Old Crow Medicine Show – Take Em Away (Guitar)

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 Take 'em away, take 'em away, Lord

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 Take away these chains from me

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 My heart is broken 'cause my spirit's not free

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 Lord, take away these chains from me

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Some bird feathers are too bright to be caged

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I know I'm not that colorful but a bird just the same

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Open up your gate now let me put down my load

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So I can feel at ease and go back to my home

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 Take 'em away, take 'em away, Lord

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 Take away these chains from me

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 My heart is broken 'cause my spirit's not free

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 Lord, take away these chains from me

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Sun beatin' down my legs can't seem to stand

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There's a boss man at a turnrow with a rifle in his hand

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 I've got nine children, nothin' in the pan

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My wife she died hungry while I was plowin' land

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 Take 'em away, take 'em away, Lord

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 Take away these chains from me

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 My heart is broken 'cause my spirit's not free

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 Lord, take away these chains from me

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Can't see when I go to work, can't see when I get off

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 How do you expect a man not to get lost

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Every year I just keep getting deeper in debt

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If there's a happy day, Lord, I haven't seen one yet

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 Take 'em away, take 'em away, Lord

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 Take away these chains from me

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 My heart is broken 'cause my spirit's not free

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 Lord, take away these chains from me

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Land that I love is the land that I'm workin'

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But it's hard to love it all the time when your back is a-hurtin'

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 Gettin' too old now to push this here plow

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 Please let me lay down so I can look at the clouds

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 Take 'em away, take 'em away, Lord

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 Take away these chains from me

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 My heart is broken 'cause my spirit's not free

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 Lord, take away these chains from me

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The land that I know is where two rivers collide

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The Brazos, the Navaso and the big blue sky

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Flood plains, freight trains, watermelon vines 

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Of any place on God’s green earth, this is where I choose to die 

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 Take 'em away, take 'em away, Lord

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 Take away these chains from me

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 My heart is broken 'cause my spirit's not free

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 Lord, take away these chains from me