Faces Of America

Dan Fogelberg - Faces Of America Intro:     (4x)   There was a time    A simpler time                                               -- When a man could be sure of where he stood   I used to work at the yard    Working honest and hard                                               -- The hours were long but the pay was good   I had a family and friends    So many friends                                       -- We’d drive to the lake on holidays   Back then it wasn’t so dear    For a sandwich or beer    At night I still dream I can see their faces Chorus: Certain things that you depend upon   They were places that you’d known   And the faces of America   Oh oh where do they go Where did they go            I was born on a farm    A mid-western farm                                       -- I rode on the tractor with my dad   And though we never had much    It was always enough                                           -- And we made the best with what we had   But then came four years of drought   And the bottom dropped out                                       -- My father was broken like the rest   And I can still see his hands    Signing over his lands    And the bankers grow fat on the flesh of the dispossessed    Chorus: Certain things that you depend upon   There are places I can go    I sift the ashes of America For someplace I used to know (someplace I used to know) Someplace I used to know (someplace I used to know) Someplace I used to know   Instrumental:                There was a time    A simpler time                                              -- When a man could be sure of where he stood   I used to work at the yard    Working honest and hard    The hours were long but the pay was oh so good    Chorus: Certain things that you depend upon   I used to think were guaranteed    Like the right of every man to work   And feed his family and feed his family   And the faces of America    Seem so distant and estranged   Have their eyes become too blind to see   How much their hearts have changed (how much their hearts have changed)   How much their hearts have changed (how much their hearts have changed) How much their hearts have changed OUTRO:  (## repeat and fade to end ##)