E5                                    A5
This old hound is St. Mary?s bound
          B5                                                              E5
And this old hound has still got a ways to go
                                                                      A5
Spend the first half of your just trying to run away
                        B5                                                        E5
Spend the second half just trying to get back home

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                                     A5 
To the Cumberland Sound
             B5                                                         E5
Someday I?ll cross that river and settle down
     C#5                               A5           B5                 E5               F#5
Like voices from the timber, I can?t get it out of my head
                A5              
It?s all I hear

E5 A5 B5 E5

E5                                                        A5
Cotton ain?t the king no more, Kudzu is
             B5                                                                      E5
It?s swallowing up the land and choking off the life
                                                                A5
Inch by inch it pushed me to the precipice
     B5                                                                           E5
Gonna wade right in that water and float on down

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  E5                                                  A5
This old hound is St. Mary?s bound
          E5                                                                     E5
And this old hound ain?t nowhere near there yet
                                                                              A5
But the ground been frozen since the new year
          B5                                                                  E5
And the cold dry air lies hard against my veins

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