James Taylor – Runaway Boy (Guitar)

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Words and Music by James Taylor from his 1988 album, "Never Die Young." [Intro] Cadd9 Am7 Dm Dm9 G Cadd9 Am7 Dm Dm9 G [Verse 1]
C                                      F
Fetch down the fiddle, rosin up the bow

C                            F C G
Don't play me nothing on the radio

C                              F
Don't make me remember the Alamo

                   G5         C              F  G/F  F
I'm feeling like a little bit of Cotton Eyed Joe
[Verse 2]
   C                      F
No raging Cajun crawfish stew

C                       F      G5
Fat batter coming in a loumamalou

C                        F
Boy howdy and howdy damn do

           C    G5          C    Am  Bsus2 C/Bb  Bb
Something like fine setting eyes on  you
[Chorus]
C
Let me come down

          Bb F/A      C
I won't never go back up again

F/A           Bb5add9   F/A
Oh, hold me down

C
Let me come home

          Bb  F/A  C
I won't never go away no more

F/A       Bb5add9  C
Oh, let me come   down
[Verse 3]
     F         Dm         F/A     Bb C
In a younger day back in Tennessee

    F           Bb            Gm7     C7
The muddy Mississippi used to call to me

F          Dm        Am7          Bb
Float on a river and set yourself free

   F         Bb            Dm7
Run from the farm and the family tree

   G9                C
Run from the runaway boy  yeah.
[Interlude] F C F C7 G C F C G N.C. C F G F C F C7 G C F C G N.C. C F [Verse 4]
        Cadd9                                   F
So I've been all the places that I ever want to be

     Cadd9                      F     C
I've seen all the people that I ever want to see

    Cadd9                              F
I'm sick and tired of being lonely and free

     F     G6               C         F  Fadd9
I'm ready today for what's waiting on me
[Verse 5]
           C                                 F
I'm gotta give up believing I was born to run

      C                          F        C   G5
Stop acting like a man that gets shot from a gun

     C                                    F
I'm putting down roots, I want to soak up sun

     F        C   G           C           Bbadd9  C/Bb  Bb
And stay right here until my days are done
[Chorus]
C
Let me back down

       Bb   F/A C
I will never go up again

F/A              Bb5add9  F/A
Hold me down, tie me on down

C
Let me go home

         Bb F/A   C
I will never go away no more

F/A  Bbadd9     C
Oh, let me come home

F/A Bb C            Am7  Dm9  G7sus4
Oh,    let me go down
[Outro] C Am7 Dm9 G7sus4 C Am7 Dm9 G7sus4 C Am7 Dm9 G7sus4