[Intro]
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[Riff 1] (x3)
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[Verse]
C G F
Once - The dogs have quit their barking
C G F
"Son," - my neighbor said to me.
C G F
"Know the emptiness of talking blue
C G F
the same old sheep."
C G F
Run - I'll do no more this walking
C G
Haunted by a past I just can't see
F
Anymore Anymore
C
But let me tell you I never planned
G
To let go of the hand that has been
F
Clinging by its thick country skin
C G F
To my yellow country teeth, To my yellow country teeth
[Riff 1] (x3)
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[Verse]
C G F
Far - Far away from West Virginia
C G F
I - Will try New York City
C
Explaining that the sky holds the
G
Wind the sun rushes in and a child
F
With a shotgun can shoot down
C
Honeybees that sting
G F
But this boy could use a little sting. Alright.
[Interlude] (x4)
C G F
[Riff 2] (x2)
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[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
C G F
Who - Will get me to a party?
C G F
Who - Do I have yet to meet?
C G
You - You look a bit like coffee
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And you taste a bit like me
C G F
How - Can I keep me from moving?
C G F
Now - I need a change of scenery, just listen to me
C
I won't pretend to
G
Understand the movement of the wind
F
Or the waves out in the ocean or how
C G
Like the hours I change softly slowly
F
Plainly blindly oh me oh my!
[Outro] (x4)
C G F
[Riff 1] (x3)
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[Outro]
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