Verse
G#
On a misty morning walk
C# A#m
I met a friend, we sat and talked
D# G#
About a place for us.
G#
All our words rambled high and low
C# A#m
From the Catskills down to New Mexico
D# G#
There's a place for us
G#
From the Coney Island rides
C# A#m
Out to the California tides
D# G#
There's a place for us
G#
Under a storyteller's tree
C# A#m
Or on a riverbank down in Tennessee
D# G# C# D#
There's a place for us
[Chorus 1]
C# D#
Where people gather in the summer heat
C# D#
Talk and laughter float on down the street
Cm Fm
There's a string band playing, and the dancing feet
G# D#
Make such a peaceful sound on the hard concrete
D# C# G# D#
Ba ba ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
D# C# G# D# D#7
Ba ba ba ba ba, ba-ba ba ba ba
[Verse 2]
G#
From the town halls up in Maine
C# A#m
To the windmills on the plains
D# G#
There's a place for us
G#
Where the farmer feeds the town
C# A#m
And the high-school band supplies the sound
D# G#
There's a place for us
G#
When our borders disappear
C# A#m D# G#
And the signs say "You're welcome here"
Where empty New York City lots
C# A#m
Become neighborhood garden plots
D# G#
There's a place for us
G#
From the Rockies to the shore
C# A#m D# G#
When there's a land of poetry and open doors
G#
Under a sky of endless love
C# A#m
Could be the world we're dreaming of
D# G# C# D#
F place for us.
[Chorus 2]
C# D#
Where people gather at an evening fair
C# D#
Crazy orchestras half fill the air
Cm Fm
And at every table there's an extra chair
G# D#
F hand to shake, and a plate to share
D# C# G# D#
Ba ba ba ba ba ba-ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
D# C# G# D# D#7
Ba ba ba ba ba, ba-ba ba ba ba
[Verse 3]
G#
On a misty morning walk
C# A#m
I met a friend, we sat and talked
D# G#
About a place for us
C# D#
F place for all of us
[Outro]