Dixie Chicks
"Long Time Gone"

Season 9
"One Can Only Hope"

Daddy sits on the front porch swingin'
Lookin' out on a vacant field
Used to be filled with burley tobacco
Now he knows it never will
My brother found work in Indiana
Sister's a nurse at the old folks home
Momma still cooking too much for supper
And me I've been a long time gone

Been a long time gone
No I ain't hoed a row since I don't know when
Long time gone
And I ain't comin' back again

Deliah plays that old church piano
Sittin' out on her daddy's farm
She always thought that we'd be together
Lord I never meant to do her harm
Said she could her me singin' in the choir
Me, I heard another song
I caught wind and hit the road runnin'
And lord I've been long time gone

Been a long time gone
Lord I ain't had a prayer since I don't know when
Long time gone
And it ain't comin' back again

Now me I went to Nashville
Trying to be the big deal
Playing down on Broadway
Gettin' there the hard way
Livin' from a tip jar
Sleepin' in my car
Huggin' my guitar
Yeah, I'm gonna be a star

Now me and Deliah singin' every Sunday
Watchin' the children and the garden grove
Listen to the radio to hear what's cookin'
But the music ain't got....no soul!

Now they sound tired but they don't sound haggard
They got money but they don't have cash
They got Junior but they don't have Hank
I think
I think
I think

The rest is a long time gone
No I ain't hit the roof since I don't know when
Long time gone
And it ain't comin' back
I said Long time gone
No I ain't honked the horn since I don't know when
Long time gone
And it ain't comin' back again

I said a long time, long time, long time gone
Oh it's been a long time

Long time, long time, long time gone
Oh it's been a long
Time
Gone

Long time, long time, long time gone... yea yea!

Courtesy of: Kristina

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