Intro and the average way they play during the song: 
 
             D                  
       
      e -------0h2-----2h3---3---------0h2-----2h3---3-------- 
      B -----3-------3---------------3-------3---------------- 
      G ---2-------2-------2-------2-------2-------2---2------ 
      D -0-----------------------0---------------------------- 
      A ------------------------------------------------------ 
      E ------------------------------------------------------ 
 
about the same thing for the A chord. 
 
Verse 1: 
        D 
      I remember waking in the morning 
                                        A 
      To the sound of the rooster's crow 
     
      Mamma cooking in the kitchen 
                                 D 
      Arthur Godfrey on the radio 
 
Verse 2: 
        D  
      Me and Dad were just like strangers 
                                A 
      We never did see eye to eye 
                 
      Came to blows one Sunday morning 
                                            D  F  C/G  D 
      So i packed my bags and i said goodbye 
 
Chorus: 
         /                                        Em   
      When you leave that way you can never go back 
      A                                  D   
      A train won't run on a torn up track 
                                     G  D     Em 
      Sometimes i wish i'd never roamed,oh no 
      A                                                  D    
      'cause when you leave that way you can never go home 
 
Verse 3: 
         D  
      Then i met a girl in Knoxville 
                               A 
      Oh,we set our wedding day 
 
      I left her standing at the alter 
                            D  
      With a baby on the way 
 
Chorus. 
 
Bridge: 
         G                A              D   
      Lord i'd love to see my mom and daddy 
              G               A                Bm   
      And what i'd give to hold that boy of mine 
             G               A                  D 
      I'd get down on my knees and i say i'm sorry 
          E                               A                       
      If i could only go back one more time 
 
Verse 4: 
         D 
      But i killed a man in Houston 
                                    A 
      When he caught me with his wife 
                
      And i told the preacher man to leave me alone 
                                 D 
      When he came to read my rights 
 
Chorus bis: 
         /                                                      Em   
      He said son,when you leave this way you can never come back 
      A                                  D       
      A soul won't roll on a torn up track 
                                     G   D Em 
      All through eternity you'll roam alone 
      A                                                    D  
      'cause when you leave this way you can never come home 
 

                                     G   D Em    
      All through eternity you'll roam alone 
      A                                                    Bm   
      'cause when you leave this way you can never come home 
 
Thanks to David M. Potter (dmp12@cornell.edu) for the lyrics. 
Perret Charles-Amir : perret@math.univ-mlv.fr