The road you leave behind (video)
C - Em - F (2x)
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F
1. I remember the night my dad
stopped the car
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and
got out in the rain,
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changed
a blown out tyre on a car
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for a
family with out of state plates.
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I said, dad, did we know those
folks,
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as
they waved and drove out of site,
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he
just smiled as he started the car,
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he
said, son not 'til tonight.
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You see the road you leave behind you
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C
is another road you're gonna have to come back down,
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it's just the way this big old
world turns 'round.
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You'll find somehow, somewhere, someplace, sometime,
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you gotta
go back down the road you leave behind.
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2. Stuck
out on the highway one night,
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many
years gone by,
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had
the hood of my truck pulled up,
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my ol' gas tank was
dry.
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Some ol'
guy gettin' off on the night shift,
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pulled
up to check on me,
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he
said, I been in your shoes before
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son,
and it's no place to be.
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You see the road you leave behind you
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C
is another road you're gonna have to come back down,
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it's just the way this big old
world turns 'round, you’ll find
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somehow, somewhere, someplace,
sometime,
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G C
you gotta
go back down the road you leave behind.
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+ I said, what do I owe you, friend,
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you
could easily have passed me by.
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He said, next time it might be me, son,
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you
don't owe me a dime. + CHORUS
C - Em - F G C
Down the road
you leave behind,
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G C
the
road you leave behind.
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that
old road you leave behind.
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down
the road you leave behind ...
(orig. = capo 4th) (David Lee
Murphy)