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Capo 3


[Verse 1]

G  G

     G          
Dirt roads and dry land farming

Might be the death of me
      C                          G
But I can't leave this world behind

And my debts are not like prison

Were there's hope of getting free
      C                          G
And I can't leave this world behind

[Chorus 1]

D                                  C     
  I've been from here to Lawrence, Kansas
D                             C
  Trying to leave my state of mind
D                             C
  Trying to leave this awful sadness
                                 G
But I can't leave this world behind

[Verse 2]

         G
South of Deliah there's a patch 

Out back by the willow tree
      C                          G
And I can't leave this world behind
       
It's a fenced in piece of nothing

Where I hear voices on my knees
      C                          G
And I can't leave this world behind

[Chorus 2]

D                              C
  Some prophecies are self-fulfilling
D                                 C
  But I've had to work for all of mine
D                                    C
  Better times will come to me, God willing
                                   G
'Cause I can't leave this world behind

[Break]

G  C  G  G  C  G   
D  C  D  C  D  C  
G  G  G

[Verse 3]

     G
This world must be frightning

Everybody's on the run
      C                          G
And I can't leave this world behind

And my house is a wooden one

And it's built on the ruins of a wooden one
         C                          G
Seem's I can't leave this world behind

[Chorus 3]

D                                     C
  Preacher says that when the master calls us
D                             C
  He's gonna give us wings to fly
D                                  C
  But my wings are made of hay and corn husks
                                G
So I can't leave this world behind