Song While You're Away chords by
Tyler Childers

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Key: G major•

Verse 1
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Up in your nephew's room,
playing on his cousin's guitar
F F 
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C C 
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C C 
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I  wrote a song for you
You have done drove off
with everything I need
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My box and my tumbleweed

Verse 2

Am

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I picked it up on the way

D

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to Flagstaff years ago

Am

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I was hanging on to everything

D

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you had the grace to show

Verse 3
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You were young and you were
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hungry
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Lord knows I was hungry too
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We were both flat- out starving
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For something worthwhile

Interlude 1

to lose

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Verse 4
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Looking over the hill at
the lights of your hometown
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I  wrote this song for you
Thinking of the way we met,
a girl home from school
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And a boy just passing through

Verse 5

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I got a job as a cut man

D

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at a house just down the road

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I had never been to town before,

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and I didn't know a soul

Verse 6
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I was young and I was hungry
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Lord knows you were hungry too
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We were both flat- out starving
C C 
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G G 
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For something worthwhile to lose
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You were my bread and I was your honey
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Up against the dark red wine
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Trying to hold on to the lovely
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Through the bitter of our times

Interlude 2

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Verse 7

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Agate white wedding dress,

D

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and turquoise on your ring

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Upright bass and violin

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as you walk the aisle to me

Verse 8
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I was young and I was hungry
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G G 
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Lord knows you were hungry too
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We were both flat- out starving
C C 
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G G 
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For something worthwhile to lose
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You were my bread and I was your honey
C C 
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C C 
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G G 
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Up against the dark red wine
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Trying to hold on to the lovely
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Through the bitter of our

Outro 1

times

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