Key: E major
Verse 1
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Bb
F
Bb
I was
F
raised in a canyon
Bb
By the country music station
F
Bb
In a richland deserrt dust bowl
F
And the radio towers would
Bb
scrape the low clouds
F
Bb
And sway when the wind would blow
F
The mu sic in the kitchen
Bb
Seemed to come from out of nowhere
F
C
But me, I'd want to know
Bb
I'd look up every morning
Dm
And lay there every night
C
Dm
Wondrin' where the songs would go
C
Wondrin' where the songs
F
would go
Bb
F
Bb
Verse 2
F
Out behind the wreckin' yard
Bb
The Rock Island Station
F
Rumbled with the trains rollin'
Bb
in
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And the stockyards would rattle
Bb
With the thunder of the cattle
F
Bb
And they would rumble away again
F
Like a big iron rhino char
Bb
gin' down the track
F
C
I'd watch em disappear and then
Bb
The brakemen and the hobos
Dm
Would leave me there at sundown
C
Dm
Wondering where it all would en d
C
Wondering where it all
would end
F
Bb
F
Verse 3
Bb
Gm
That place you keep in
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side your heart
Gm
F
Where only you can go
Gm
F
Is like a shelter from this world
Dm
Bb
C
That only you can know
F
Only you can know
Bb
F
Bb
Verse 4
F
Down through the canyon
Bb
Rolled a winding river
F
A cross between a trickle
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and a stream
F
I floated wooden boats
Bb
in the long afternoons
F
Bb
Till night, an eternity it seemed
F
I dreamed I saw the angels
Bb
coming for my brother
F
C
And I begged them not to go
Bb
I'd wake up in the moonlight
Dm
With the tears still in my eyes
C
Wondering where
Dm
the dreams did go
C
Wondering where the dreams did go
F
Bb
F
Verse 5
Bb
F
I left behind that canyon
Bb
By the country music station
Fm
F
Bb
Called K - something - so - and- so
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And the radio towers still
Bb
scrape the low clouds
F
Bb
And sway when the winds do blow
F
I traded all my wishes for a
Bb
cloud of blowin' sand
F
C
In a rich land desert dust bowl
Bb
Holed up in a hotel with a
Dm
suitcase full of dreams
C
Dm
Hangin' on to save my soul
C
F
Hangin' on to save my soul
Bb
F
Verse 6
Bb
Gm
F
That place you keep inside your heart
Gm
F
That only you can go
Gm
F
Is like a shelter from this world
Dm
Bb
C
That only you can know
F
Bb
F
Only you can
Bb
know
Outro 1
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Bb
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