Racecar - A Place Of My Own

      [Intro] 
Am

[Verse]        
C       G
The pause of the morning, it gave me a chill,
Am                      G       Am
& I knew I would soon have to decide,
        C       G
Tired of living, just to pay off my bills,
        Am      G       Am
So I packed up without a goodbye.
                C       G
I found myself a place to stay out from the cold,
        Am              G       Am
Where the air & the fishing was free,
        C       G
& my crazy ways I did not have to hide,
        Am      G       Am      G
On the banks of the black swanee.

[Chorus]             
   Am
I only wanted a place of my own,
        G               Am
Some land & a garden to grow,
G               Am              C
But in the end I could not dance alone,
        G       Em              Am
So I packed up & headed back home.

[Verse] 
C               G
I traded the quiet for the roar of the crowds,
        Am      G       Am
The dawn for the big city lights,
        C               G
I got myself a job @ a bank here downtown,
Am              G       Am      G
& I drank away my lonely nights.

[Chorus]                
     Am
How I dreamt of that place of my own,
G                       Am
Where I could remain as I am,
        G               Am              C
& I dreaded the way that I headed back home,
                G\Em            Am
When the solitude I could not stand?

[Verse]         
C               G
Then fate found a girl with the moon in her eyes,
        Am      G       Am
& a beauty of likes never seen,
                        C       G
But her heart was a treasure to never be mine,
        Am      G       Am      G
& she left me in sheer misery.

[Chorus]                      
                                Am
Take me back to that place of my own,
        G               Am      G
Where no I can hear a man cry.
                Am      C
I do not care if I must die alone,
        G       Em      Am
For I know now to not compromise.
G       Em              Am
I know now to not compromise.