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