G    D  G

[Verse 1]
G
Well, she looked so small
    D
She looked so frail
       C
It was like the world forgot her
       Bm
As she stood outside the jail

[Verse 2]
     G
They sit and stare
     D
They rarely speak
    C
She comes to see him
         Bm
The same time every week

[Verse 3]
          G
And never wants to leave
        D
But she knows she must
         C
Then the yellow cab comes right on time
    Bm                   D
And scoops her up like a speck of dust

[Chorus]
          C    D     G
When it’s time to go home
     C    G     Am     C
It’s time to go home
                      D         B7
Where the night stays too long
                  Em
In a world that’s just gone wrong
     C    D     G
It’s time to go home

[Verse 4]
G
How did one summer
       D
Become nineteen years?
     C
The Alaskan winters took their toll
    Bm
And then they made it clear

[Verse 5]
    G
The gillnets and seiners
    D
The salmon and crab
    C
The dull-eyed girls of Ketchikan
     Bm
That took all that I had

[Verse 6]
        G
I could sell the boat
         D
Cash the whole thing down
     C
Move back to the Forty-Eight
          Bm              D
Just tell stories back in that small town

[Chorus]
          C    D     G
When it’s time to go home
     C    G     Am     C
It’s time to go home
                      D         B7
Where the night stays too long
                  Em
In a world that’s just gone wrong
     C    D     G
It’s time to go home

[Verse 7]
G
Well, your t-shirt’s clean
          D
Like your dungarees
       C
And in two days you will be
        Bm
On your way overseas

[Verse 8]
    G
Sit on the bed
       D
With a warm six-pack
         C
Ah, it’s not like how they said
         Bm
But it’s too late now to take it back

[Verse 9]
       G
So you make some calls
    D
But no one’s home
    C
You nurse your beers
              Bm                D
And spend the long night by the telephone

[Chorus]
          C    D     G
When it’s time to go home
     C    G     Am     C
It’s time to go home
                      D         B7
Where the night stays too long
                  Em
In a world that’s just gone wrong
     C    D     G
It’s time to go home