Artist: Don Freed
Song: Come away from the Roadside
Capo: 4th
Tuning: Standard
Pattern: Finger Picking or pick-strum
C# A#m
Come away from the roadside,
F# C#
your feat, it is done.
G#
The battle is over,
A#m F# C#
you have both lost and won.
G# A#m
For the drums, they're but an echo,
F# C#
your trumpet players die
A#m
come away, come away
F# G# C#
and know how hard you tried.
C# A#m
the King, he holds the aces,
F# C#
he has not held your hand.
A#m
the Queen, with her embraces,
F# G# C#
you did not understand.
G# A#m
and the seeds that have fallen,
F# C#
along the weary hobo's trail,
A#m
and just as they have fallen,
F# G# C#
don't let yourself be felled.
C# A#m
Come away from the roadside,
F# C#
your spirit's, crimson string.
A#m
There are many among us,
F# G# C#
who stumbled in the same.
G# A#m
But there's something that cries out to you,
F# C#
that you must heed the dream,
A#m
if you are to be what you wish to be,
F# G# C#
then be what you must be.