VerseEAE
Up in your nephew's room, playing on his cousin's guitar I wrote a song for you
EAE
You have done drove off everything I need, my box and my tumbleweed
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I picked it up on the way to flagstaff years ago
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I was hanging on to everything you had the grace to show
ChorusEF#mAE
You were young and you were hungry, Lord knows I was hungry too
EF#mAE
We were both flat out starving for something worth while to lose
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You were my bread I was your honey, up against a dark red wine
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Trying to hold on to the lovely, through the bitter of hard times
InstrumentalVerse 2EAE
Looking over the hill at the lights of your hometown I wrote a song for you
EAE
Thinking of the way we met, a girl home from school and a boy just passing through
F#mABm7
I got a job as a cutman at a house just down the road
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I'd never been to town before and I didnt know a soul
ChorusEF#mAE
I was young and I was hungry, Lord knows you were hungry too
EF#mAE
We were both flat out starving for something worth while to lose
EF#mAE
You were my bread I was your honey, up against a dark red wine
EF#mAE
Trying to hold on to the lovely, through the bitter of hard times
InstrumentalBridgeF#mABm7
Agate white wedding dress, turquoise on your ring
F#mABm7
Upright bass and violin as you walked the aisle to me
ChorusEF#mAE
I was young and I was hungry, Lord knows you were hungry too
EF#mAE
We were both flat out starving for something worth while to lose
EF#mAE
You were my bread I was your honey, up against a dark red wine
EF#mAE
Trying to hold on to the lovely, through the bitter of hard times
Outro
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