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