Lawrence Ks(Chords)

	        

Intro 

Verse 
G 
Dirt roads and dryland farming might be the death of me 
      C                         G 
But I can't leave this world be hind 
   G 
My debts are not like prisons where there's hope of getting free 
      C                         G 
And I can't leave this world be hind 

D                                C 
I've been from here to Lawrence, Kansas 
D                           C 
Trying to leave my state of mind 
D                          C 
Trying to leave this awful sadness 
                                G 
But I can't leave this world be hind 

         G 
South of Delia there's a patch out back by the willow trees 
      C                         G 
And I can't leave this world be hind 
       G 
It's a fenced-in piece of nothin' where I hear voices on my knees 
      C                         G 
And I can't leave this world be hind 

D                            C 
Some prophecies are self-ful filling 
D                           C 
I've had to work for all of mine 
D                                  C 
Better times will come to me, God- willing 
                                  G 
Cause I can't leave this world be hind 

     G 
This world must be frightening, everybody's on the run 
      C                         G 
And I can't leave this world be hind 
   G 
My house is a wooden one and it's built on a wooden one 
        C                         G 
Seems I can't leave this world be hind 

D                                  C 
Preacher says that when the master calls us 
D                           C 
He's gonna give us wings to fly 
D                            C 
My wings are made of hay and corn husks 
                               G 
So I can't leave this world be hind
	        

Written by Josh Ritter