Wichita
Gillian Welch, 2001
Key of C - capo 5 play G chords
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(5)
She went back to Wichita. She went back to her ma and pa.
Reckon I saw her next to my truck, Pumping gas with the car packed up.
We talked as neighbors will. They're waitin' for the tank to fill.
Well you talk about nothin', how it might snow. How far she had to go.
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Goin' back where the grass grows tall,
And the fields burn in the fall.
You can still hear the night birds call, Back in Wichita.
She came here in '85. Came here as a July bride,
But it never got easy, never got rich. Ain't got much but what she came here with.
Good times have all been spent. She ain't broken but she's badly bent.
There's nothin' she wants here, nothin' that shines. She's made up her mind.
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She says for all my time, Well, I ain't got much to show.
You can tell that man of mine and anyone who wants to know.