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C  C/B  Am 
Almost home 
                D                         Am 
When I missed the bottom stair 
                 D                          Am 
You were braiding your gray hair 
           C  Em/B   G 
It had grown so long 
            C   Em/B   G 
Since I'd been gone 

              C   C/B  Am 
And the perfect girls 
             D                          Am 
By the pool, they would protest 
          D                          Am 
The cross around their necks 
              C            Em/B    G 
But our sons were overseas 
                    C      Em/B       G                       C    C/B    Am 
And we all know about the hive and the honeybees 

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C   C/B  Am 
Almost home 
               D                          Am 
With an olive branch and a dove 
                  D                            Am 
You were beating on a Persian rug 
                  C                    Em/B      G 
With your bible and your wedding band 
           C                Em/B  G 
Both hidden on the TV stand 

                C    C/B    Am 
When a cruel wind blew, 
            D           Am 
Every city father fell 
              D            Am 
Off the county carousel 
                  C             Em/B     G 
While the dogs were eating snow 
             C           Em/B        G                         C      C/B C/A G 
All our sons had sunk in a trunk of Noah's clothes 

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C  C/B   Am 
Almost home 
               D                       Am 
And got lost on our new street 
                    D                      Am 
While your grieving girls all died in their sleep 
              C        Em/B     G 
So the dogs all went unfed, 
                C        Em/B         G 
A great dream of bones all piled on the bed 

               C     C/B       Am 
And the cops couldn't care 
                    D                       Am 
When that crackhead built a boat 
                     D                  Am 
And said, "Please, before I go, 
                C     Em/B     G 
May our only honored bond 
             C        Em/B   G                      F9 
Be the kinship of the kids in the riot squad)