Weary Old Highway

Intro
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Verse 1
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You'd think after years of just giving it all
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While playing your heart out and no curtain call
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After large fame and fortune just passes on by
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You'd think any rounder would kiss it goodbye
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But a few days at home and I'm back in the grind
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Dead broke and ornery, half out of my mind
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'Til a call comes in from some old slick I once knew
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So I pack up my guitar and shine up my shoes

Chorus
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On a lonesome old highway and a weary old road
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My two-lane companion shoulders the load
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Won't you take me right back where I come from before
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Weary old highway
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Take me back, take me down home oncе more

Instrumental Break
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Verse 2
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It's not for the money whеn it's never quite there
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Or packing it up in the cold midnight air
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It's not for the glamour of living alone
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In a thousand cheap hotels we get to call home
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But it's call time at Sharkey's on a Saturday night
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When the air is electric and the music is tight
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It's choosing a pathway that's always been there
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With a good-tuned guitar, I've made it, I swear

Chorus
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On a lonesome old highway and a weary old road
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My two-lane companion shoulders the load
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Won't you take me right back where I come from before
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Weary old highway
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Take me back, take me down home oncе more

Chorus
     D                                    E7
On a lonesome old highway and a weary old road
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My two-lane companion shoulders the load
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Won't you take me right back where I come from before
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Weary old highway
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Take me back, take me down home oncе more

Outro
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Weary old highway (Highway)
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Weary old highway (Highway)
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Weary old highway