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