Artist: Don Freed
Song: Come away from the Roadside
Capo: 4th
Tuning: Standard
Pattern: Finger Picking or pick-strum
C Am
Come away from the roadside,
F C
your feat, it is done.
G
The battle is over,
Am F C
you have both lost and won.
G Am
For the drums, they're but an echo,
F C
your trumpet players die
Am
come away, come away
F G C
and know how hard you tried.
C Am
the King, he holds the aces,
F C
he has not held your hand.
Am
the Queen, with her embraces,
F G C
you did not understand.
G Am
and the seeds that have fallen,
F C
along the weary hobo's trail,
Am
and just as they have fallen,
F G C
don't let yourself be felled.
C Am
Come away from the roadside,
F C
your spirit's, crimson string.
Am
There are many among us,
F G C
who stumbled in the same.
G Am
But there's something that cries out to you,
F C
that you must heed the dream,
Am
if you are to be what you wish to be,
F G C
then be what you must be.