E                                    A
This old hound is St. Mary?s bound
          B                                                              E
And this old hound has still got a ways to go
                                                                      A
Spend the first half of your just trying to run away
                        B                                                        E
Spend the second half just trying to get back home

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                                     A 
To the Cumberland Sound
             B                                                         E
Someday I?ll cross that river and settle down
     C#m                               A           B                 E               F#m
Like voices from the timber, I can?t get it out of my head
                A              
It?s all I hear

E A B E

E                                                        A
Cotton ain?t the king no more, Kudzu is
             B                                                                      E
It?s swallowing up the land and choking off the life
                                                                A
Inch by inch it pushed me to the precipice
     B                                                                           E
Gonna wade right in that water and float on down

Chorus:

  E                                                  A
This old hound is St. Mary?s bound
          E                                                                     E
And this old hound ain?t nowhere near there yet
                                                                              A
But the ground been frozen since the new year
          B                                                                  E
And the cold dry air lies hard against my veins

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