I Stayed Away Too Long chords by Don Covay

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Em
Ebdim

Intro 1

Verse 1

Stayin' away too long

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Verse 2

Don't need to go back home

Verse 3

Mmm, I stayin' away too long, yeah

Verse 4
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D 
When I went away, way across the sea I thought
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I would come back home, my big celebrity
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But no one was at the station
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when I got back
C 
Everybody was busy doing
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their in -contact
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D 
Lord, I stayed away too long
Got trouble in my home
I stayed away too long
They wished that I'd stay gone
When I went away,
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I had a wife to come back to
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But too long, was too long to be true
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I wrote her sweet letter
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every day like I should
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D 
But none of my letters did do no good
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D 
I  stayed away too long
No need to come back home
Lord have mercy, mmm baby
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I got a letter from my mother
St.
Don, come home quick
Em 
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Another man is tearin'
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down your home, son
Em 
D 
Em 
D 
Brick by brick
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D 
Lord have mercy
I stayed away too long
No need to go back home
Lord, I stayed away too long, y 'all
I better keep on rollin' on
My kids don't know me
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I'm a stranger to my wife
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While I was gone
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They made a brand new line
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B 
Inflation and hate and  poverty
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Said the only one who was
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there to welcome me
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Em 
Lord, I stayed away too long
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No need to go back home
I stayed away too long
Got trouble in my home
Lord, have mercy
Lord, have mercy
Shit round the state of way too long
They pushin' it out, they gone