Intro: E A
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:
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No postcards or pay tele-phones to help me though the night
C#m B/D# E A A/G# B
Something as simple as calling home never seems to work out right
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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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F# 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:
C#m B/D# E A A/G# B
No postcards or pay tele-phones to help me though the night
C#m B/D# E A A/G# B
Something as simple as calling home never seems to work out right
C#m B/D# E D A E
The hardest part of what I do is missing you
Bridge:
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You spend your married life living with a ghost
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I spend every night missing little things the most
Chorus:
C#m B/D# E A A/G# B
No postcards or pay tele-phones to help me though the night
C#m B/D# E A A/G# B
Something as simple as calling home never seems to work out right
C#m B/D# E D A E
The hardest part of what I do is missing you
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