E A E I left my Adirondack home about a year ago E F# B7 I met up with bad company, the kind you shouldn’t know E A E I learned to drink and gamble, turned out to be a bum E B7 E Now I’m tired of roamin’ around and I’m gonna be back home E A E There’s a path that leads back to my Adirondack home E F# B7 I’m goin’ back tonight, and I never more will roam E A E I can see my mother there, for her boy she says a prayer E B7 E And she waits in her arm chair in my Adirondack home E A E Now dad has left this cruel world for heaven up above E F# B7 Leaving mother all alone with thon and me to love E A E But I left my little home, found nothin’ short of pain E B7 E I know that I was wrong and I’m goin’ back again E A E There’s a path that leads back to my Adirondack home E F# B7 I’m goin’ back tonight, and I never more will roam E A E I can see my mother there, for her boy she says a prayer E B7 E And she waits in her arm chair in my Adirondack home [Break] E A E E F# B7 E A E Now that you heard my story, don’t ever leave your home E F# B7 When your mother needs you so don’t you ever start to roam E A E Don’t disappoint your mother for someday she’ll be gone E B7 E Whenever you’re away, don’t forget this little song E A E There’s a path that leads back to my Adirondack home E F# B7 I’m goin’ back tonight, and I never more will roam E A E I can see my mother there, for her boy she says a prayer E B7 E And she waits in her arm chair in my Adirondack home