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I left my Adirondack home about a year ago
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I met up with bad company, the kind you shouldn’t know
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I learned to drink and gamble, turned out to be a bum
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Now I’m tired of roamin’ around and I’m gonna be back home

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There’s a path that leads back to my Adirondack home
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I’m goin’ back tonight, and I never more will roam
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I can see my mother there, for her boy she says a prayer
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And she waits in her arm chair in my Adirondack home

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Now dad has left this cruel world for heaven up above
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Leaving mother all alone with thon and me to love
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But I left my little home, found nothin’ short of pain
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I know that I was wrong and I’m goin’ back again

E                                    A          E
There’s a path that leads back to my Adirondack home
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I’m goin’ back tonight, and I never more will roam
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I can see my mother there, for her boy she says a prayer
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And she waits in her arm chair in my Adirondack home

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Now that you heard my story, don’t ever leave your home
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When your mother needs you so don’t you ever start to roam
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Don’t disappoint your mother for someday she’ll be gone
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Whenever you’re away, don’t forget this little song

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There’s a path that leads back to my Adirondack home
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I’m goin’ back tonight, and I never more will roam
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I can see my mother there, for her boy she says a prayer
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And she waits in her arm chair in my Adirondack home