Standard (EADGBE)

Don't stop even for the right thing does it matter what I say?

My whole world was by that river flowin' north to meet the sea each day

 I don't want to move away

You look at me and ya say "what's wrong boy?" What else do you want me to say?

I don't want to leave tomorrow been and gone but I belong here now

 Your big world can wait another day

Chorus

Brighter days where did they go?

Brighter days where did they go?

Brighter days where did they go?

Brighter days where did they go?

I am hopeful for where I'm goin'

but I belong in the South That was where I's born a po' boy

 livin' life like there's no end in sight Even so I've done without

Brighter days where did they go? Play 4x Then

Boy you about to hit the bottom

Brighter days where did they go?

Brighter days where did they go?

Boy you about to hit the bottom

Brighter days where did they go?

Brighter days where did they go?

 I'll be alone I feel I'm movin' where To a land you never saw

 and I see you 'bout to hit the bottom Lord help me move away

 to a land you never saw and I've seen

Brighter days where did they go?

Brighter days where did they go?

Brighter days where did they go?

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