Chords for Blue Highway ~ He Walked All The Way Home

[F] This is a great song.
It's [N] one called he walked all the way home
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_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] in the grim final hour
_ _ [C] of the war between the states
_ [D] He'd had enough dying [Gm] _ [Bb] all the grief that he could take
_ from [F] the _ Appomattox courthouse
_ [C] Where the deed was [Dm] sadly done
[C] _ [Bb] There was no place left for him to go [C] but home _
_ _ _ He [F] walked all the way home
_ _ [Bb] South Hampton [F] County
_ _ Carry [C] _
[Dm] all he owned
_ [C] _ [Bb] Try to _ [C] forget
_ [F] Bearing sadness like a man
[C] _ _ [Dm] Oh
The [C] friends he'd [Bb] lost in vain
He [F] walked all the way [C] home
_ [F] _ [C] To start his life [F] again
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [C]
In [Bb] _ _ _ [E] _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] the end he knew the reason
_ [C] But so many had been lost
_ [Dm] the gears to come the fallen
[C] _ [Bb] Would sleep beneath the cross
_ What [F] he held in angry silence
_ [C] Time could never [Dm] burrow away
_ [C] [Bb] It was just the saddest price he'd ever pay
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He _ _ _ [F] walked all the way home
_ _ [Bb] _ South [F] Hampton County
_ _ _ Carry all he owned
_ [C] _ [Bb] Try to _ forget
_ [C] _ [F] Wearing sadness like a man
[Am] _ _ [F] For the friends [C] he'd lost in [Bb] vain.
He [F] walked all the way [C] home
[F] To [C] _ start his [F] life _ again _ _ _
[G] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ [C] _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] When _ _ _ _ _
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[F] he stopped to take some water _ _
[C] Had a little _ roadside place _
_ [Dm] _ pretty southern widow _
[C] [Bb] Sadly looked into his face _
As they [F] talked to while his blue eyes _
[C] Seemed to ease her [D] broken heart
[C] _
_ [Bb] One day he [Gm] came back and took her [C] home
_ [Gm] _ [C] _ _
He [F] walked all the way home
[C] _
[F] _ [Bb] _ South [F] Hampton County _
_ _ Carry all he owned
[C] _ [Bb] Try to [C] forget _
_ [F] Wearing sadness like a [C] man
For [Dm] the friends [C] he'd lost [Bb] in vain.
He [F] walked all the way home _
_ [C] To start his life [F] again
_ _ He _ walked all the way home _ _ [C] to start his life [F] _ again
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_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Hey folks _ _ _
great song
_ _ _ Fellas sang that for you all the way from Abingdon, Virginia one of the finest singers and songwriters
You know bluegrass music make you welcome.
Mr.
Wayne Taylor right there _ _ _