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