C
F
C
They had meant for me one last time to see my hometown again
G7
C
Once again go there see the places where as a child I’ve been
F
C
As I journeyed now it was so far out it was almost in
G7
C
In the middle in the middle of nowhere
F
C
Sadness talked with me as I walked the streets of my memory
G7
C
Streets that seemed somehow so much smaller now than they used to be
F
C
Talked of other days when this tiny place had been home to me
G7
C
In the middle in the middle of nowhere
F
People stared at me in silence as I walked around
C
G7
Time had passed till I was just a stranger there
C
F
Folks had changed so much that no one even knew me now
C
G7
C
In the middle in the middle of nowhere
F
C
I went once again to the schoolyard where I used to play
G7
C
Passed the church of mom and daddy where they used to pray
F
C
Down the dusty road to the churchyard where they both now lay
G7
C
In the middle in the middle of nowhere
F
As I placed my blue forget-me-nots there on the ground
C
G7
One last time I knelt by mom and dad in prayer
C
F
Then I said goodbye forever to that little town
C
G7
C
In the middle in the middle of nowhere
G7
F
C
