Hyland Brian - Im Afraid To Go Home guitar chord

Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:34:18 -0700

From: Collins Crapo

Subject: h/hyland_brian/im_afraid_to_go_home.crd

I'M AFRAID TO GO HOME

written by Gary Geld and Peter Udell

performed by Brian Hyland

tab transcribed by Collins Crapo

Pattern 1:

Em / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4

I'm afraid to go home, I'm afraid to go home

              Am                        Em

Worries on my mind, afraid of what I'll find

Will my family be gone? I'm afraid to go home

              Am                       Em

Back to Tennessee, afraid of what I'll see

Pattern 2:

D7     G                                Em

  As I walk down this dusty road, got a heart with a heavy load

          Am                     D7        G

Ain't one thing that's the same,   so much sorrow and pain

D7        G                            Em

  Headin' home in a single file, every inch is a quarter mile

            Am           D7           G

Ain't heard nobody sing,   ain't seen one livin' thing

(in pattern 1):

Someone's waitin' for me, honey sweet as candy

Wanna hold her tight; Lord, make her be all right

Maybe 'round on next bend, all the ashes of land

Valleys will be green instead of what I've seen

(in pattern 2):

I'm afraid for the scrubby pine, for the sweet honeysuckle vine

I'm afraid for my home, for the fields that I roamed

Kick along down a homeward road, and your heart's gotta take the load

I'm afraid to go home, I'm afraid to go home

Em

Sherman's been in my town, burned it all to the ground

                  Am                          Em

Now there's not a tree 'tween Memphis and the Sea

                  Am   (decelerate...)        Em

Now there's not a tree 'tween Memphis and the Sea