Intro: G C G C
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Mama's got her apron on standin in the kitchen
C
cookin up my favorite dish, whatever she is fixin
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Daddy's in a picture in a frame that's always sittin by the phone
G
Dafodils are poppin up out behind the clothesline
C
Underneath that tree I planted when I was just a boy of 9
A C
Man I never can believe just how much its grown when I go
Chorus
G C
Home, back home
F C
To the gentle place that held me close, as I became a man
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And the streets are all familiar and an old friend shakes my hand, And I feel
G C
Fine, so fine
F C
Yeah knowing that this road I'm wandering on
F D G
From time to time always leads me home.
G
Brother he'll be waitin with the latest from the grapevine sayin
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Man you won't believe them stories bout those crazy friends of mine
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And all them little scandals, that a small town can't seem to leave alone
G
Later on we'll sit around bellies tight from supper
C
Tellin all them stories that we just can't get enough of
A C
And somewhere in an honest laugh, it'll finally hit me that I'm...
Chorus:
G C
Home, back home
F C
Where the memories all have gathered up and slowly turned to gold
F G C D
And I've carried them along with me where ever I may go,And I feel
G C
Fine, so fine
F C
Yeah knowing that this road I'm wandering on
F D G
From time to time always leads me home.
Instrumental
G C F G
Am E
And I go and put some flowers down at daddy's stone
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And I see that empty space beside him, it always makes me glad
That I came
Chorus:
G C
Home, back home
F C
Where the Bible is the Bible and the angels get their wings
F G C D
And the circle is unbroken, when I hear them church bells ring and I feel
G C
Fine, you know I feel so fine
F C
Yeah knowing that this road I'm wandering on
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From time to time unwinds, across the rivers through the pines
G
And leads me home.