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The Really Strangest Dream – by Ed McCurdy, modified with a warning by Jim Burrill:
(what you need to not know about, in order to preserve that pretty and uncomplicated strange dream you have)
To keep your strangest dream a simple fantasy, never look at any of this info: [Link]/wiki/Kello gg–Briand_Pact, [Link]/lawweb/avalon/imt/kb [Link] ,
[Link]/milestones/1921-1936/kellogg, [Link]/p/recognize-the-day-the-world-outlawed-war, [Link]/outlawry, [Link]/watch?v=A7kpzT8Sr5E
But do listen to the original uncomplicated fantasy dream (with pretty scans and rhymes) : [Link]/watch?v=Oos4eoSNekk ←(key of D, as are chords below ),
[Link]/watch?v=2Pf _Dntb Q8Y, [Link]/watch?v=AZU-9TBP2NY , [Link]/watch?v=WB1UD2G pBcc , [Link]/watch?v=oUKn5 QMaKbI

Let this be a warning. Don’t do what I have done.: arranged by Jim Burrill , with fingering
notation for fretted dulcimer , tuned D A D :
<spoken, with chords played in background:>
Last night I had the strangest dream I’d ever dreamed before. It is true I : D 2→400 2 ,000 6|
8 | D 2→400 2 2 ,000 |

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previously had similar strange dreams, and I know I’m not the only one. | G 3110 | D 200 |
But on those occasions, the vision would scan and rhyme beautifully – a | A 01 | D 000 |
nice uncomplicated fantasy. Before last night’s dream, however, I made a | G 310 , A 101 | D 0 0 |
mistake which has ruined the fantasy for me. e. After seeing something I|
never intended to see, it really got strange. I hope it doesn’t happen to you.
G 310 1 | D 2200 |
| G 10 , A 01
3
| D 0 2 |0

My mistake was just curiosity. I’d heard of a book about the nations of the | G 310 1 | D 0 , B0 m 10 |
2
0

world outlawing war. I thought it was fantasy fiction ! Before I could stop | G 10 , A 01
3
| D 00 :|
it,, I’d learned of a huge popular diverse grassroots coalition in the 1920s Note: The
which put pressure on sixty-two nations to sign an agreement abolishing underlines
in spoken
the use of war to settle disputes. You can still avoid this happening to you ! text are a
guide for
What I’d known about anti-war sentiment in the 1920s was no more than, pacing the
start of
oh, a general sense that there were folks who wanted to believe that crap each group
of eight
about World War I being the end to all wars. Hey, that is all you need to measures.

know. So, close your ears if anyone talks about some pact brokered by US To hear me perform this “talking-folk” version, go to:
and French diplomats with names like Frank Kellogg and Aristide Briand. or search YouTube for:
[Link]/watch?v=dZzGsp8IY00 “Burrill The Really Strangest”

Were you to listen, they’d try to tell you “people need to know about it,”
calling it an incredible grassroots success from which we’ve much to learn.
They’d say it’s still legally binding ! But you already know the bottom line:
It was also the terrible failure of a coalition unable to maintain its pressure
or even awareness of the pact. The movement wrongly believed a piece of
paper itself was a grassroots victory ! So how could we build or even learn
anything from that? Who’d wanna commemorate even a partial failure?
We’d all much rather imagine a future piece of paper ending war. But for
me, my strangest dream has now been ruined. It no longer scans well. It
don’t sound pretty. Hey, these awkward extra words disturb my sleep now:
<sung along with chords; add extra measures as shown:>
Last night I had the strangest dream 6|
8 D 2→400 3 2 ,000 | D 2→400 2 2 ,000 |
I’d ever dreamed before. | G 110 | D 200 |
I dreamed the world had all agreed, on August 27, 1928, | A 01 1 | D 000 | D 200 , Bm 210 |
To put an end to war. | G 10 , A 01
3
| D 00 |
I dreamed I saw a mighty room – filled with delegates. | G 310 1 | D 2200 | G 310 , D 200 |
It was 1928, so all of them were men. | G 10 , 3 A 01
3
| D 00 2 |
And the paper they were signing said | G 10 1 | D 0 , B0 m 10
2
0 |
They’d never fight again. | G 10 , A 01
3
| D 00 |
And when the paper was all signed, | D 2→400 3 2 ,000 | D 2→400 2 2 ,000 | Note: In Word
or WordPad,
And a million copies made, | G 110 | D 200 | type 2 6 2 e

A 01 D 000
and then press
They all joined hands and bowed their heads, | | | [Alt] + x . The
And grateful prayers were prayed. | G 310 , A 101 | D 00 | characters you
typed will

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change to
But while the people in the streets below | G 3
1
0
| D 2200 |
Were dancing ’round and ’round, | G 310 , 3 A 101 | D 00 2 |
No swords nor guns nor uniforms <play this line slower> | G 10 1 | D 0 , B0 m 10
2
0 | which you can
copy/paste to
Were ever scattered on the ground – at least so far... <four words spoken> | G 10 , A 01
3
| D 00 | any other text.

Last night I had the really strangest dream | D 2→400 3 2 ,000 | D 2→400 2 2 ,000 |
I’d ever dreamed before. | G 110 | D 200 |
I dreamed the world had all agreed, on August 27, 1928, | A 01 1 | D 000 | D 200 , Bm 210 |
To put an end to war. <rittard> | G 10 , A 01
3
| D 00 |