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Joe Diffie

Written by Fred Lehner and Andy Spooner

Key of C · Chords: I IV V vi

Verse 1

C
The only the thing I see ahead
   F               G7             C
Is just the heat a rising off the road
                       G7
The rainbows I've been chasing
        F               G7             C
Keep on fadin' before I find my pot of gold

Verse 2

    F
And more and more I'm thinking that
                                  C   Am
The only treasures that I'll ever know
    C
Are long ago and far behind
G7                           C
Wrapped up in my memories of home

Verse 3

F
Home was a swimming hole and a fishing pole
                                        C
And the feel of a muddy road between my toes
F
Home was a back porch swing where I would sit
                   C
And mom would sing Amazing Grace
                       G7
While she hung out the clothes

Verse 4

F
Home was an easy chair with my daddy there
                                      C    Am
And the smell of Sunday supper on the stove
   C
My footsteps carry me away
    G7                          C   G7
But in my mind I'm always going home

Verse 5

        C
Now the miles I put behind me
         F           G7             C
Ain't as hard as the miles that lay ahead
                         G7
And it's way too late to listen
       F               G7            C
To the words of wisdom that my daddy said

Verse 6

    F
The straight and narrow path he showed me
                               C    Am
Turned into a thousand winding roads
   C
My footsteps carry me away
    G7                          C
But in my mind I'm always going home

Verse 3

F
Home was a swimming hole and a fishing pole
                                        C
And the feel of a muddy road between my toes
F
Home was a back porch swing where I would sit
                   C
And mom would sing Amazing Grace
                       G7
While she hung out the clothes

Verse 4

F
Home was an easy chair with my daddy there
                                      C    Am
And the smell of Sunday supper on the stove
   C
My footsteps carry me away
    G7                          C   G7
But in my mind I'm always going home

Verse 7

Repeat last verse