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Raeleen wheeler was the first girl I loved
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Through the last year of high school,
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We were thicker than blood
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Holed up in Mississippi, and starvin’ for fun
G# C#
We made love and dreamed up places to run
F# C#
I was burnin’ that summer with the big dreams I had
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And the songs I’d written, well, the world needed bad
F# C# A#m
But a pretty girl needs more comfort and gold
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Than a beat-up black notebook is likely to hold
[Chorus 1]
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Hey, Raelene, it’s a wide world between pearl river
D#7 G#
And the bright L.A. lights
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And if I’d done it all without dreamin’
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I’d still be in Jackson tonight
[Solo]
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[Verse 2]
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Hollywood hopefuls ain’t an endangered breed
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But luck is like lightnin’, and it sure struck me
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The hit songs, the women, the standing-room halls
C# G# C#
And twenty years of hard labor, holdin’ on to it all
[Solo]
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A#7 D# G# D#
Louisiana I-20 headed east from Monroe
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A# bus bound for Jackson and a homecoming show
G# D# Cm
Staring through the dark glass at the flat miles beyond
D# A# D#
Tryin’ not to look at a face that is gone
[Chorus 2]
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Hey, Raelene, a wife at 19, but I heard you made out all right
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and every now and again, I still wonder
D# A# D#
Are you somewhere in Jackson tonight?
[Solo]
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[Verse 3]
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Well, we killed ‘em, we crushed ‘em, burned the place to the ground
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And in the dressing room quiet, I was still coming down
G# D# Cm
When in the doorway appeared an old flame, full-grown
D# A# D#
Looking pretty as ever, and entirely alone
G# D#
She said the divorce nearly broke her, she was learning to stand
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And as she talked it came clearer that she wanted a hand
G# Cm Cm
So, I drew her close to me, and I kissed my sweet Rae
D# A# D#
And the miles and the memories just melted away
[Verse 4]
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Then I glanced in the mirror, and in a split second’s time
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Just before recognizing that old face as mine
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I saw a strange, sad man in a cheap rhinestone shirt
N.C. C F
And a woman he held onto like his last hope on earth
N.C. A# F
He was worn and trod down as the road he’d been on
N.C. C
And his eyes were half-dead, lookin’ too hard, too long
N.C. A# F Dm
His life measured in nights that flashed and grew dim
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Leaving no one really happy, least of all him
[Verse 5]
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Then the loading gate slammed, and I let my arms fall
C
We traded numbers, small talk, promised to call
A# F Dm
And as she faded from me, and the night closed around
A# C F
Well, I picked up a black notebook and I let it spill down
[Chorus 3]
A# F G C
Hey, Raelene, it’s a long way between the wantin’ and the makin’ it right
A# Dm A# F C F
And if I was the one that you needed I’d never leave Jackson tonight
[Outro]
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Yeah, if I had it all to do over I’d still be in Jackson tonight
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