John Hiatt – Down Around My Place (Ukulele)

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The radio is busted, down around my place

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Every tool is rusted, down around my place

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Creeks and rivers dried up, down around my place 

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My woman's tears are cried up, down around my place

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And before there came a flood

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Some lost all, even blood

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Now the sun and wind have come 

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Down around my place

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Down around my place

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These hunting grounds were hallowed, down around my place

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Exhausted fields lay fallow, down around my place

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Kingdoms come and crumble, down around my place

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My prayers are merely mumbles, down around my place

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And I put my faith in you

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Did you make that error too?

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Bound to fail that he might show his grace

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Down around my place

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Down around my place

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They said you wouldn't believe

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What a paradise this was

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'Til every Adam and Eve, Tom, Dick and Harry

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Started fighting for what he loved

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So, we fortified the ramparts

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And we built the mighty towers

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But it was plain to see, we never were free

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From the tyranny of the hour

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The family graves keep winkin', down around my place

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At every thought I'm thinkin', down around my place

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While the young ones crowd the table, down around my place

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Bitchin' about no cable, down around my place

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And my grandpa says, "Don't worry

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It's always the last one in who's in a hurry

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To try and slam the door in the next one's face"

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Down around my place

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Down around my place

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Down around my place

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Down around my place

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Down around my place