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