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If I Can Dream

(Walter Earl Brown)


Copyright Gladys Music Inc.


RCA studio session - "Elvis" NBC TV Special - June 20-24, 1968 - Western Recorders - Burbank

 June 23

WPA1 8029-05
October 1968 Single A side RCA 47-9670 If I Can Dream / Edge Of Reality
November 1968 LP RCA LPM 4068 Elvis NBC TV Special
Outtakes:
Takes 1: July 29, 1997 CD RCA 07863-67469-2 Platinum A Life In Music
Takes 3 (fs) and 4: October 1, 2006 CD FTD 88697 02026-2 CD Let Yourself Go!


RCA studio session - "Elvis" NBC TV Special - June 30, 1968 - NBC studios - Burbank

 CPA5 5189-04 - Vocal overdub
October 13, 1998 CD RCA BMG 07863 67612 2 Memories The '68 Comeback Special
Outtakes:
Take 3: July 1999 CD FTD 74321 672299 2 Burbank 68 - The NBC-TV Comeback Special





There must be lights burning brighter somewhere
Got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue
If I can dream of a better land
Where all my brothers walk hand in hand
Tell me why, oh why, oh why can't my dream come true
Oh why


There must be peace and understanding sometime
Strong winds of promise that will blow away the doubt and fear
If I can dream of a warmer sun
Where hope keeps shining on everyone
Tell me why, oh why, oh why can't my dream come true


We're lost in a cloud with too much rain
We're trapped in a world
That's troubled with pain
But as long as a man
Has the strength to dream
He can redeem his soul and fly


Deep in my heart there's a trembling question
Still I am sure that the answer, the answers gonna come somehow
Out there in the dark, there's a beckoning candle,
And while I can think, while I can talk
While I can stand, while I can walk
While I can dream, please let my dream come true
Right now 




	       c             am        f            g
There must be lights burning brighter somewhere
          c            am          f        g
Got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue
         c          c7
If I can dream of a better land
      f                    f7
Where all my brothers walk hand in hand
        c       am      f             em          dm        g
Tell me why, oh why, oh why, can't my dream come true? (oh why)

There must be peace and understanding sometime,
Strong winds of promise that will blow away the doubt and fear,
If I can dream of a warmer sun,
Where hope keeps shining everyone
        c        am      f             em   dm  c     c7
Tell me why, oh why, oh why won't that sun ap---pear?
f               f7    c             c7
We're lost in a cloud with too much rain,
f                  f7    c                    c7
We're trapped in a world that's troubled with pain,
f                f7           c           am
But as long as a man has the strength to dream
        f                  g              a
He can redeem his soul and fly,  (he can fly)
            d               bm       g         a
Deep in my heart there's a tremblin question,
            d             bm                       g        a
Still I am sure that the answer, answer's going to come somehow,
                  d    d7                 g          ab7      
Out there in the dark there's a beckoning candle, o yeah,
                  d                bm
And while I can think, while I can talk,
              d                bm
While I can stand, while I can walk,
             g
While I can dream
                  em
Oh please let my dream
      a
Come true
       d   bm                d               bm
Right now, let it come true now!
   d             g             d
O yeah!