[Verse 1]
C
Eight more miles - and I'll be home
F
Back in your grace - where I belong
C
Tonight I'm sleepin' - in my own bed
G7
With my blue tick feather pillow underneath my head
C
I feel the wheels - on sixty-five
F
I don't know when - I felt so alive
C G7
Eight more miles - eight more miles
C
And I'll be home
[Verse 2]
Since I've been gone - everything's changed
F
There's been two weeks - of steady rain
C
The dogwoods bloomed - pink and white
G7
And that damp smell of new cut grass is everywhere tonight
C
Sweet sunny south - I never knew
F
Just how much - I could miss you
C G7
Eight more miles - eight more miles
C
And I'll be home
[Instrumental break]
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[Verse 3]
I crossed the Rockies - on a silver train
F
I walked through Bergen - in pouring rain
C
I've met with strangers - I came to love
G7
And I've gotten drunk with Chieftains in a Dublin hotel pub
C
And I dearly love - these memories
F
All that matters - right now to me
C G7
Is eight more miles - eight more miles
C
And I'll be home
[Tag]
G7 C
Eight more miles - eight more miles - and I'll be home