Hello Old Man

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Hello old man, have you room for a 
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wanderer
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Running from his checkered past
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No I'm not your favorite son
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I never even tied for last


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Do you still cuss the dirt and 
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pray for rain
C        G              D        
Stubborn as the sun and twice as 
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vain
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Think about all you have done
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Before you tell me you ain't 
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wandered none


Chorus:

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Now your wayward son has come back 
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home
           Em                   C 
What'd you think about me while I 
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was gone
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Old man when I was on your knee
C                             D  
Didn't you think I'd turn out to 
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be like me


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Hello old man, the world is strange
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Cuts you up and mends you back again
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You got your scars in a forgotten 
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war
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Mine I got on bar room floors


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Well you told me tales when I was
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 a child
C         G                  D  
Lord they made me wonder and 
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made me wild
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I guess I had to be like you
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There weren't no war but I made do


Chorus:

         Em              C         
Now your wayward son has come back 
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home
           Em                   C 
What'd you think about me while I 
    D
was gone
    Em             C       G
Old man when I was on your knee
C                             D  
Didn't you think I'd turn out to 
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be like me


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Hello old man life rolls along
C        G              D       
I'm just trying to reap what you
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 have sown
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You never wished me well on the 
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night I left
C         G        D       G
But in my eyes you saw yourself


Chorus:

         Em              C         
Now your wayward son has come back 
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home
           Em                   C 
What'd you think about me while I 
    D
was gone
    Em             C       G
Old man when I was on your knee
C                             D  
Didn't you think I'd turn out to 
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be like me

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you should have known I'd turn out 
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to be like you