Capo 3 ? with INTRO /MIDDLE/OUTRO ? G5 C5 E5 D5 G5 (times 2) G5 D5 E5 C5 Walking down the main street of this town where I was born G5 D5 E5 C5 Looking at the things I?ve seen so many times before G5 D5 E5 C5 I take a deep breath, smile and kick a stone along the ground G5 D5 G5 Been so long since I?ve been around G5 D5 E5 C5 There's comfort in the way that everything still looks the same, G5 D5 E5 C5 and people that I bump into they call me by my name, G5 D5 E5 C5 It almost feels as though I never even left this town G5 D5 G5 Been so long since I?ve been around G5 D5 E5 C5 And My girlfriend she lived on Hawdon St - man was she a sight, G5 D5 E5 C5 Sometimes I would sneak into her bedroom late at night, G5 D5 E5 C5 Now she's not there - I'm told her family long since left the town, G5 D5 G5 Been so long since I?ve been around G5 D5 E5 C5 Yeah Many of my friends they found some other place they'd rather be G5 D5 E5 C5 But I still now of one good mate shes gunna keep me company G5 D5 E5 C5 But I think I?m gonna call her up, we'll go and paint the town, G5 D5 G5 Been so long since I?ve been around (Middle) G5 D5 E5 C5 I stopped on by her place, years ago I knew her well G5 D5 E5 C5 "lets go drink to old times at the Adelaide hotel' G5 D5 E5 C5 She said its twenty years now since they shut that old pub down G5 D5 G5 Been so long since I?ve been around G5 D5 E5 C5 Yeah But the hospital's still standing, down over by the river shore G5 D5 E5 C5 That's the place where I took my first breath, so many years before G5 D5 E5 C5 I take a deep breath now and feel my chest begin to pound G5 D5 G5 Been so long since I?ve been around (middle) G5 D5 E5 C5 Now I'm lying by the river feeling lazy in the shade G5 D5 E5 C5 Children shout and splash about in water where I played G5 D5 E5 C5 And I'm thinking I could stay a while, maybe settle down, G5 D5 G5 Been so long since I?ve been around (outro)
