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
Fm7Bb11Ebmaj7
Green fields and rolling hills
Fm7Bb11Ebmaj7
Room enough to do what we will
Abmaj7Gm7CmFm7
Sweet dreams of yestertime are running though my mind
Bb11Bb7
Of a place I left behind,
Chorus
Abmaj7Ebmaj7
Been so long, I can't remember when
Fm7Bb11Ebmaj7
I've been to Canaan and I want to go back again.
Abmaj7Ebmaj7
Been so long, I'm living till then
Fm7Abmaj7
Cause I've been to Canaan and I won't rest until
Fm7Bb11Ebmaj7
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
AbAbmaj7Cm7
Oh I want to be there in the wintertime
Abmaj7Fm7
With a fireplace burning to warm me
Bb11Abmaj7Fm7Bb11
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.