Charley Pride – In The Middle Of Nowhere (Guitar)

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Fate had meant for me one last time to see my hometown again

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Once again go there see the places where as a child I've been

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As I journeyed now it was so far out it was almost in

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In the middle in the middle of nowhere

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Sadness talked with me as I walked the streets of my memory

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Streets that seemed somehow so much smaller now than they used to be

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Talked of other days when this tiny place had been home to me

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In the middle in the middle of nowhere

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People stared at me in silence as I walked around

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Time had passed till I was just a stranger there

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Folks had changed so much that no one even knew me now

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In the middle in the middle of nowhere

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I went once again to the schoolyard where I used to play

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Passed the church of mom and daddy where they used to pray

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Down the dusty road to the churchyard where they both now lay

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In the middle in the middle of nowhere

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As I placed my blue forget-me-nots there on the ground

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One last time I knelt by mom and dad in prayer

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Then I said goodbye forever to that little town

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In the middle in the middle of nowhere