Tom: D D [Verse 1] D I can't believe I ever woke up G D without her here before A all I know is that I can't do that right G D alone anymore D another late night has become G D a day I never hoped I'd see G D and I don't know what she's thinking A but it's surely not of me [Verse 2] D she was alone the night I met her G D alone deep in her eyes A now she's heading for her hometown G D with the trucks on eighty five G D as clear shiny crystal G the hardest kind of blue D I'll take a pass on the smoke and the gas A D I'm bound to get there too [Chorus] D oh my love I've got to find G D over backroad twenty nine G D Gastonia she came from A back there she's gone I pray D but if she don't want to be found G D in that little redneck town G D I'll be crying to her momma A D when the sun goes down today [Bridge] G D Gastonia wants to forget her A Gastonia I never will D Carolina how I love G D your rolling waters by the sea G D but that inland town drags me down A and roves right over me [Verse 3] D I followed behind her G D is she up there at all A Lord please help me make the border G D before I hit the wall G D and the flowers that I bought her G lay beside me getting dry A I'll be chasing her forever G D I'll never find out why [Chorus] D oh my love I've got to find G D over backroad twenty nine G D Gastonia she came from A back there she's gone I pray D but if she don't want to be found G D in that little redneck town G D I'll be crying to her momma A D when the sun goes down today G D I'll be crying to her momma A D when the sun goes down today