• Song:

    Been To Canaan

  • Artist:

    Carole King

  • Album:

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This is Carole's cracker off the Rhymes and Reasons Album(1972)

It is in the correct key , but transposing makes it easier. It is about her home in Connecticut.

Intro
Fm7  Ebmaj7  several times
Verse
Fm7   Bb11         Ebmaj7
Green fields and rolling hills
Fm7   Bb11         Ebmaj7
Room enough to do what we will
Abmaj7          Gm7      Cm      Fm7
Sweet dreams of yestertime are running though my mind
    Bb11             Bb7
Of a place I left behind, 
Chorus
Abmaj7              Ebmaj7
Been so long, I can't remember when
     Fm7                  Bb11         Ebmaj7
I've been to Canaan and I want to go back again.
  Abmaj7            Ebmaj7
Been so long, I'm living till then
        Fm7                     Abmaj7  
Cause I've been to Canaan and I won't rest until
 Fm7 Bb11   Ebmaj7
I go back again. 
Verse 2
Though I'm content with myself
Sometimes I long to be somewhere else
I try to do what I can, but with our day to day demands
We all need a promised land.

Chorus 2
Been so long,I can't remember when
I've been to Canaan and I want to go back again
Been so long, I'm living till then
'cause I've been to Canaan and I won't rest until
I go back again. 
Bridge
Ab     Abmaj7                  Cm7
Oh I want to be there in the wintertime
       Abmaj7               Fm7
With a fireplace burning to warm me
    Bb11   Abmaj7   Fm7        Bb11
And you to hold me when it's stormy
Chorus 3

Been so long, I can't remember when
I've been to Canaan and I want to go back again
Been so long, I'm living till then.
'cause I've been to Canaan and I won't rest until
I go back again.
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