My daddy sits
| on the front porch
| Swimgin' lookin' out
| on a vacant field
| Used to be filled
| with burly tobacco
| Now he knows it
| never will
| My brother found
| work in Indiana
| Sister's nurse
| at the old folks home
| Momma's still
| cookin' too much
| For supper and me
| I've been a longtime
| Gone been
| a longtime gone
| No I ain't
| hoed a row
| Since I don't know
| when longtime gone
| And it ain't
| comin' back again~
|
| Delia plays that
| old church piano
| Sittin' out on
| her daddy's farm
| She always thought
| that we'd be
| Together lord
| I never meant to do
| Her harm said
| she could hear me
| Singin'
| in the choir me
| I heard another song
| I caught wind
| And hit the road
| running' and
| Lord I been
| a longtime gone
| Been a longtime
| gone lord
| I ain't had
| a prayer since
| I don't know
| when longtime gone
| And it ain't
| comin' back again~
|
| Now me I went to
| nashville
| Tryin' to be
| the big deal
| Playin' down on
| broadway geltin'
| There the hard way
| livin' from a tip
| Jar sleepin'
| in my car
| Hockin' my guitar yeah
| I'm gonna be a star~
| Now me and delia
| singin' every sunday
| Watchin' the children
| and the garden grow
| We listen to
| the radio to hear
| What's cookin'
| but the music
| Ain't got no soul
| now they sound tired
| But they don't sound
| haggard
| They got money but
| they don't have cash
| They got junior but
| they don't have hank
| I think
| I think I think
| The rest is a longtime
| gone no I
| Ain't hit the roof
| since I don't know
| When longtime gone and
| it ain't comin' back
| I said a longtime
| gone no
| I ain't honked
| the horn since
| I don't know
| when longtime gone
| And it ain't
| comin' back again~
| I said a longtime
| longtime longtime gone
| Oh it's been
| a longtime
| Longtime longtime
| longtime gone
| Oh it's been
| a long~ time
| Gone longtime
| longtime
| Longtime
| gone yeah yeah~
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| Long Time Gone
| | Dixie Chicks |
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