Chords for Charley Pride - In The Middle of Nowhere

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[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Fate had meant for me [A] one last time to see my [E] hometown again _
_ _ [C#m] [B] Once again, go there see the places where [E] as a child I'd been _
_ As I journeyed now [A] it was so far out.
[E] It was almost in
_ [A] in [E] the middle _ [B] in the middle of [E] nowhere _ _ _ _
_ _ Sadness talk with me [A] as I walk the streets [E] of my memory _
_ Streets [B] that seem somehow so much smaller now [E] and they used to be
_ _ Talked of other days [A] when this tiny place [E] had been home to me _
_ [A] in [E] the middle _ [B] in the middle of [E] nowhere _ _ _ _
_ People stared at me in silence as [A] I walked [E] [A] around _
_ Time [E] had passed till I was just a stranger [B] there _ _
Folks _ [E] had changed so much, but no one [A] even knew me now _
_ [F#] In [E] the middle _ [B] in the middle of [E] nowhere _ _ _ _
I
Went once again [A] to the schoolyard
[E] Where I used to play _
Past [B] the church of mom and daddy where [E] they used to pray _
Down the dusty road to [A] the churchyard [E] where they both now lay _
_ [A] in [E] the middle in [B] the middle of
[E] _ _ Nowhere _
_ As I place my blue forget me not [A] there on the ground _
_ One [E] last time I kneeled by mom and dad [B] in prayer _
Then I [E] said goodbye _ forever to that [A] little town _
_ In [E] the middle
In [B] the middle
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [F#m] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _