CAPO: 3rd Fret 



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Big yellow moon, dark blue sky 
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Lighting up the mighty Mississippi 
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I'm headed home, I can't decide 
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If my heart is just too full or just too empty 


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Through the thousands of miles of the rivers and hills 
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And the highways I've come to know so well 
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I always knew I could fall back on you 
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Now it wouldn't matter which way I fell 


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Still, it's nice to keep moving, down the dotted line 
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Past the tractors in their amber waves of grain 
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If I keep my eyes open, take a little time 
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No two towns will ever look the same 


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And sometimes on the AM radio 
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I get a little local Polka show 
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And folks are friendly everywhere I go 


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Drank too much in Dayton, paid the whole next day 
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The snow in South Dakota was so dry it blew away 
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And it's not like someone's waiting when I get home anyway 
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So, I leave for Portland pretty soon, then down through Monterey 
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But right now this big old yellow moon is filling up the sky 
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And lighting up the mighty Mississippi