The Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream) chords by
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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Key: D major•

Verse 1

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Way back in my memory

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there's a scene that I recall

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Of a little run-down cabin

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cabin in the woods

Where my dad never promised that our

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blue moon would turn gold

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But he laid awake nights

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wishin' that it would

Verse 2

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When the world was on our radio,

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hard work was on our minds

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We lived our day-to-day in in

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in plain dirt fashion

With ol' overalls and cotton balls

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all strapped across your back

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Man, it's hard to make believe

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there ain't nothing wrong

Verse 3

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But mama kept the Bible read,

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and daddy kept our family fed

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And somewhere in between

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I must have grown

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'Cause someday I was dreamin'

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that a song that I was singin'

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Takes me down the road to

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where I want to go

Verse 4

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Now I know it's a long,

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A

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hard road

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Sometimes, I remember when

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I stay up late at night

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When the sun up came,

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we got up and went

In the shadows of a working day,

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our moonlight hours spent

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Singin' songs along with grandma's radio

Verse 5

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Now I'm beatin' down a ol' blacktop road,

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sleepin' in a sack

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Livin' in my memories all in vain

'Cause those city lights ain't all that bright,

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compared to what it's like

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To see lightning bugs go

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dancin' in the rain

Verse 6

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A

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Mama played the guitar then,

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and daddy made the saw blade bend

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And raindrops played

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the tin roof like a drum

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A

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But I just kept on dreamin' that

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a song that I was singin'

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Takes me down the road

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to where my name is known

Verse 7

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Now I'm gone, and it's a long,

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hard road

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Yes, I know, it's a long,

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hard road

Outro 1

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