green, a picture of green under blue

F                        Dm                                  G

A picture of anything other than you

End

D

Can you see your soul climbing over the hill

Em

Picking up speed on the track

C                                               G

Do you hear a light murmur that might just be red?

C                                                  G

and a cotton wool carpet that might be your bed

C                                                             D                                               G

Or a real estate agent salesman that might have a hole in his head?

instrumental

DCGDCGDCG

D                       G

Is it too late now?

C                                   G

Are the words all empty and lost?

C                                              G                                    D                                                                  D7

Is the talking to aliens or is there a chance that your brothers your enemies friend?

C                              G          C                                           G

What have we done? You think you’re the innocent one

C                                   G                                       D                                    D7

But you’re just as guilty as those who decided to sit in the sun – ohhhhh

Base run down

C                  G       F                     Bb

It takes a man, to make a stand

Eb                       Cm

So why do we fight?

Eb                       Cm

So why do we hide from our fate

F                  Dm                           G

Is it our destiny just to be late?

Download the songsheet: Twenty first century heatwave

Intro: Am C Am C

Verse

Am                                                                                                   C

There was a time when it was easy to look across the open fields, now that’s just a dream

Am                                                                                                  C

It used to be that I could breath the air and feel the autumn chill, but times have changed

G                                  Am                   C                          D

And sometimes it feels like the changes are me

G                                                       Am                           C                           D

The signs on the window but you look at the glass and can’t read

Chorus

G           Em      B                                           D                                             A

The world turns, changing its mind, feeling the years take a back seat

G           Em      B                               D                                     A                                 Em

The world turns, seeing the signs, watching us slowly halting, the world turns

Verse

Am                                                                                                      C

The worlds still turning but it’s not just the sun that is burning hot, you know it’s not

Am                                                                                                                   C

Our days are numbered yet we count in the hundreds and ignore the rot, how long have we got?

G                                   Am                         C                     D

And just when the numbers are mounting we see

G                                         Am                     C                   D

That while we were counting, we’re lost to the sea

Chorus

G           Em      B                                           D                                             A

The world turns, changing its mind, feeling the years take a back seat

G           Em      B                               D                                     A                                 Em

The world turns, seeing the signs, watching us slowly halting, the world turns

middle eight

Am                      G                           D                           A

And can’t you see it’s how we knew it would be

G-Am                G                               D

We made our bed and now we lie on it

G-Am               G                                               D                        A

I hoped that we would see that it was all so easily changed

C             D                                 A

In the end it just re-arranged

Instrumental break followed by final verse

Am                                                                                                 C

We try to fake it but we’re not going to make it if we steal the rain

Am                                                                                                                 C

It’s plain to see if they were like you and me we could have stayed the same

G                                  Am                   C                      D

Your hearing the words I say roll of your tongue

G                                  Am              C                       D

You’re staring accusing the old and the young

Chorus

G           Em      B                                           D                                             A

The world turns, changing its mind, feeling the years take a back seat

G           Em      B                               D                                     A                                 Em

The world turns, seeing the signs, watching us slowly halting, the world turns

Download the songsheet: World Turns