Chords for Wish I Hadn't Stayed Away So Long Written And Performed By Guy Davis

_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
_ _ [F] This next song is officially my last.
[D#] I've decided to try to be running up and [G] off stage and hope I'm going to stay on for a [F] while.
[G] After I do it, I'm going to stick around and do another one.
[F] It's going to be all fun.
It was a lot. _
Well, I'm taking care of that. _ _ _ _ _
[D] Song is [F#m] called _ _ [G] _ [A] _
I Wish I Hadn't [D] Stayed Away So Long.
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[E] It's about [Dm] being [F] away out on the road when _ you need it at home.
_ [N] It's a line in the song.
Bell rang on the midnight train carrying the hobos home.
I guess those hobos mean somewhere just to all of us.
_ _ _ I identify with it because I'm always on some train or in some car or on some plane or walking or the bus.
Guitars in hand, _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] Devin Wells, [F#] hobos.
[F#m] I'd [D] like [Gm] you to join me [F#] in the singing of the chorus.
When it comes, I'll let you know.
[G] Please listen.
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_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [G] _
[F#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _
_ _ I [F#m] wish I [Em] hadn't [G] stayed away [D] so long.
_ [Bm] I wish I [G] hadn't stayed away [A] so long.
_ [Bm] Bell [A] rang on the midnight [Em] train carrying [F#m] the hobos home.
_ [Bm] I wish I hadn't stayed [D] away so long.
_ _ [F#m] My mother died when [G] I was [A] on the road.
_ [Bm] My mother died when [G] I was [E] on the road.
_ Bell rang on the midnight train [G] carrying the [F#m] hobos home.
My [E] mother died when [A] I was on the [D] road.
I wish I hadn't stayed away so long.
Say it with me.
Well, I wish [F#m] I hadn't [Em] stayed away so [D] long.
_ [Bm] I wish I [G] hadn't stayed away [E] so long.
Bell rang on the midnight train.
Bell rang on the midnight [Em] train carrying the [F#m] hobos home.
_ [Bm] I wish I [Em] hadn't stayed away [D] so long.
_ I [F#m] got home [Em] too [G] late to say [D] goodbye.
_ [Bm] I got [G] home too late to say [A] goodbye.
_ _ [B] Bell [A] rang on the midnight [Em] train [F#m] carrying the hobos home.
_ _ [Bm] I got home too [D] late to say goodbye.
I wish I hadn't stayed away so long.
Well, I wish [F#m] I [Em] hadn't stayed away [D] so long.
_ [Bm] I wish I [G] hadn't stayed away [E] so long.
Bell rang on the midnight train.
Bell [F#] rang on the midnight train carrying the hobos [F#m] home.
_ [Bm] I wish I hadn't stayed away [D] so long. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] I [D] can't count the times [G] I've stolen away and cried. _
[Bm] I can't count the times [G] I've stolen away [A] and cried.
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Bell rang [A] on the midnight [G] train carrying the hobos [F#m] home.
I _ [Bm] can't count the [B] times I've stolen away and [D] cried.
Wish I hadn't stayed away so long.
Well, I [F#m] wish I hadn't [G] stayed [D] away so long.
_ [Bm] I wish I [G] hadn't stayed [E] away so long.
Bell rang.
Bell _ [B] rang on [A] the midnight train carrying the [F#m] hobos home.
_ [Bm] And I wish I [Em] hadn't [B] stayed away so [Bm] long.
Last time, all we got to do is hold on.
Well, I wish I hadn't stayed away so long.
I _ _ _ wish I hadn't [G] stayed away [A] so long.
_ _ [Bm] Bell rang [F#] on the midnight train [G] carrying the [F#m] hobos home. _
_ [Bm] I wish I hadn't [E] stayed away [D] so long.
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