Standard (EADGBE)

 Worries on my mind, afraid of what I'll find

Will my family be gone? I'm afraid to go home

 Back to Tennessee, afraid of what I'll see

Pattern 2:

  As I walk down this dusty road, got a heart with a heavy load

 Ain't one thing that's the same, so much sorrow and pain

  Headin' home in a single file, every inch is a quarter mile

 Ain't heard nobody sing, ain't seen one livin' thing

(in pattern 1):

Someone's waitin' for me, honey sweet as candy

Wanna hold her tight; Lord, make her be all right

Maybe 'round on next bend, all the ashes of land

Valleys will be green instead of what I've seen

(in pattern 2):

I'm afraid for the scrubby pine, for the sweet honeysuckle vine

I'm afraid for my home, for the fields that I roamed

Kick along down a homeward road, and your heart's gotta take the load

I'm afraid to go home, I'm afraid to go home

 Sherman's been in my town, burned it all to the ground

 Now there's not a tree 'tween Memphis and the Sea