Dixie Chicks
Long Time Gone
Home (2002)

(f)  D     G D A   (c)  D  (f)  x 2  (1re x: banjo, 2e: violon)

Daddy sits on the front porch swingin'
Lookin' out on a vacant field
It used to be filled with burly tobacco
Now he knows it never will

My brother found work in Indiana
My sister's a nurse at the old folks home
Momma's still cookin' too much for supper
And me, I've been a long time gone

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  Been a long time gone, no, I ain't hoed a row since I don't know when
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  Long time gone and it ain't comin' back again
  
Delia plays that ol' church piano
Sittin' out on her daddy's farm
She always thought that we'd be together
Lord, I never meant to do her harm

Said she could hear me singin' in the choir
Me I heard another song
I caught wind and hit the road runnin'
And Lord, I've been a long time gone

  Been a long time gone, Lord, I ain't had a prayer since I don't know when
  Long time gone and it ain't comin' back again     (modulation)

E     A E B     E  w/ violon

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Now me, I went to Nashville, tryin' to be the big deal
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Playin' down on Broadway, gettin' there the hard way
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Livin' from a tip jar, sleepin' in my car
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Hockin' my guitar, yeah, I'm gonna be a star

Now me and Delia singin' every Sunday
Watchin' the children and the garden grow
We listen to the radio to hear what's cookin'
But the music ain't   got no soul

Now they sound tired but they don't sound Haggard
They got money but they don't have Cash
They got Junior but they don't have Hank
I think, I think, I think the rest is a

  Long time gone, no, I ain't hit the roof since I don't know when
  Long time gone and it ain't comin' back, I said

  A long time gone, no, I ain't honked a horn since I don't know when
  Long time gone and it ain't comin' back again    (mélodie)

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I said a long time, long time, long time gone, oh it's been a long time
         Long time, long time, long time gone, oh it's been a long    time    gone
         Long time, long time, long time gone, yeah yeah
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