Standard (EADGBE)

I love crossing the Mississippi river it runs so wide and deep

 The sun winks down between the spans at me

Tugboat sings down low beneath the pop of the pavement breaks

 Above that old West Memphis reverie

 And I can see me flying down i40, as the camera pulls away

 And the music swells with possibilities

 And maybe I'm just hoping, as i wake up from my dreams

 Or maybe I just watch too much TV

 And I'm going to Colorado, living out of my car

 I went off to find myself underneath the western stars

 I ain't going back to Nashville all alone where no one cares,

 And I'm a long ways home from anywhere

Steamers puffing pumping money

This ain't the life for me

I'll never make another day's living with my hands

maybe those big old trucks rolling by

Will go back to Tennessee

Tell my daddy that I done the best I can

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And I'm going to Colorado, living out of my car

I went off to find myself and I found myself in a bar,

I ain't going back to Nashville all alone where no one cares,

And I'm a long ways off from anywhere

Some days I drink whiskey and some days I get stoned

And I tell my lies to guys down on the street

And some days I start driving till I just can't drive no more

Then I stop and let some guy tell lies to me

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