Chords for The Dillards - The Old Home Place

_ _ _ Now this [G] song has been recorded by several people and at the time I don't think Mitch or Dean or any of us ever knew that it would [G#] become the song that it has been.
When you write a [B] song and everybody thinks it's somebody else and you say, boy I'd like to know who wrote that, [A#] when you do it, then you know maybe the song's done something.
But we did this years ago [G#] when we went [Dm] to California, _ [Em] looked at where we were and [F] looked at what we left at home down in the Ozarks.
Mitch and Dean looked up from out over the window of [A#] the 58 Chevy [E] station wagon _ and wrote this song called The Old [D#] Home Place.
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It's been ten long years since I left my home In the hollow where I was born
_ _ [B] Where the cool fall nights made the wood smoke rise And the fox [C#] when I blew [B] his horn
I fell in [D#] love with [E] a girl [B] in the town I thought that she [F#] would be true
_ [B] I went away [C#] to _ _ [B] Charlottesville To [F#] work in a [B] sawmill too _ _
[F#] What have they done with the old home place?
[C#] Why did they tear [F#] it down?
_ [B] And why [D#] did I leave the plowing people And look [F#] for a job [B] in the town? _ _
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A girl ran [F#] off with [B] somebody else The _ taverns took my [F#] pay
_ [B] And now I stand where the old homes stood Before they [C#] took it away _ _
Now the keys fly south and the windows pull As I stand here and [F#] hang my head
[B] _ I've lost my love, [C#] I've lost [B] my heart And now [F#] I wish that [B] I were dead _ _
[F#] What have they [B] done with the old home place?
_ [C#] Why did they tear [F#] it _ down?
[C#] And why did [D#] I [G#] leave the [B] plowing people And look for a job in the town? _ _
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_ [G] _ [F#m] What have they done [B] with the old home place?
_ [C#] Why did they [F#] tear it down?
_ [B] And [D#] why did I [E] leave the [B] plowing people And look [F#] for a job in the town? _
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