The road
to El Dorado
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1. On the road to El Dorado, I stopped to smell the flowers,
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I lay content amongst their
sweet scent as minutes turn to
hours.
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Around me birds were singing a song as pure as an angels’ tears,
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time
slipped away, hours turned to days, and
days turned into years.
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3. I searched for El Dorado, nearly all my life,
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with
little thought to whom or what I
have to sacrifice,
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to
drink deep from the holy grail on the altar of success,
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I thought if I could sup from
that golden cup
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I'd find peace and happiness.
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3. But the Road to El Dorado is a steep and slippery track,
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for
every yard I climbed I would find I
slipped two yards back.
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Never found my El Dorado or
walked its golden streets,
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though
it still gleamed deep in my dreams twas' always out of reach.
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+ instrumental = verse 3
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4. On the Road to El Dorado I looked only straight ahead,
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deaf
and blind to the true behind the dreams inside my head,
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until
I saw the sunshine dancing in the
morning air,
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and I realized El
Dorado lies around us
everywhere.
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5. On the road to El Dorado, I stopped to smell the flowers,
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A D Bm
- G A
I lay content amongst their
sweet scent as minutes turn to
hours.
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Around me birds were singing a song as pure as an angels’ tears,
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- G A D
time
slipped away, hours turned to days,
and days turned into years.
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(Eric Bogle)