Far from home    (intro)    (sample)

 

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1. When I was a growing boy,

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    a-rocking on my daddy's knee,

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    Daddy took an old guitar and sang

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    “Bury me on the lone prairie.”

 

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2. Uncle Bob sat at the piano,

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    my girl cousins sang harmony,

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    those were the good old family times

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    that left a big mark on me.

 

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   C                             G                        C                     G

Bury me out on the prairie where the buffalo used to roam,

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where the Canada geese once filled the sky,

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and then I won't be far from home.

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Bury me out on the prairie, where the buffalo used to roam,

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you won't have to shed a tear for me,

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'cause then I won't be far from home.

 

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3. Walking down the trans-Canada highway, 

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    I was talking to a firefly,

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    trying to make my way to Nashville, Tennessee,

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    when another car passed me by.

 

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4. Some day I'm gonna make big money,

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    and buy myself a big old car,

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    make my way on down to that promised land,

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    and then I'm gonna really go far.

 

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   C                             G                        C                     G

Bury me out on the prairie where the buffalo used to roam,

                   C                             G            A

where the Canada geese once filled the sky,

          C                                 G

and then I won't be far from home.

         C                              G                         C                     G

Just bury me out on the prairie, where the buffalo used to roam,

         C                              G         A

you won't have to shed a tear for me,

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'cause then I won't be far from home.

 

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    (Neil Young)