(Verse)
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Dark highways and the country roads
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Don’t scare you like they did
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The woods and winds, they’ll welcome you
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To the places you once hid
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(Verse)
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You grew up and you moved away
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Across a foreign see
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And what was left was what was kept
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That’s what you gave to me
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(Chorus)
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You thought you left it all behind
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You thought you’d up and gone
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When all you did was figure out
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How to take the long way home
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(Verse)
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The southern rain was heavy
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Almost heavy as your heart
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A cavalcade of strangers came
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To tear your world apart
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(Verse)
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The bells of old Saint Mary’s
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And now the cling of charcoal hill
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And you took the old religion folk
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I won’t be home again
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(Chorus x2)
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You thought you left it all behind
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You thought you’d up and gone
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When all you did was figure out
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How to take the long way home
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The long way home…
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The Long Way Home
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| Rosanne Cash |
