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James Taylor – Re Recorded by Chris LeDoux<\/span><\/p>\n

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[C] Took my last [F] fall in San [G] Diego\r\n[C] Bus headed [F] north one headed [G] south\r\n[F] I call a [G] farm in [C] Colorado\r\nAnd I [F] lift a dusty pay phone to my [G] mouth\r\n \r\n[C] She says [F] hello I say it's [G] me hon\r\n[C] Sorry I [F] stayed away so [G] long\r\nTell the [F] kids their old man's [G] through with playin' [C] rodeo\r\nCause if [F] it's alright with you I'm comin' [G] home \r\n\r\nWell there's [C] silence on the line\r\nShe says you [C] sure did take your time\r\nBut I still need a man for the things a man is [G] good for\r\n[Dm] You know how it is raisin' [A#] crops and raisin' kids\r\n[F] Demands a man at [G] least as fit as you [C] are\r\n[C] So come on git on home there's hay that needs a mowin'\r\nA boy that needs a whippin' and a hundred things to [G] do\r\nI hope you've [Dm] finally found your mind\r\nTo leave that [A#] rodeo behind\r\nI've spent [F] half my life just [G] waitin' here for [C] you\r\n \r\n \r\n[C] I guess that nows the [F] time I'd better [G] tell her\r\n[C] Hon I've got this [F] old friend that's here with [G] me\r\nHe [F] used to be a [G] cowboy and a [C] good one [G] so they [F] say\r\nBut now his legs are crippled he can't [G] walk you see\r\n[C] But hon you ought to [F] hear him tell his [G] stories\r\n[C] Sing the old songs [F] play the guitar [G] too\r\nI'd [F] really like to [G] show him [C] Colorado\r\nBut I [F] thought I'd better leave it up to [G] you\r\n \r\nWell there's [C] silence on the line\r\nAnd now I [C] hear her sayin'\r\nBabe I only need a man for the things a man is [G] good for\r\nAnd [Dm] you know how it is with a [A#] place just half this big\r\n[F] Demands a man at [G] least as fit as [C] you are\r\n[C] Put yourself in his place it'd awful hard to face\r\n[C] All the chores and work and nothing he could [G] do\r\nIf you [Dm] want to know my mind leave that [A#] rodeo bum behind\r\nDon't [F] waste our time I'm [G] waitin' here for [C] you\r\n \r\n[C] Well cryin's just for [F] kids I put [G] down the phone\r\n[C] Fumble with my [F] crutches movin' [G] slow\r\nI [F] wish that I was [G] on the bus that's [C] Colo[G] rado [F] bound\r\n[F] And I hope the weather's [G] nice in [C] Mexico<\/span><\/pre>\n
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James Taylor – Re Recorded by Chris LeDoux   [C] Took my last [F] fall in San [G] Diego [C] Bus headed [F] north one headed [G] south [F] I call a [G] farm in [C] Colorado And I [F] lift a dusty pay phone to my [G] mouth [C] … CLICK TO VIEW SONGSilence on the Line<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28013"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29717,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28013\/revisions\/29717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}