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Carry Me Over Tab

by Arlo Guthrie


Carry Me Over
words and music by Arlo Guthrie 

                                                         
There's a tavern up on the roadside   I must be coming into town
                                                           
The moon must be in Aries   Because the truck ain't slowing down
                                                     
Pulled back on the throttle   I've been doing that all day
                                                 
Looking ahead for a right-hand turn   To carry me away

                                                          
There's times for understanding    It don't seem like one of those
                                                          
The times are too demanding    When you're hanging by your nose
                                                         
So why don't you just get out of here   And leave me here to pray
                                                                   
That one of these mornings the sun's going to rise    And carry me away

CHORUS:
                                        
Carry me over the highway   Carry me over the sky
                                                 
Carry me over the loneliness   That I'm feeling here tonight

                                                                      
You know I'm feeling just like a riptide    And I'm feeling a little scared
                                                
A twisted maze of old highways     Nobody has repaired
                                                         
It ain't nothing that can't be handled    Like an actor in a play
                                                                     
Who becomes enraged, jumps from the stage   And gets a little carried away


                                                  
Now all of your highways   Don't mean much to me no more
                                                           
I've been on all of your highway roads   Of that you can be sure
                                                                 
But I still get lost on all of them roads    I can't seem to find my way
                                                   
I know there's one out there somewhere  To carry me away


(CHORUS)