1. LONELY HIGHWAY

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    I'm never going back to Jackson  

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    I couldn't bear to show my face  
I nearly killed you with my drinking  
Wouldn't be caught dead in that place

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(C): Lonely highway -- Only friend  

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     You've got me to keep you warm again.
Lonely Highway -- Don't you cry.  
Let me hold you in my arms tonight.  

And as I hurtle down the highway  
Past the factories and the graves  
I think of all the years I wasted  
I think of all the years I've saved... (C) 




2. LONG VERMONT ROADS

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Your eyes are long Vermont roads  
With a tacky song on the radio  
And your eyes are toothless young men  
In Tennessee in the rain again.  
And fireflies never go to sleep.  
And country songs never help you sleep. 

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(C): But after all those trains and all those breakdown lanes 
The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to  
After all those days on godforsaken highways  
The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to.  

Your eyes are the Mesa Verde  Big and brown and far away  
And your eyes are Kansas City in Kansas and in Missouri (C)

But after all this time and after all your crying
The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to  
The roads are dark and long and all those country songs  
Well, they don't love you and they still won't pretend to




3. BORN ON A TRAIN

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Some roads are only seen at night  
Ghost roads -- nothing but neon signs.  
But some nights the neon gas gets free 
and turns into walking dead like me  

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(C): And I've been making promises I know I'll never keep
One of these days I'm gonna leave you in your sleep  
I'll have to go when the whistle blows, the whistle knows my name  

E           F#        B
Baby, I was born on a train.  


Well I know that you were never young  
And I know you probably won't get old  
But honey nobody's gonna hurt you anymore  
And nobody's going to make you want to die (C) 

I'll go some cold and grey morning, 
and you won't remember anything  
Some people don't believe in dying, 
but some of us don't believe in life (C)




4. I HAVE THE MOON

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We have walked in ancient times and we've been burned for many crimes

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We have ended many lives but we never really died  

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(C): You have the sun I have the moon  

You have to fly around the world all day to keep the sun upon your face  
I'd like to come and comfort you but I'd be blinded by the blue (C)  

You're bound to die under the sun and I'll be doomed to carry on  
You have become like other men but let me kiss you once again (C)




5. TWO CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A COUNTRY SONG

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You were just like me        You were one big bruise  


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In the game of life you were playing to lose  

You were Jesse James  I was William Tell  
You were Daniel Webster, I was the devil himself.
  
   C             G                 F
(C): Two characters in search of a country song  
Just make-believe but so in love  
Two characters been listening all night long  
For voices from Nashville above.

Hell on eighteen wheels at a hundred per  
We went crashing through the Jersey barrier  
But the road went on over dale and hill  
You were Calamity Jane and I was Wild Bill (C)




6. CROWD OF DRIFTERS

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Sometimes the road is too long        You meet all kinds of people  
Some of them cast no shadow  They have no reflections  
Take a look in your photobook  I'm not there anymore  

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(C): I was a  traveling salesman  
I got lost on the backroads 
Fell in with a crowd of drifters. 

Sometimes the sun is too bright  And it burns you like acid  
You get to love driving at night  The moon is so close you can kiss it  
I used to remember you smiling and waving  
I don't think I can anymore (C) 

We come, unnoticed, at sundown  At the start of a blackout 
We set bonfires all over town  And it's over by morning  
Sometimes we bring the rat and the wolf  And sometimes the worm (C)




7. FEAR OF TRAINS

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It was the army train that took her daddy from her  
It was the bible train that took her momma too  

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And that high loud whistle made her horse run away  

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But the straw the broke the camel's back was you
  
It was the government train that took away her childhood  
It was the KKK that took away her past  
It was the white man's will that hers be broken  
But that barefoot girl could run too fast  

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(C): Because the world's too cold for a girl like that 

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with a Blackfoot soul and a cowboy hat 
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Everything she loved went down the dragon track

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She had a fear of trains.  

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  In the beet fields of Montana -- She's always coming on dead rails  
to break the plow and whisper "Honey, bound to live is bound to fail" 
And in a park in San Francisco her momma shrieks about the Lord  
And down the dead rails there's an echo  
The wind is whistling all-aboard (C) 

It was the wagon train that took away her country 
It was the oil train that took away her land  
She could have been the belle of the ponderosa 
but that was not the fat man's plan (C)




8. WHEN THE OPEN ROAD IS CLOSING IN

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Time -- measured in dotted yellow lines has passed you by  
and I never said an honest thing to you in all my life  

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Hard times go slowly and the good times never come  
The world is a motor inn in an Iowa highway slum

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(C): When the open road is closing in  

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And you can't say where it ends and you begin  

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And every truckstop dive's another five years off your life  

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When the open road is closing in  

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and the dotted yellow lines begin to spin

        Em            D            C                 B  
And the sky begins to fall on everything you like at all  

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    You won't be coming home again.

Ciao You keep on drowning in the roads between the towns   
Now, I have been closing all the shutters in the house  
Well, I know you'll be back when every tree is turning brown
You'll find the house is empty and the swing set's fallen down (C)




9. SUNSET CITY 

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Well I don't care what people say  Life is too short to hang around  
So I stay so long in a place and then move on to the next town 

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(C): Sunset City  I've gotta see the world  

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Don't hold me too tightly  Don't whisper my name  
Sad-eyed baby I'm not that kind of girl  
When the dice stop rolling there's no more to the game 

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When the time comes to say goodbye...

And in the morning I'll be gone for other towns and other lives  
I'll catch the first train bag in hand 
and I won't miss you and you won't cry. (C)