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Up on Main St, they built a highway
Bm G
Changed its name to Johnson Boulevard
D A
Up on Thursday down on Friday
Bm G
People ask me why are things so hard
D
Times been hard though
A Bm
From Laredo to San Jacinto
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And it’s a long way back home
D A
There’s an old train in a stock yard
Bm G
It’s like a graveyard of things come and gone
D A
And the wind moves on a gravestone
Bm
Where the names gone
G
And everybody knows
D
Times been hard though
A Bm
In Laredo to San Jacinto
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And it’s a long way back home
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Sometimes you’re standing still
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And the wind just beats you down
Bm A
Oh and sometimes it’s just so hard
E G A
to keep your two feet right there on the ground
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D
Mother’s faithful
A
She goes to church still
Bm
Prays on Sunday
G
And Mondays too
D
Father's somewhere
A
In the back field
Bm
Thinking out loud
G
That this ain'’t nothing new
D
Times been hard though
A Bm
From Laredo to San Jacinto
G A Bm
So why don’t we just go back home
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Why don’t we just go back home