Capo 3 
 
       G5                            C5 
Well I hide behind my guitar like a sparrow in the night 
G5                        D5 
Hopin&#039; I might fly away anew 
              G5                                   C5  
Cause they&#039;ll love you when you&#039;re wrong and then leave you when you&#039;re right 
G5                             D5 
Tell me baby, what&#039;s a boy to do 
       G5                           C5 
Well I came to town a stranger not knowin&#039; how to act 
G5                                 D5  
Figured I&#039;d hang out and just get found 
G5                              C5 
Made me some new friends, they climbed way on up my back 
     G5                              D5 
Been gone so long they ain&#039;t comin&#039; down 
        C5 
You can kiss the sky good morning 
        G5 
You can say your prayers at night 
G5                               C5 
Hide your soul way down in your shoes 
             C5  
But it&#039;s the same old scene 
         G5        G5  E5 
Borrowed love and faded dreams 
        C5         D5                        G5  
And you just can&#039;t run from those Arkansas blues  
  
Well time is playin&#039; tricks on me, makes me think I&#039;m movin&#039; fast  
I don&#039;t think I&#039;m movin at all  
And every stranger&#039;s face I see reminds me of the past  
Come on big and leave you feelin&#039; small 
So I took to drinkin&#039; liquor on the other side of town 
Way up in those woods, beside the moon 
Where every graceful dream I had got lost without a sound 
Tell you what, I can&#039;t leave this place too soon 
  
Chorus 2: 
And it don&#039;t take no rhyme or reason 
It don&#039;t make no sense at all 
Just one of those things that you don&#039;t choose 
It&#039;s the same old scene 
Broken hearts and busted strings 
And you just can&#039;t run from those Arkansas blues 
 
  
Well everybody&#039;s askin&#039; questions &#039;out whose side you&#039;re on 
I don&#039;t see how it matters much to me 
And all these midnight celebrations that are ended by the dawn 
Leave you feelin&#039; low as you can be 
So I&#039;m leavin&#039; town this morning, gonna lighten up my load 
See if I can&#039;t lose what I have found 
And it&#039;s one drink for the memories and one kiss for the road 
Aw, look out, I believe I&#039;m Texas bound 
 
Chorus 3:  
California, Oklahoma 
Arizona, Tennessee 
I&#039;ve been all around this land to pay my dues 
High, low and right behind me 
Wherever I go they find me 
And I just can&#039;t run from those Arkansas blues