[ti:Long Time Gone(Album Version)] [ar:Dixie Chicks] [al:Home] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Long Time Gone - The Chicks [00:23.54]Daddy sits on a' front porch swinging [00:26.02]Looking out on a vacant field [00:28.65]Used to be filled with burley tobacca [00:31.23]Now he knows it never will [00:34.54]My Brothers found work in Indiana [00:37.28]My Sisters a nurse at the old folks home [00:40.59]Mama still cooking too much for supper [00:42.83]And me I've been a long time gone [00:45.46]Been a long time gone [00:48.26]No I ain't hoed a row since I don't know when [00:51.62]Long time gone [00:53.86]And it ain't coming back again [01:07.35]Deliah plays that old church piano [01:09.58]Sitting out on her daddy's farm [01:12.70]She always thought that we'd be together [01:15.26]Lord I never meant to do her harm [01:18.58]Said she could hear me singin' in the choir [01:21.48]Me I heard another song [01:24.08]I caught wind and hit the road runnin' [01:27.15]And Lord I've been a long time gone [01:29.65]Been a long time gone [01:32.18]Lord I ain't had a prayer since I don't know when [01:35.54]Long time gone [01:38.00]And it ain't comin' back again [02:03.52]Now me I went to Nashville [02:05.27]Tryin' to beat the big deal [02:06.64]Playin' down on Broadway [02:08.02]Gettin' there the hard way [02:09.58]Living from a tip jar [02:10.89]Sleeping in my car [02:12.14]Hocking my guitar [02:13.32]Yeah I'm gonna be a star [02:20.49]Now me and Deliah singing every Sunday [02:23.23]Watching the children and the garden grow [02:26.53]We listen to the radio to hear what's cookin' [02:29.47]But the music ain't got no soul [02:31.84]Now they sound tired but they don't sound Haggard [02:34.52]They've got money but they don't have Cash [02:37.65]They got Junior but they don't have Hank [02:40.25]I think I think I think [02:42.43]The rest is a long time gone [02:45.11]No I ain't hit the roof since I don't know when [02:49.09]Long time gone [02:51.39]And it ain't coming back [02:52.70]I said a long time gone [02:55.62]No I ain't honked the horn since I don't know when [02:58.80]Long time gone [03:00.86]And it ain't coming back again [03:14.26]I said a long time long time long time gone [03:20.68]Well it's been a long time [03:25.13]Long time long time long time gone [03:31.73]Oh it's been a long time gone [03:37.23]Long time long time long time gone [03:42.04]Yeah yeah