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[Verse 1]
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Back home, a fire they keep
             E         Bm
Out here the cold wind blows
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I did not want to leave
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I wonder if she knows
   E                    G
The first word she said, to me was goodbye

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[Verse 2]
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In the west the sky grows darker
              E        Bm
Back east the sun will rise
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Back home my wife and daughter
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Don't know where I am tonight
   E                 G
But soon I will find, a road that leads home

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[Chorus 1]
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A man could die out here, they'd never know
                                       A
No longer will I walk among the ghosts
     Bm                        A
Even though I left so long ago
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I got someone waiting back at home
E
We got married down in Texas, Texas
G
A little daughter of our own

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[Verse 3]
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She doesn't care about
                   E            Bm
The cold wind that carried this song
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All that she knows right now
Bm           D
Is that her father's still gone
   E                       G
The first word she learned, to say was to say goodbye

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[Chorus 2]
 G
A man could die out here, they'd never know
                                       A
No longer will I walk among the ghosts
     Bm                        A
Even though I left so long ago
  Bm
I got someone waiting back at home
E
We got married down in Texas, Texas
G
A little daughter of our own

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[Instrumental]
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[Chorus 3]
 G
A man could die out here, they'd never know
                                       A
No longer will I walk among the ghosts
     Bm                        A
Even though I left so long ago
  Bm
I got someone waiting back at home
E
We got married down in Texas, Texas
G
A little daughter of our own

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[Outro]
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Life out here is getting reckless, reckless
A
Better find my way back home
E
We got married down in Texas, Texas
G
Our little girl will soon be grown
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I can't stay, I'm getting restless, restless
A                              G
You're gonna have to let me go