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