Barton Carroll - Those Days Are Gone And My Heart Is Breaking

      Arranged by: oliviahaley
Key: D major

[Verse]
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Hey Danny Boy, I was thinking of our crew.
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But think just makes me sad, and that's why I write to you.
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How do you do?
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There's been years between us.
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Didn't we have big ideas when our school was done?
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We'd leave our smaller minds and move out to Oregon.
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But I was the only one 
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who went the road less taken.
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I met a girl and I swept her off her feet.
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Made her promises I never meant to keep.
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There's a mean streak in me.
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Inside a storm was raging.
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She had a form like no other girl in town.
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We had a baby boy, but I couldn't stick around.
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I couldn't be tied down, that's just the way I was thinking.

[Chorus]
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Those days are gone, and my heart is aching.

[Verse]
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Thought I deserved so much more than work could pay.
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I drove containers to BC from Monterrey.
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It was a long way 
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on pins and needles.
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She wrote me letters, but I never opened one.
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She met some other man and gave his name to my son.
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I guess the damage is done, 
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and there's no way I can fake it.

[Chorus]
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Those days are gone, and my heart is breaking.

[Bridge]
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Always thought my heart to be a dark horse,
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laying low 'til race day came along.
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Lately my heart's feeling like a dart board, 
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and that's not something I had planned at all.

[Verse]
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Danny, there's no limit to the steps I could retrace.
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But I got a job cooking eggs at my friend's place.
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It's no disgrace, 
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to make an honest living.
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And if it makes you blue, I hope I did not dwell.
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And if this gets to you, I hope it finds you well.
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There's not much else.
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Out here it's been raining.

[Outro]
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Those days are here, and my heart is waiting.

[Ending]
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