Tom: Bb
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[Verse 1]
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Another Friday night,
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Guess I’ll put a clean shirt on
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And hitch a ride to town.
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No more work for two whole days,
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There’s no point hanging 'round.
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Working on the road,
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I sweat and ache and cuss the pain,
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But it sure does pass the time.
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Two days free and all I see
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Are the same old walls to climb.
[Pre-chorus 1]
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Guess I could fall by Moreau’s Bar,
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And maybe borrow Jack’s guitar,
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And find a girl to sing to,
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Lord knows she’s what I’m longing.
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Hey, who am I kidding? She can’t be
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The sort of girl who’ll wait for me
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In Sunday laces,
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In the kind of places
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I belong in.
[Chorus]
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But I hold on to my dreams anywaaay,
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I’ll never let them die.
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They keep me going through the bad times,
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While I dream of the good times coming by.
[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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Ten years out from home,
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I joined the circus, worked the fields,
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But I never saved a dime.
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Never stayed in one place long
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'Less I was doing time.
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Looking for my life,
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I thought I’d found it once or twice,
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But it turned out I was wrong.
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Heard the music and learned to dance
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To someone else’s song.
[Pre-chorus 2]
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I’ve had men tell me, be content
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To spend your life for food and rent
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And give up trying
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They say life’s a dying jailor.
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I just tell them, I do alright.
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Still it’s rough on Friday night.
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When there’s time for thinking
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I spend it drinking
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Up my failure.
[Chorus]
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But I hold on to my dreams anywaaay,
Eb Eb/D Cm
I’ll never let them die.
Bb Bb/A Gm
They keep me going through the bad times,
F Eb Cm Bb
While I dream of the good times coming by.
