Standard (EADGBE)

Hold back the rushing minutes

Make the wind lie still

Don't let the moonlight shine across the lonely hill

 Dry all the raindrops hold back the sun

My world has ended my baby's gone

 The milkman whistles sofltly as he comes up to my door

 And the mailman bring the letters by just like he did before

They seem so busy all day long as if there's nothing wrong

 Don't they the know the world has ended my baby's gone

Hold back the rushing minutes

Make the wind lie still

Don't let the moonlight shine across the lonely hill

 Dry all the raindrops hold back the sun

My world has ended my baby's gone

Solo

 I wake up sometimes in the night

 And realize you're gone

 And then I toss upon my bed

 And wait for day to come

I tried to tell my lonely heart

 It must go on alone

 But it cries the world has ended my baby's gone

Hold back the rushing minutes

Make the wind lie still

Don't let the moonlight shine across the lonely hill

 Dry all the raindrops hold back the sun

My world has ended my baby's gone

My world has ended my baby's gone

From The Bakersfield Bound CD 1996 Sugar Hill Records