G                 D             G                 D
Well now stage right enter Jimmy, just a counterfeit James Dean
       G              D               A
with a pocket full of delta blues and cheap amphetamine
    G              D                G          D
Her feet up on the dashboard like a burned out Betty Paige
       G                D         A
Aw she might have been pretty if she was half her age
      G                D               G                D
But together they were something, just closing down the bars
       G              D         A               D
Headed down from Okie City in a slightly stolen car

[Verse]
    G                  D            G                D
The folks were decent people, they didn't like their kind
         G                  D                A
When the car pulled in the driveway the were staring through the blinds
    G                D             G          D
The preacher in the kitchen, he's eatin' apple pie
   G               D           A
Oh momma's in the bedroom she couldn't help but cry
        G              D            G                  D
Oh and daddy looked so natural like he'd just gone to sleep
         G                       D         A                 D
And the preacher looked through Jimmy and prayed his soul to keep

[Chorus]
     G      D     A      D
It's coming home, coming home
      G              D                  A
Ain't nothing like a family to make you feel so damned alone
    G                 D                  A           D
You should've brought flowers, should've got daddy's gun
G           D              A        G     D
Aint nobody waiting on the prodigal son

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          G               D              G              D
Well they pulled out into traffic, moved in behind the hearse
         G           D                A
And that awful empty feeling, well it went from bad to worse
    G                  D                  G              D
The preacher read some scripture and they put him in the ground
        G         D             A
Aw then everybody loaded up and headed back to town
    G             D                G            D
But Jimmy got his whiskey out once everyone was gone
   G                      D         A                   D
He felt he should've said something staring down at the stone

[Chorus]
     G      D     A      D
It's coming home, coming home
      G              D                  A
Ain't nothing like a family to make you feel so damned alone
    G                 D                  A           D
You should've brought flowers, should've got daddy's gun
G           D               A        G     D
Ain't nobody waiting on the prodigal son

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         G              D              G                  D
Well the menfolk folded tables and the ladies cleaned the plates
        G             D             A
And the cousins asked about the car locked behind the gate
               G        D          G                 D
Jimmy knew his daddy's .38, was in that trunk buried deep
             G        D                       A
And it would find its rightful owner once his momma was asleep.
     G              D      G                 D
And Jimmy looked at momma, momma just looked down
         G               D               A                 D
She said why's it take a funeral, boy to bring you back to town