Key: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Josie works the counter at the downtown five and dime,
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anything at all to help her pass the time.
Her mama keeps the baby and grandpa rambles
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on about the good times playing in his mind.
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It's a hard life living when you're lonely,
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it's a long night sleeping alone.
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It's a hard time waiting for tomorrow,
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it's a long, long way home.
Verse 2
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Josie spends the evening with the people in the pages of
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the paperback she picked up at the store.
Or sometimes it's the TV, or she'll try to write a letter,
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oh, they don't come too often anymore.
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It's a hard life living when you're lonely,
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it's a long night sleeping alone.
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It's a hard time waiting for tomorrow, it's a long,
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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I stare at the gray walls before me,
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I see her face in the stone.
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I try to imagine our baby,
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I wish they would let me go home. I wish they would let me go home.
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(I wish they would let me go home) It's
(I wish they would let me go home) It's
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a hard time waiting for tomorrow,
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(I wish they would let me go home) It's a long,
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me and the other boys home,
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Am
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me and the other boys home.
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