C                                    
Eight more miles - and I'll be home
             F                       
Back in your grace - where I belong
            C                         
Tonight I'm sleepin' - in my own bed
        G7                                            
With my blue tick feather pillow underneath my head
           C                       
I feel the wheels - on sixty-five
             F                       
I don't know when - I felt so alive
           C                  G7      
Eight more miles - eight more miles
            C     
And I'll be home


[Verse 2]

Since I've been gone - everything's changed
                 F                       
There's been two weeks - of steady rain
             C                         
The dogwoods bloomed - pink and white
         G7                                                  
And that damp smell of new cut grass is everywhere tonight
            C                     
Sweet sunny south - I never knew
         F                        
Just how much - I could miss you
           C                  G7      
Eight more miles - eight more miles
            C     
And I'll be home


[Instrumental break]  
C F C G7 C F C G7 C


[Verse 3]

I crossed the Rockies - on a silver train
                 F                         
I walked through Bergen - in pouring rain
              C                           
I've met with strangers - I came to love
         G7                                                   
And I've gotten drunk with Chieftains in a Dublin hotel pub
             C                      
And I dearly love - these memories
         F                          
All that matters - right now to me
              C                  G7      
Is eight more miles - eight more miles
            C     
And I'll be home


[Tag]
                              G7                  C     
Eight more miles - eight more miles - and I'll be home