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