Key: E major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Well my heart's in The Highlands,
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gentle and fair
Bluebells blazing where the
Interlude 1
Verse 2
night in my dreams
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Everything was exactly the
Woke up this mornin' and I looked
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at the same old page
Same old rat race,
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life in the same old cage
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ain't that much to take
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a real blonde and a fake
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I wish someone'd come and
Verse 3
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Well my heart's in The Highlands
wherever I roam
That's where I'll be when
The wind it whispers to the
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I can only get there one step at a time
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I gotta turn up the sound
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Someone's always yellin'
Feel like I'm driftin',
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driftin' from scene to scene
I'm wonderin' what in the devil
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could it all possibly mean
Interlude 2
Verse 4
If I had a conscience,
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well I just might blow my top
What would I do with it anyway,
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maybe take it to the pawn shop?
Big white clouds like chariots
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Verse 5
I'm in Boston town in some restaurant
Or maybe I do but I'm just
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really not sure
Waitress comes over,
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nobody in the place but me and her
Well it must be a holiday,
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there's nobody around
She got a pretty face and long
white shiny legs
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Verse 6
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I said "Tell me what I want"
She say "You probably want
I said "That's right, bring me some"
She says "We ain't got any,
Then she says "I know you're an artist,
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I said "I would if I could but
Well she's there,
she says "I'm right here in front of you
Verse 7
Or haven't you looked?"
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I say "All right, I know but I don't
She gives me a napkin,
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she say "You can do it on that"
She pulls one out from behind her ear
She says "Alright now go ahead draw
I make a few lines and I show
Interlude 3
"That don't look a thing like me"
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Verse 8
She say "You must be joking",
I said "I wish I was"
women authors do ya?"
At least that's what I
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and what would it matter anyway?"
Well she says "Ya just don't
seem like ya do"
I said "You're way wrong"
She says "Which ones have you read then?",
I say "Read Erica Jong"
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Verse 9
Way up in the border country
With the twang of the arrow
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can't see any other way to go
Every day is the same thing, out the door
Feel further away than ever before
Interlude 4
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Verse 10
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They're drinkin' and dancin',
All the young men with the young
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in a minute if I could
I'm crossin' the street to get
away from a mangy dog
I think what I need might be a
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Somebody just asked me if
Interlude 5
I'm registered to vote
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The sun is beginnin'
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to shine on me
But it's not like the sun that
The party's over and there's
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less and less to say
I got new eyes,
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everything looks far away
Well my heart's in The Highlands
at the break of day
There's a way to get there,
and I'll figure it out somehow
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Well I'm already there in my mind
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE A Em B
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