Standard (EADGBE)

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>Honey when I brought you here you said that you would sing(?)

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>You said that you would win(?) your way to fortune and fame

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>Now I've given everything to keep you warm and clean

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>I didn't bat an eye when you changed your name

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>I'm getting tired of hearing people call you someone else

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>I'm getting tired of seeing you go to work in the morning and eating

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>supper by myself

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>Now this Hollywood producer has offered you the world

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>He lets you drive his sporty new Camero

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>Wonder just how many girls he's told that story to

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>How many dreams have gone away in sorrow

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>I'm getting tires of biting my nails and pumping gasoline

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>I'm getting tired of waiting for you to figure out why this city is

>unclean

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>Mae Jean run back home with me and I'll go back to working on your

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>daddy's farm

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>Mae Jean run back home with me

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>This wicked cities bound to do us harm

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>Now all this time I helped you with your promising career

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>I never said one word about your singing

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>I just want to let you know that you'll still be my star

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>If you say goodbye to Hollywood

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>And do your singing in the shower

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>Mae Jean run back home with me back to where the air is clean + free

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>May Jean run back home with me

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>If this city doesn't get us first it's gonna sink into the sea

>From The Byrds Box Set Columbia/Legacy Records 1990

>out-take from the Ballad Of Easy Rider

>recorded 6/23/69