Standard (EADGBE)

x2

Driving to a baseball game, on a Friday afternoon

Hotter than Hell in Atlanta, Georgia

Guess it's been 15 years since I came through here

Probably should have called to warn you

 But I'm stopping by, I'm stopping by, Daddy

C#m break 1 measure

How did your life turned out? Do you ever think about

teenage girl in Chattannoga

Ever tell your folks the truth?,that might been the last of you

It would have been a shame we hardly knew you

 Now I'm stopping by, I'm stopping by, Daddy

C#m break 1 measure

Think the best of me is still standing in the doorway

Counting cars and counting days and counting years

I could say you made me go through life the hard way

 It might have been worse if you were here

Looking through a picture book, this one I think my mama took

You couldn't have been much over 20

You're shirtless in your cut off jeans and hand a lollypop to me

Probably asked where you got the money

Picture on another page, I recognize my eyes have aged

I'd been alone for quite a while then

Trying to get a match to burn, waiting on a latch to turn

I still have difficulty smiling

 But I'm stopping by, I'm stopping by, Daddy

C#m break 1 measure

Think the best of me is still standing in the doorway

Whatever's left is headed south on 85

Passing families on vacation headed your way

 They look so happy and alive, that I'm stopping by, Daddy

Outro

4 bars of riffing on C#m I think