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[Verse 1]
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I can't believe I ever woke up
    G              D
without her here before
      A
all I know is that I can't do that right
G           D
   alone anymore
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another late night has become
        G               D
a day I never hoped I'd see
      G                     D
and I don't know what she's thinking
                       A
but it's surely not of me

[Verse 2]
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she was alone the night I met her
 G                D
alone deep in her eyes
          A
now she's heading for her hometown
         G                D
with the trucks on eighty five
   G           D
as clear shiny crystal
                    G
the hardest kind of blue
                        D
I'll take a pass on the smoke and the gas
    A                  D
I'm bound to get there too

[Chorus]
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oh my love I've got to find
     G               D
over backroad twenty nine
   G         D
Gastonia she came from
                       A
back there she's gone I pray
           D
but if she don't want to be found
        G              D
in that little redneck town
        G             D
I'll be crying to her momma
         A               D
when the sun goes down today

[Bridge]
   G                 D
Gastonia wants to forget her
                 A
Gastonia I never will
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Carolina how I love
             G             D
your rolling waters by the sea
         G           D
but that inland town drags me down
                     A
and roves right over me

[Verse 3]
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I followed behind her
       G           D
is she up there at all
            A
Lord please help me make the border
  G              D
before I hit the wall
        G              D
and the flowers that I bought her
                      G
lay beside me getting dry
        A
I'll be chasing her forever
     G              D
I'll never find out why

[Chorus]
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oh my love I've got to find
     G               D
over backroad twenty nine
   G         D
Gastonia she came from
                       A
back there she's gone I pray
           D
but if she don't want to be found
        G              D
in that little redneck town
        G             D
I'll be crying to her momma
         A               D
when the sun goes down today
        G             D
I'll be crying to her momma
         A               D
when the sun goes down today