Chords for Maggie's Dream

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Maggie's up each morning [G] at 4 a.m.
[D] By 5 behind the counter [G] at the diner.
[D] Her trucker friends out on the road
[G] Will soon be stopping in
[C] As the lights go [G] on at Café [A] Carolina.
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] Maggie's been a waitress here
[G] Most of her life.
_ [D] 30 years of coffee cups [G] and sulfine.
[D] The mountains around Asheville
[G] She's never seen the other side.
_ [C] Closer now [G] to 50 [A] than to [D] 40.
_ _ [G] Maggie's never had a love.
[D] She says she's never had [Em] enough time
[A] To let a man [D] into her life.
[G] Oh, but Maggie has a dream
[D] She's had since she was 17
[Em] To find [A] a husband [D] and be a wife.
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_ _ _ [D] Maggie knows the truckers
[G] Most by first name
[D] What they'll have to say
And what [G] they'll order.
And [D] they take her in their stories
[G] To places far away
And [C] then leave her with [G] the dishes
Dreams [A] and [D] quarters.
_ _ [G] Maggie's never had a love.
[D] She says she's never had enough [Em] time
[A] To let a man [D] into her life.
Oh, [G] but Maggie has a dream
[D] She's had since she was 17
[Em] To find [A] a husband [D] and be a wife.
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And [Am] she relies upon the jukebox
On the lonely afternoons
When [G] the business starts to slow down
She plays the saddest tune
And she [C] stares off down [G] the highway
And [C] she wonders where [G] it goes
With [Em] nobody to go home to
And [G] it's almost time [A] to close.
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