You Can't Go Back Again chords by Dick Curless

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Verse 1
C 
G 
C 
You come in the house for dinner
and you wash your face and
Cm 
C 
hands in a pan.
Throw the water out the back door
and you throw it on a chicken
Dm 
if you can.
G 
Smellin' all the cookin'
and wishin' that the blessin' would end
Oh, I wish that I could smell it,
C 
but you can't go back again
Sittin' on the front porch,
listenin' to the KD did sing
The kids are catching lightning bugs
Dm 
and making little shiny diamond rings.
G 
The folks are trying to figure out
how the wheelers and Higgins are kin.
Wish that I could hear them tell it,
C 
but you can't go back again.
F 
Oh, the kindling's all cut,
and it's stacked,
Am 
they're waiting to burn.
D 
There's a ring on the floor
G 
where the cream leaked out of the churn.
C 
Everybody's talking about the news
that's a -going around.
Charlie Finch's daughter got in trouble
Dm 
and she had to leave town
G 
Mama's washing dishes
and she's got a pair of britches to mend
Wish that I could watch her do it
C 
but you can't go back again
F 
Oh, the kindling's all cut,
and it's stacked,
Am 
they're waiting to burn
D 
There's a ring on the floor
G 
where the cream leaked out of the churn
C 
Everybody's talking about the news,
Am 
C 
that's it going around
Charlie Finch's daughter got in trouble
Dm 
and she had to leave town
G 
Mama's washing dishes
and she's got a pair of bridges to mend
Wish that I could watch her do it
C 
but you can't go back again
G 
Oh, I wish that I could watch her,
but you can't go back again.
C 