Intro: G# C#
Verse:
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I don't know much more desolate
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Than north Mississippi headed west
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Three more days I'll turn around
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Then I'll be Alabama bound
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I65 exit 53
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Dinosaurs staring in the driver's seat
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Well I made all the way through Tennessee
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By now you know better than to wait for me
Chorus:
Fm D#/G G# C# C#/C D#
No postcards or pay tele-phones to help me though the night
Fm D#/G G# C# C#/C D#
Something as simple as calling home never seems to work out right
Fm D#/G G# F# C# G#
The hardest part of what I do is missing you
Verse 2:
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Piss poor coffee hotel bed
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A# thousand songs saying what's in my head
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That don't mean that it aint true
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When I comes down to me and you
Chorus:
Fm D#/G G# C# C#/C D#
No postcards or pay tele-phones to help me though the night
Fm D#/G G# C# C#/C D#
Something as simple as calling home never seems to work out right
Fm D#/G G# F# C# G#
The hardest part of what I do is missing you
Bridge:
C# C#/C D# G#
You spend your married life living with a ghost
C# C#/C D#/G
I spend every night missing little things the most
Chorus:
Fm D#/G G# C# C#/C D#
No postcards or pay tele-phones to help me though the night
Fm D#/G G# C# C#/C D#
Something as simple as calling home never seems to work out right
Fm D#/G G# F# C# G#
The hardest part of what I do is missing you
G# C