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Date:  June 19, 1999

Album: Party Doll And Other Favorites

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Note:  Sometimes radio station will speed up or slow down songs in order

For them to fit in a specific time. This happened to this song.  I'm

Reasonably sure that this is the key.



     ALMOST HOME        Mary Chapin Carpenter



F#                                                  B

Saw my life this morning lying at the bottom of a drawer

F#                                                           B

All this stuff I'm saving, God knows, what all this junk is for

     G#m           E                F#            B

And whatever I believed in This is all I have to show

         G#m                  E

What the hell were all the reasons 

F#   

For holding on for such dear life here's where I let go



CHORUS:

           B               E                B

I'm not running, I'm not hiding, I'm not reaching

      F#                                    B

I'm resting in the arms of the great white open

                E             G#m F#    B  

Gonna pull my soul in and I'm al-most home  2.) yeah yeah yeah





F#                                                   B

And I saw you this morning you were staring back at me

F#                                                              B

From an ancient photograph stuck between some letters and some keys

           G#m         E            F#               B

And I was lost for a moment in the ache of old good-byes

         G#m              E

Sometime all that we can know is

F#

Is there's no such thing as no regrets Well baby It's alright.



Chorus, "yeah, yeah" lead,

F#

Is there's no such thing as no regrets Well baby It's alright.



Chorus,  to ending



ENDING:

        G#m F#    B           G#m F#   B    

And I'm al-most home  And I'm al-most home



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