E                         G#m  
 The Highway sun said the Georgia Line  
 A                 F#m  
 was twenty miles away.  
     E                       F#m                     B7    A  
 I thought I'd take a detour, and see the old home place.  
 E                     G#m                     A  
 I could have found my way back with my eyes closed,  
             F#m  
 and in the dark.  
       E                              B7                  E  
 This old dirt road 'aint on the map, I know the way by heart.  

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           A  
 And the house still looks the same,  
                                                 E  
 though the name on that old mailbox has been changed.  
            A  
 And the tractor turns the Earth,   
                                          E  
 That my daddy and a mule had plowed up first.  
           C#m                   F#m  
 As the memories return, and my eyes begin to burn.  
            A              B7   A      E  
 This old place, has new faces in the field.
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 The rocking chair is on the front porch  
 Moved from the sudden wind.  
 Its almost like my mom and dad, are sitting there again.  
 I hear my brother calling me from his favorite, climbing tree  
 But I'm just hearing echoes, of how things used to be.  
 
 (Chorus)