Key: D 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
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pass the time
Her mama keeps the baby
and grandpa rambles on
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About the good times playing in his mind
Verse 2
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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
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Josie spends the evening with
the people in the pages
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Of the paperback she picked
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up in the store
Or sometimes it's the TV or
she'll try to write a letter
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But they don't come too
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often anymore
Verse 4
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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 5
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And I stare at the gray
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walls before me
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And I see her face in the stone
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And I try to imagine our baby
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An d I wish they would let me go home
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And I wish they would let me go home
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And I wish they would let me go home
Verse 6
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It's a hard life living when
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you're lonely
And I wish they would let me go home
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It's a long night sleeping alone
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And I wish they would let me go home
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It's a hard time waiting for tomorrow
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And I wish they would let me go home
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It's a long, long way home
And I wish they would let me go home
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It's a long, long way home
And I wish they would let me go home
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Bring me and the other boys home
And I wish they would let me go home
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Bring me and the other boys home
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And I wish they would let me go home
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Bring me and the other boys home
Outro 1
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