Josh Ritter – Lawrence Ks (Guitar)

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-------------- [Verse 1] G G

     G          
Dirt roads and dry land farming

Might be the death of me

      C                          G
But I can't leave this world behind

And my debts are not like prison Were there's hope of getting free

      C                          G
And I can't leave this world behind

[Chorus 1]

D                                  C     
  I've been from here to Lawrence, Kansas

D                             C
  Trying to leave my state of mind

D                             C
  Trying to leave this awful sadness

                                 G
But I can't leave this world behind

[Verse 2]

         G
South of Deliah there's a patch

Out back by the willow tree

      C                          G
And I can't leave this world behind

It's a fenced in piece of nothing Where I hear voices on my knees

      C                          G
And I can't leave this world behind

[Chorus 2]

D                              C
  Some prophecies are self-fulfilling

D                                 C
  But I've had to work for all of mine

D                                    C
  Better times will come to me, God willing

                                   G
'Cause I can't leave this world behind

[Break] G C G G C G D C D C D C G G G [Verse 3]

     G
This world must be frightning

Everybody's on the run

      C                          G
And I can't leave this world behind

And my house is a wooden one And it's built on the ruins of a wooden one

         C                          G
Seem's I can't leave this world behind

[Chorus 3]

D                                     C
  Preacher says that when the master calls us

D                             C
  He's gonna give us wings to fly

D                                  C
  But my wings are made of hay and corn husks

                                G
So I can't leave this world behind

[Outro] G C G G G G