CAPO 4 F G Am I did what everyone else does F G Am I drifted back to my hometown F G With my restless heart kept hidden C G Am Deep within my chest I knew F G C They'd have to take me back again F G C Am Put on my shoes to search for clues F G AM But you'll never find them there F G Nor with the mates from your old class C G Am Gathered after midnight mass F G C Round the bar in the predawn hours of Christmas morning F They thought I'd outgrown them G C They could read it on my face F G C I wanted to leave but my face... F G Had an appointment to keep C G Am with the fist of some young freak F G C That's why I wear this scar beneath my eye F G Am Summer Job tending lawns for old men F G CAm who sit round predicting weather with their bones F G sticks and stones are more akin C G Am to what lies underneath their skin F G C and their souls cling on to that skeleton F and if i had a dollar G C for everytime i shoulda been paid F G C Then i would have been paid F G but their meagre money couldnt buy C G Am the blue out of the sky F G C or downpay the common day to stay away break F G Am some weeks before the whirl began F G Am i drifted back to my hometown F G to all the blessed, to me a curse C G Am to the pioneers who got there first F G C stay in the ground for if i come back again F G to all the soul folks swaying pines C G Am the shoes hanging on power lines F i keep you here G C for if i come back again.