The Wind From Rainbow's End
Words and music by Bill Roper © 1981


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When I was a child, I made my way to school
    F                 G              F            Am
And found the ways of children to be terrible and cruel.
Am          D               G                Am
Since I was different, they chose me for the one –
    F                G            Am
The subject of their pleasure, to torment just for fun.


When I was older, I found new books to read –
Of sorcerers and heroes, of wondrous words and deeds.
Dick and Jane and little Spot were quickly cast aside
As I dwelled in the fantasy of a magic carpet ride.

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	Am  C          Am         Fmaj7            G  G7
	And I dream of stars, and rockets spitting fire.
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	I dream of fairies and hobbits in the Shire.
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	And pray for a wind that blows from Rainbow's End
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	To carry me away where I won't have to pretend.


And from the worlds I read of, I forged a mighty shield –
A gleaming wall of armor for the schoolyard battlefield.
And all the other children, they left me now alone,
For none of them could follow to the place where I had gone.

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Now I am much older and school is far behind,
But still I am encircled by the walls within my mind.
And though they once kept others out, they've trapped me now within,
And I know I can't escape them – I don't know how to begin.

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