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