C5 
Play, guitar play.... Take me back.... to yes-terday... 
                                       G5         G5 
let me see... cotton growin'... in the fields.... 
       C5 
Let me hear... my momma callin'... "Look a yon-der y'all who's comin'! 
                           G5      F5                         C5 
Down the road, he's comin' home!".... but they know i never will. 
G5                            F5             C5 
I left them livin' with that awful thang i done.... 
G5                         F5                     G5      G5 
I didn't tell them I just packed my clothes and run.... 
C5 
Play... Guitar play... Help me through... another day. 
                                           G5     G5 
Help me make... another dollar... before I go....... 
       C5 
We got time... for one more song... then we'll have... to move along... 
                        G5       F5                       C5 
another town... another crowd...  Lord I wonder if they know... 
G5                         F5           C5 
Can they read between the lines in my songs... 
G5                 F5                   G5       G5 
as i sing about a good boy, that went wrong... 
F5                      C5 
Guitar we got years to kill... 
F5                         C5 
Got to climb that distant hill... 
F5                         C5 
I wonder if they think of me............ 
 
Guitar play....