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[Verse 1]
C                                F
"Don't you let the lessons stop, time ain't just hands on a clock"
C                              G
That's what I'm gonna tell Pop when I leave
C                            F
A vision on the lonely road, it's something that I gotta know:
C                   G             C
If I can drive this car all on my own

[Verse 2]
C                                  F
I guess I'll leave my girl behind, I should have done that long ago
C                                  G
Sometime I'm sure the pain will go away
C                         F
It wasn't working anyhow, the burners on the stove burnt out
C                G             C
A shame I didn't figure it out before

[Chorus]
Am            C                  F         C
Girls, gather round and let that long hair down
Am         F                G
Sing along with me before I go
Am            C         F                    C
Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the
F                          G     C
Things that we ain't never gonna know

[Verse 3]
C                             F
I met a man in San Francisco, he told me he did the same thing
C                G
Fifty years ago, he left his girl behind
C                                      F
He sits there in the park, one hand is strumming his guitar
C                        G        C
Songs he found inside a bottle of wine

[Verse 4]
C                                  F
I saw the same things on his face, the ones that made me race away from
C                          G
everything I'd ever really known
C                         F
The scare to take responsibility from here -and put her there-
C                          G            C
Where everyone can see the seeds you've sown

[Chorus]
Am            C                  F         C
Girls, gather round and let that long hair down
Am         F                G
Sing along with me before I go
Am            C         F                    C
Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the
F                          G     C
Things that we ain't never gonna know

[Instrumental
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[Chorus]
Am            C                  F         C
Girls, gather round and let that long hair down
Am         F                G
Sing along with me before I go
Am            C         F                    C
Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the
F                          G     C
Things that we ain't never gonna know

C
You know my line Joe?

[Verse 5]
C                                    F
If you think about the creature that you might have thought would teach you
C                                                 G
That our hearts are just the thing right from the start
C                                  F
It would keep us from the worries, safe from sound and safe from fury,
C                                G       C
Safe at home besides the ones we know we loved

[Verse 6]
C                             F
If you told me from the start that I could never be apart from her,
C                                        G
I'd tell you, "go to hell, get out of my way"
C                                          F
But I've come back with my tail between my legs I didn't know the way
C                G              C
A man can't be a man all on his own

[Chorus]
Am            C                  F         C
Girls, gather round and let that long hair down
Am         F                G
Sing along with me before I go
Am            C         F                    C
Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the
F                          G     C
Things that we ain't never gonna know

[Outro]
Am               C            F        C
The sun is going down on this lonesome town
Am                 F          G
But I got you here to keep my company
Am               C       F                     C
You ever had the feeling that we're living for a reason?
F                 G                  C
For that reason I won't ever let you go
Am               C       F                     C
You ever had the feeling that we're living for a reason?
F                 G                  C
For that reason I won't ever let you go
F                 G                  C
For that reason I won't ever let you go
F                 G                  Am
For that reason I won't ever let you go
C            F              G            C
    For that reason I won't ever let you go