Chords for Paul Thorn : A Long Way From Tupelo

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On a hot [B] Sunday evening [C#m] I was driving [E] in the country [G#] when I felt my [B] left [C#m] front tire blow.
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In the trunk I had a spare [C#] but the deck [B] wasn't there [G#] on a desolate [G#m] gravel [C#] _ [B] road.
_ [G#] Just [B] across the street was a tin roof shack [G#] and a girl [B] selling peas [C#] on the porch.
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When [G#] she ran out [B] to meet me [C#] in a white cotton [G#m] bed all I could say [B] was pray [C#] to God.
[G#m] Yeah, I [G#] was a long [B] way [C#] from Tupelo, [B] _
[G#] a long [B] way from [C#] Tupelo.
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Yeah, I was stranded in a place [C#] nobody [B]
knows.
I [G#] was a long [B] way [C#] from [G#m] Tupelo.
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_ [G#m] I'm not home [C#] and I don't have [G#m] a phone but if there's anything I can [C#] do
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[G#] I'd be happy [F#] to pour [C#] you some cold iced [F#] tea [G#] because I think [B] you're the kind [C#] of juice.
[G#] _ We [B] went inside, [C#] sat down [B] on the couch and that girl started about [C#] me
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until I got her in the garden [C#] of Eden.
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[G#] She showed [B] me that apple [C#] and that galoree.
[B] I [G#] was a long [B] way [C#] from Tupelo, [B] _
[G#] a long [B] way from [C#] Tupelo.
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Yeah, I was stranded in a place [C#] nobody [B] knows.
I [G#] was a [B] long way [C#] from [B] Tupelo.
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Well above her shoulder saw me there.
She said, what in the world going [C#] on?
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She hinted, mama don't worry [C#] he's a real nice [G#m]
man who's broke down and he's got a way [C#] _ [G#m] home.
[G#] Daddy you came [B] here right.
[C#] I gave him [B] twenty dollars for the trouble and the tank [C#] of gas.
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He [G#] was dead [B] I'll [C#] always remember [B] him.
[G#] But if my [B] wife ever [C#] asked I'd say
[B] I [G#] was a long [B] way [C#] from Tupelo, [B] _
[G#] a long [B] way from [C#] Tupelo.
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Yeah, I was stranded in a place [C#] nobody [B] knows.
I [G#] was a [B] long way [C#] from Tupelo.
[B] Yeah, I [G#] was a long [B] way [C#] from Tupelo, [B] _
[G#] a long [B] way from [C#] Tupelo.
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Yeah, [G#] I was stranded [B] in a place [C#] nobody [B] knows.
I [G#] was a long [B] way [C#] from Tupelo.
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