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Raeleen wheeler was the first girl I loved
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Through the last year of high school,
D#7
We were thicker than blood
C# G#
Holed up in Mississippi, and starvin’ for fun
D# G#
We made love and dreamed up places to run
C# G#
I was burnin’ that summer with the big dreams I had
D#
And the songs I’d written, well, the world needed bad
C# G# Fm
But a pretty girl needs more comfort and gold
G# D# G#
Than a beat-up black notebook is likely to hold
[Chorus 1]
C# G#
Hey, Raelene, it’s a wide world between pearl river
A#7 D#
And the bright L.A. lights
C# F
And if I’d done it all without dreamin’
C# G# D# G#
I’d still be in Jackson tonight
[Solo]
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[Verse 2]
G# C# G#
Hollywood hopefuls ain’t an endangered breed
D#
But luck is like lightnin’, and it sure struck me
C# G# Fm
The hit songs, the women, the standing-room halls
G# D# G#
And twenty years of hard labor, holdin’ on to it all
[Solo]
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F7 A# D# A#
Louisiana I-20 headed east from Monroe
F
F bus bound for Jackson and a homecoming show
D# A# Gm
Staring through the dark glass at the flat miles beyond
A# F A#
Tryin’ not to look at a face that is gone
[Chorus 2]
D# A# C7 F
Hey, Raelene, a wife at 19, but I heard you made out all right
D# Gm D#
and every now and again, I still wonder
A# F A#
Are you somewhere in Jackson tonight?
[Solo]
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| F | A# | A# | A# | A#
[Verse 3]
A# D# A#
Well, we killed ‘em, we crushed ‘em, burned the place to the ground
F
And in the dressing room quiet, I was still coming down
D# A# Gm
When in the doorway appeared an old flame, full-grown
A# F A#
Looking pretty as ever, and entirely alone
D# A#
She said the divorce nearly broke her, she was learning to stand
F
And as she talked it came clearer that she wanted a hand
D# Gm Gm
So, I drew her close to me, and I kissed my sweet Rae
A# F A#
And the miles and the memories just melted away
[Verse 4]
C N.C. F C
Then I glanced in the mirror, and in a split second’s time
N.C. G
Just before recognizing that old face as mine
F N.C. C Am
I saw a strange, sad man in a cheap rhinestone shirt
N.C. G C
And a woman he held onto like his last hope on earth
N.C. F C
He was worn and trod down as the road he’d been on
N.C. G
And his eyes were half-dead, lookin’ too hard, too long
N.C. F C Am
His life measured in nights that flashed and grew dim
N.C. C N.C.
Leaving no one really happy, least of all him
[Verse 5]
C F C
Then the loading gate slammed, and I let my arms fall
G
We traded numbers, small talk, promised to call
F C Am
And as she faded from me, and the night closed around
F G C
Well, I picked up a black notebook and I let it spill down
[Chorus 3]
F C D G
Hey, Raelene, it’s a long way between the wantin’ and the makin’ it right
F Am F C G C
And if I was the one that you needed I’d never leave Jackson tonight
[Outro]
F Am F C G C
Yeah, if I had it all to do over I’d still be in Jackson tonight
F Am G
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