Am  G  C    Am  G  C

[Verse]
C
There's a time when the truth is bad
C
And that's so very sad, I know
     F
When I was a kid, like a mother's sigh
F
I used to hear the freight trains cry
                    C
They kept me on the go, you know
F
Even now I stop to hear
F
The big trucks a-shifting gear
                    C                 Am
It's what I want to know, you know

[Chorus]
    G        C      Am
Hmm hmm, hmm hmm
    G        C
Hmm hmm, hmm hmm

[Verse]
C
There's a time when the past is past
C
Filled with things that never last, I know
    F
The freight trains' lonesome whistles cry
F
Becomes a song but there's the sky
                     C
Spring always comes again, hmm hmm
F
That old car, it was Christmas time
F
Filled with kids and they were all crying
                     C              Am
They had no place to go, I know

[Chorus]
    G        C       Am
Hmm hmm, hmm hmm
    G        C
Hmm hmm, hmm hmm

[Verse]
C
There's a time when you face your soul
C
To find if you are true and whole, you know
F
I remember your face so clear
F
Sometimes it seems I hear
                     C
The softness of your sigh, your sigh
    F
And I remember another time
F
Autumn's here and summer's dying
                    C
You asked me not to go, don't go

[Instrumental]
Am  G  C    Am  G  C
C       F    C    F    C
Am  G  C    Am  G  C

[Verse]
C
There's a time when you face the sky
C
To find if you are here and why, you know
  F
I like to watch the eagle fly
 F
In the early dawn when the dew's not dry
                 C
I hear a rooster crow, hmm hmm
F
Just like a morning star
F
That you see from afar
                         C               Am
Through the clear, clear sky, the sky

[Chorus]
    G        C       Am
Hmm hmm, hmm hmm
    G        C       Am
Hmm hmm, hmm hmm

[Chorus]
    G        C       Am
Hmm hmm, hmm hmm
    G        C
Hmm hmm, hmm hmm