The last thing
on my mind
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1. It's a lesson too late for the learnin', made of
sand, made of sand,
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in
the wink of an eye my soul is turnin', in your hand, in your hand.
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Are you going away with no word of farewell ?
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Will there be not a trace left behind ?
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Well, I could have loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind,
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you know that was the last thing
on my mind.
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2. You've got reasons a-plenty for goin', this I know, this I know,
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for
the weeds have been steadily growin',
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please
don't go, please don't go.
+ CHORUS + instrumental = verse 2
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3. As I lie in my bed in the mornin', without you, without you,
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each
song in my breast dies a bornin', without you, without you.
+ CHORUS
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+ That was the last thing on my
mind.
(orig. = no capo; live in G) (Tom Paxton)