C# X4664X F# 24432X G# 46654X D# X6886X C# This ol' boy lived down the road from me F# C# Used to drive a beat-up Dodge Well, he showed up drunk as hell one night F# G# Parked in my garage Cm I had to ask him how'd he get so lost F# D# That you can't find your way home F# He said: G# C# F# I've been runnin' 'round in circles so long G# C# I didn't know ehere else to go F# G# C# F# I've been runnin' 'round in circles so long G# C# I didn't know where else to go C# See, his wife she left him F# An' took the kids C# An' he never was the same F# I guess they were all that he'd been livin' for G# An'he shouldered all the blame C# Well he always wondered what made her give up F# D# God, if he'd only known F# G# C# F# She'd be runnin' 'round in circles so long G# C# She didn't know ehere else to go F# G# C# F# She'd been runnin' 'round in circles so long G# C# She didn't know ehere else to go INTERLUDE (F# G# C#) x4 C# Well, this ol' boy lived down the road from me F# G# #C Today they laid him in the ground C# F# He drove that ol' Dodge right off the river bridge G# Without even slowin' down C# F# And he left a letter he wrote to his ol' man D# Said: I just lost control F# G# C# F# I've been runnin' 'round in circles so long G# C# I didn't know ehere else to go F# G# C# F# I've been runnin' 'round in circles so long G# C# I didn't know where else to go