Hayes Carll – Arkansas Blues (Guitar)

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Well I hide behind my guitar like a sparrow in the night 

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Hopin' I might fly away anew 

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Cause they'll love you when you're wrong and then leave you when you're right 

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Tell me baby, what's a boy to do 

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Well I came to town a stranger not knowin' how to act 

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Figured I'd hang out and just get found 

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Made me some new friends, they climbed way on up my back 

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Been gone so long they ain't comin' down 

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You can kiss the sky good morning 

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You can say your prayers at night 

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Hide your soul way down in your shoes 

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But it's the same old scene 

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Borrowed love and faded dreams 

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And you just can't run   from those Arkansas blues 

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Well time is playin' tricks on me, makes me think I'm movin' fast

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I don't think I'm movin' at all  

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And every single stranger's face I see reminds me of the past  

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Come on big and leave you feelin' small 

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So I took to drinkin' liquor on the other side of town

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Way up in those woods, beside the moon 

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Where every graceful dream I had got lost without a sound 

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Tell you what, I can't leave this place too soon 

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And it don't take no rhyme or reason 

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It don't make no sense at all 

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Just one of those things that you don't choose 

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It's the same old scene 

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Broken hearts and busted strings 

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And you just can't run   from those Arkansas blues 

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Well everybody's askin' questions 'out whose side you're on 

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I don't see how it matters much to me 

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And all these midnight celebrations that are ended by the dawn 

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Leave you feelin' low as you can be 

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So I'm leavin' town this morning, gonna lighten up my load 

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See if I can't lose what I have found 

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And it's one drink for the memories and one kiss for the road 

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Aw, look out, I believe I'm Texas bound 

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California, Oklahoma 

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Arizona, Tennessee 

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I've been all around this land to pay my dues 

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High, low and right behind me 

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Wherever I go they find me 

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And I just can't run    from those Arkansas blues

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And I just can't run    from those Arkansas blue