Tuning Standard / No capo
For "C" us Cadd9

(Muted Strumming)
1,2
1,2,3,4

GC G, GD C (x32010@1)G (320003@1)                      C (x32010@1)     GWhen (320003@1)I was young I had a girl so pretty
G (320003@1)                      D (xx0232@1)     CWhen (x32010@1)I was young I had a girl so true
G (320003@1)                          C (x32010@1)         GBut (320003@1)you left town and headed out for the city
G (320003@1)                         D (xx0232@1)         CAnd (x32010@1)you said you were never coming back through

GC G, GD C (x32010@1)G (320003@1)                          C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1) You got a mama and a papa, sister and a brother
G (320003@1)                  D (xx0232@1)        CBut (x32010@1)you ain't got no friends of mine
G (320003@1)                      C (x32010@1)          GYou (320003@1)know I cant tell the one from the other
G (320003@1)                                  D (xx0232@1)       CAnd (x32010@1)since you've been gone, Ive been losing my mind.

G D C

Chorus:
           G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1)         CAnd (x32010@1)if you find your way back to the river
         G (320003@1)     D (xx0232@1)         CWont (x32010@1)you wash my black water soul
             G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)         CCause (x32010@1)I have found my own way back to shelter
             Em (022000@1)    D/Fsus (mute)
But wont you fi----------nd your way back home

G C G, G D C (x2)

G (320003@1)                    C (x32010@1)  GSo (320003@1)I left town about a year ago
G (320003@1)                                  D (xx0232@1)  CIve (x32010@1)been to New York, Tree Port, and Chicago
G (320003@1)                             C (x32010@1)       GAnd (320003@1)every now and then I send a post card home
G (320003@1)                          D (xx0232@1)   CCause (x32010@1)being gone don't change being alone

G (320003@1)                     C (x32010@1)    GSo (320003@1)if you ever miss the cotton fields
G (320003@1)                                D (xx0232@1)       CYou (x32010@1)can find me hanging around the Moonshine Still
G (320003@1)                    C (x32010@1)     GCome (320003@1)back home if your love is real
G (320003@1)                         D (xx0232@1)   CCause (x32010@1)I ain't scared of the way I feel

Chorus x2