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****************** OMAHA *****************

written by Billy Joe Shaver and Hillman Hall

performed by Waylon Jennings.


Capo on the 2nd fret.

Chorus:
 G (320003@1)A (x02220@1)D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)          A (x02220@1)          D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)Omaha you've been weighing heavy on my mind
                         A (x02220@1)            D (xx0232@1)I guess i never really left at all
             G (320003@1)               A (x02220@1)                D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1)I'm turning all those roads i've walked around the other way
                            A (x02220@1)   D (xx0232@1)And coming back to you,Omaha


Verse 1:
          G (320003@1)     A (x02220@1)           D (xx0232@1)           G (320003@1)Omaha,Nebraska wasn't good enough for me
                            A (x02220@1)              D (xx0232@1)I always thought i was the roamin' kind
                G (320003@1)             A (x02220@1)          D (xx0232@1)             G (320003@1)With apocket (x02210@1)full of dreams and my one shirt on my back
                                                 A (x02220@1)I left there looking for some things to find


Verse 2:
                  G (320003@1)             A (x02220@1)      D (xx0232@1)               G (320003@1)Rode my thumb to San Francisco,i worked down by the bay
                              A (x02220@1)           D (xx0232@1)Got some schoolin' paid for by the law
              G (320003@1)              A (x02220@1)             D (xx0232@1)           G (320003@1)The hardest thing i learned was there ain't no easy way
                                           A (x02220@1)To get ahead behind those county walls


Verse 3:
                   G (320003@1)       A (x02220@1)              D (xx0232@1)           G (320003@1)So it's so long California,i reckon' i'll be moving on
                      A (x02220@1)              D (xx0232@1)I'm leaving even if i had to crawl
               G (320003@1)         A (x02220@1)         D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)I got some loose ends around that i left undone
                         A (x02220@1)       D (xx0232@1)Waiting there for me in Omaha


Chorus.


Thanks to David M. Potter (dmp12@cornell.edu) for the lyrics.
Perret Charles-Amir : perret@diva.univ-mlv.fr