Standard (EADGBE)

 I will come back for my things

 Then I'll go the way I came

 back down your crooked steps two at a time

And to the morning sun

 I will call as I run

 As if it waited for me now to shine

 This is my good fortune now at last

This is all I never knew to ask of you

 To leave me with no love I might return.

I know where I could go

 And work awhile, you never know

 the change might be enough to set me free

I could leave tonight

 And discover I was right

 But now freer than I ever chose to be

This is my good fortune now at last

this is all I never knew to ask of you

 To leave me with no love I might return

Solo

I climb up on the side

 Of the engine where I ride

 It's warmer than all that I leave behind

I shake my collar free

 And hold myself against my knee

 And I pray tonight's the peaceful, dreamless kind.

This is my good fortune now at last

This is all I never knew to ask of you

 To leave me with no love I might return

This is my good fortune

>From Joe Henry "Short Man's Room"

Mammoth Records 1992