Intro
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Verse
             C              G               Em 
I was just a small boy in a northern Newfie town, 
G                 D                 G 
Wide eyes and big dreams of leavin' home. 
               C                G             Em 
Didn't want to wait 'till I was old enough to wander, 
     G               D                G 
So I travelled in my mind when I was alone. 
 
Verse
                       C                     G      Em 
I'd daydream 'bout the bright lights and big cities, 
        G            D                     G 
And I'd lay awake at night waiting for the time, 
                     C                 G              Em 
When I could pack my bags, and I could head out for adventure, 
G              D                   G 
Never dreamin' once about what's behind. 
 
Chorus
                         C                   G    Em 
I'm just dreamin' of the road that's leavin' home, 
G                   D              G 
Somewhere out there I just want to roam. 
                C             G                 Em 
Starin' out the window at the water, trees, and stone, 
    G               D                   G 
And dreamin' of the road that's leavin' home. 
 
Verse
                        C            G       Em 
Well, I finally hit the age of adult freedom, 
      G              D             G 
Could see if now I'd make it on my own. 
                      C         G        Em 
No worries, cares, or anyone to guide me, 
          G               D                 G 
It wasn't long before the turns I took were wrong. 
 
Verse
                          C                 G       Em 
And I spent some nights behind the gates of freedom, 
    G                 D              G 
Was my first taste of loneliness and fear. 
                     C                      G       Em 
A-and Monday morning they said, boy, you're leavin', 
      G                  D             G 
And I swore that I would never go back there. 
 
Chorus
                             C                   G    Em 
But that's the cracks upon a road that's leavin' home, 
     G                 D         G 
This dreamin' ain't so easy all alone. 
                           C             G                Em 
I've been starin' out this window at the water, trees and stone, 
    G               D                  G 
And dreamin' of the road that takes me home. 
 
Verse
                           C                 G          Em 
Well, years have passed by since I left that small town, 
    G               D               G 
I'm back there many thousand miles away. 
                    C              G        Em 
And I settled on in this one room apartment, 
G             D              G 
Wishin' I was leavin' here today. 
 
Verse
                         C               G      Em 
'Cause I miss my mom and dad, and all my family, 
       G              D                 G 
I miss starin' at the water, trees, and stones. 
                           C           G      Em 
And my mind drifts back to many years ago now, 
G              D                  G 
Back to when I dreamed of leavin' home. 
 
Chorus
                        C                  G    Em 
And now I pray I'm on a road that takes me home, 
    G              D             G 
I'm tired of bein' out here all alone. 
                C                  G         Em 
The age upon my face shows all the agony and stones, 
          G              D               G 
That I've faced upon the highway leavin' home. 
 
Outro
                    C                  G 
Now I pray I'm on a road that takes me home.