Hired Hand chords by Tim Keller

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Verse 1
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And for now, again,
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we'd like to welcome back Tim
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Keller.
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Thank you. Thank you. piano plays
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softly
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Eighteen wheels of music,
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driving highway five
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Not my kind of music,
not my favorite drive
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And I  would never choose it,
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this darkened highway drawn
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The way it just goes on and
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on and on and on alone
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Maybe this guy Roosevelt,
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things won't be so lean.
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I can join my family,
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stop hauling gasoline.
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This darkness is so thick and close,
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the roads all wind and sway.
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It will still be thick and close,
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unloading in Coos Bay.
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This darkness just unfolds,
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it never seems to end.
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Then I'll make it home,
then I'm off again.
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I  have worked for businessmen,
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I have worked on farms,
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and I've worked for this oil company.
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And I've worked for my family,
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I've worked for my country,
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but never have I  ever
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worked for me.
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Never have I ever worked
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for me.
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I left Cape Girardeau
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when I   was twenty -two.
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Working in  that hardware store
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just wasn't much to do.
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And I  held my thumb in the air
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and followed it out west
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The land of opportunity,
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the land of my success
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And I  met my wife at the pier
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they built at Malibu
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And we  have moved from town to town
as our baby grew
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this land ain't no promised
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land of opportunity
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I have been a hired hand
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and never worked for me
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I have worked for businessmen
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I have worked on farms
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and I  worked for this oil company
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And I've worked for my family,
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and I've worked for my country,
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but never have I ever
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worked for me,
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never have I ever
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worked for me.
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They've got a call for me
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to haul some gas to Bonneville
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My one night off, it's double time,
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so I  guess I will
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Cause every day spent living
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is just more money spent
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And every mile I spend alone,
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we're closer to the rent
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And I  have dreams
that don't include Coos
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Bay or Bonneville
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But I   guess I can hold my dreams
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until I pay the bills
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I've worked long and hard
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to make the biggest dreams come true
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Dreams possessed by richer men,
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men I never knew
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And I  have worked for businessmen,
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and I have worked on farms,
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and I  have worked for
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this oil company,
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and I  have worked for my family,
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and I have worked for my country,
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but never have I ever
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worked for me.
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Never have I ever
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worked for me.