Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Someone left a child and did not even care

Before the first shots of the battle here had even pierced the air

Yes, they run now like them children to those arms of mother earth

Trying to pretend as if there was a day before their very birth

Chorus

But, me I just grab these ropes that me and mine have left behind

And I stare up to that mountain that I know I got to climb

I keep towin that line Mmmmmm

I keep towin that line Mmmmmm

But,down in basements choked with smoke child of the past

All them dreams come up for air round here but they can only gasp

All them old men they sit staring as life slips out of their grips

Only to fall and disappear beyond their cracked old fingertips

REPEAT CHORUS

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I keep towin that line Mmmmmm

I keep towin that line Mmmmmm

But down in ditches by that road I call my own

All of you come a cussin' now all and all just throwing stones

Yes they're big men now to settle down and life's so stale and cold

As if I could spend my life the way they do just as they're told

So if you should find me living low when the miles have passed me by

And it seems that I have left now all that I could love behind

I'm just towin that line Mmmmmm

I'm just towin that line Mmmmmm