Key: :[C] (w: John Prine, 1986)
INTRO: [C] [F] [G] [C]
VERSE 1:
[C] You come home late and you come home
[F] early
[G] You come on big when you're feeling
[C] small
[C] You come home straight and you come home
[F] curly
[G] Sometimes you don't come home at
[C] all
CHORUS:
[C] So what in the world's come
[F] over you
[G] And what in heaven's name have ya
[C] done
[C] You've broken the speed of the sound of
[F] loneliness
[G] You're out there running just to be on the
[C] run
VERSE 2:
[C] Well I got a heart that burns with a
[F] fever
[G] And I got a worried and a jealous
[C] mind
[C] How can a love that'll last for-
[F]-ever
[G] Get left so far be-
[C]-hind
REPEAT CHORUS:
INSTRUMENTAL: [over VERSE]
VERSE 3:
[C] It's a mighty mean and a dreadful
[F] sorrow
[G] It's crossed the evil line
[C] today
[C] How can you ask about to-
[F]-morrow
[G] When we ain't got one word to
[C] say
REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]
OUTRO:
[G] You're out there running just to be on the
[C] run
[G] You're out there running just to be on the
[C] run
[F] [G] [C open]