C5                C5    C5  C5 
You've long been on the open road 
            F5              C5     C5 
You've been sleepin in the rain 
         C5     C5       C5   C5 
From the dirty words and muddy cells 
     F5                      G5 
Your clothes are soiled and stained. 
    C5         C5       C5   C5 
But the dirty words and muddy cells 
     F5              G5 
Will soon be hid in shame 
C5                F5        C5 
So only stop to  rest yourself 
     F5             G5 
Till you'll go off again. 
   C5             F5 
So take off your thirsty boots 
    C5        F5  
And stay for awhile 
     C5        C5     C5 
Your feet are hot and weary 
D5           G5 
From a dusty mile 
    C5           F5 
And maybe I can make you laugh 
C5           F5  
Maybe I can try 
         C5       C5     C5 
I'm just lookin' for the evening 
        D5      G5       C5 
And the morning in your eyes. 
C5           C5    C5      C5                  
But tell me of the ones you saw 
   F5                C5    C5 
As far as you could see 
   C5             C5  C5      C5 
Across the plain from field to town 
   F5             G5 
A-marching to be free 
    C5      C5    C5    C5 
And of the rusted prison gates 
     F5            G5 
That tumbled by degree 
     C5                 F5      C5 
Like laughing children one by one 
     F5                   G5 
They looked like you and me 
   C5             F5 
So take off your thirsty boots 
    C5        F5  
And stay for awhile 
     C5        C5     C5 
Your feet are hot and weary 
D5           G5 
From a dusty mile 
    C5           F5 
And maybe I can make you laugh 
C5           F5  
Maybe I can try 
         C5       C5     C5 
I'm just lookin' for the evening 
        D5      G5       C5 
And the morning in your eyes. 
C5          C5    C5      C5              
I know you are no stranger down 
    F5               C5      C5 
The crooked rainbow trails 
     C5             C5   C5       C5 
From dancing cliff-edged shattered sills 
   F5                G5  
Of slender shackled jails 
C5              C5   C5     C5 
But the voices drift up from below 
       F5                   G5 
As the walls they're being scaled 
C5       G5       C5        
All of this and more  
     F5                 G5 
Your song shall not be failed. 
   C5             F5 
So take off your thirsty boots 
    C5        F5  
And stay for awhile 
     C5        C5     C5 
Your feet are hot and weary 
D5           G5 
From a dusty mile 
    C5           F5 
And maybe I can make you laugh 
C5           F5  
Maybe I can try 
         C5       C5     C5 
I'm just lookin' for the evening 
        D5      G5       C5 
And the morning in your eyes.
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