Im Afraid To Go Home

#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE--------------------------------# #This file is the author’s own work and represents their interpretation of the# #song. You may only use this file for private study scholarship or research.# #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------# Date: Fri 13 Mar 1998 12:34:18 -0700 > Subject: h/hyland_brian/im_afraid_to_go_home.crd I’M AFRAID TO GO HOME written by Gary Geld and Peter Udell performed by Brian Hyland > Pattern 1: Em / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4 I’m afraid to go home I’m afraid to go home Worries on my mind afraid of what I’ll find Will my family be gone? I’m afraid to go home Back to Tennessee afraid of what I’ll see Pattern 2:   As I walk down this dusty road got a heart with a heavy load Ain’t one thing that’s the same   so much sorrow and pain   Headin’ home in a single file every inch is a quarter mile Ain’t heard nobody sing   ain’t seen one livin’ thing (in pattern 1): Someone’s waitin’ for me honey sweet as candy Wanna hold her tight; Lord make her be all right Maybe ’round on next bend all the ashes of land Valleys will be green instead of what I’ve seen (in pattern 2): I’m afraid for the scrubby pine for the sweet honeysuckle vine I’m afraid for my home for the fields that I roamed Kick along down a homeward road and your heart’s gotta take the load I’m afraid to go home I’m afraid to go home Sherman’s been in my town burned it all to the ground Now there’s not a tree ’tween Memphis and the Sea                   Am   (decelerate...)        Em Now there’s not a tree ’tween Memphis and the Sea