@!Artist: Frank Peters
@!Speed5 
90 bpm
Key of A  capo 2 play G

Am             Dm         E            Am

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When I was just a kid, I kissed a bad heartbreak goodbye 
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Settled in my car for a thousand mile drive
                                        Dm                
Spent Christmas at my sisters near the cold wet BC beach
 E                                    Am               
Wound up in the Charlotte's building culverts out of trees.


                                     Dm                      
I was padding on a shovel, building logging roads for bucks
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Blowing stumps with Amex II and praying hard for luck.
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Walking logs in cork-boots, a backpack full of stuff
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like dynamite and B-line with a sandwich in a sack.


            F              C
And the rain kept falling, falling on my face,
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Rain kept falling, washing memories away.

                            Dm
A section or more, we were shaping the road.  
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moving logs and stumps and smoothing out below.
                                 Dm
The rock trucks were pushing, we had to keep ahead
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Working hard till dark, then fueling up the rig

            F                               C
And the rain kept falling, falling on my face,
 E                          Am                                                                                      
Rain kept falling, washing memories away.

            F               C
And the rain kept falling, falling on my face,
   E                        Am                                                                                      
Rain kept falling, washing memories away.

{Solo verse}

And the rain kept falling, falling on my face,
   E                        Am                                                                                      
Rain kept falling, washing memories away.

                           Dm
Walk out on the sub-grade slipping through the muck
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heading for the  gravel,  to where we'd left the truck.
                          Dm
Half an hour back to camp and with any luck
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Cookie still had grub on,  he was cleaning up the shack. 

        F                               C
Still the rain kept falling, falling from my face,
   E                         Am                                                                                      
Rain kept falling, washing memories away.

         F                 C
And the rain kept falling, falling from my face,
   E                       Am                                                                                      
Rain kept falling, washing memories away.

E                          Am                      
Rain kept falling, washing memories away.

E                Am