I Tried Going West chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Verse 1
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I tried going
west
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where the sky meets the sun
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Where the edge of the
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world's always been
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As far from this place as a
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girl gets to run
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When her reasons to stay have worn thin

Verse 2
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Out there the days were so
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bright and so blue
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Yet I missed all my thunder and rain
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The way a storm punctures
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a hot afternoon
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Washing away every stain
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Verse 3

When my maps pointed north

they were calling for snow

To cover all sound and all sight

Tell me where on this earth does

all that noise go

Underneath all of that white

Verse 4
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With thaws scarcely mentioned
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I dug out my truck
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By the time the storm cleared I was gone
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Back on the road with the ra dio up
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Singing at the top of my lungs

Interlude 1

Verse 5
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Driving and crying and driving some more
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Oh the south is a good place to hide
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Hot nights, cold beer and
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creaky screen doors
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And a motel's vacancy sign
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A letter a day

Verse 6
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I wrote back home to you
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But not one you ever received
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Because I can't stand a man
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who lies like you do
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And I can't bear a woman who pleads
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Interlude 2

Verse 7
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One day it dawned I had
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run out      of road
And out of reasons to run
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Like a horse to the barn I was hell bent to go
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As fast going back as I'd come
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Home,

Verse 8
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home was the song that I sang
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As I pulled in just before dark
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There was only a hook where your
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coat used to hang
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That's where I hung up my
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heart