G
A Southern girl, about 15
                        C         G
Had a vivid vision and one track dream
 G
Her simple life felt incomplete
                         C       G
No roads to follow, no signs to seek

        C
She'd leave her home far behind
        G
Maybe change for the better

So sweet and kind, a southern girl
       G
Little did she know


[Chorus]
       C
On a trail of tears, hard as light
      G
On a man she loved and now she cried
  C
Trail of tears, caution to the wind
  G                      C      G
Follow the heart to the bitter end
  G                     C     G
Follow the heart to the bitter end
 C          G
The bitter end

[Verse]
     G
She found herself lost one night
                        C       G
The road back home, nowhere in sight
 G
She tripped she fell, scattered and torn
                      C             G
Crippled by fear and chilled to the bone

     C
She turned and looked back to where she had been
 G
Carried on a cold Oregon wind
 G
Southern girl little did she know


[Chorus]
 G                         C      G
Followed her heart to the bitter end
 G                         C      G
Followed her heart to the bitter end
     C     G
The bitter end

     C     G
The bitter end