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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 13:04:46 -0400
From: Mark and Allison Albert 
Subject: m/monroe_bill/highway_of_sorrow.crd

From: Mark Albert 

HIGHWAY OF SORROW (Bill Monore, Pete Pyle)
from "True Life Blues, The Songs Of Bill Monroe" (Sugar Hill, SHCD-2209)

CAPO 4

   G (320003@1)                              C (x32010@1)                  GI (320003@1)once had a darling, was kind, true and sweet.
G (320003@1)                                                       DLife (xx0232@1)was so bright and gay, everything to please.
   G (320003@1)                        C (x32010@1)               GI (320003@1)fell for another, who led my life astray.
               G (320003@1)                  D (xx0232@1)               GAnd (320003@1)now I live in sorrow, ?till my dying day

Chorus:
            G (320003@1)                             C (x32010@1)            GDown (320003@1)a Highway of Sorrow, I?m traveling along.
       G (320003@1)                                                     DI?ve (xx0232@1)lost all my true friends, I?ve lost a happy home.
       G (320003@1)                                 C (x32010@1)                 GI?m (320003@1)headed for destruction, I?m on the wrong track.
             G (320003@1)                                   D (xx0232@1)            GDown (320003@1)a Highway of Sorrow, there?s no turning back.

I went back to my darling, and I got down on my knees.
I begged here with tears and eyes, to give my poor heart ease.
But she was hurt so deeply, she could not forgive.
Now I live in sorrow, as long as I live

(Chorus)