Wide Open Spaces

Chords

Standard

D            G            D             G
Who doesn't know what I'm talking about,

D                 G                 D             
Who,s never left home who's never struck out,

           G                         D
To find a dream and a life of their own,
 
G                                   A
A place in the clouds a foundation of stone.



D          G                 D               G
Many precede and many will follow,

D                G               D             
A young girls dreams no longer hollow,

               G                   D
It takes the shape of a place out west,

         G                        A
What it holds for her she hasn't yet guessed,






She needs,

D           G      A
Wide open spaces,

D                      G         A
Room to make her big mistakes,

D               G       A
She needs new faces,

D            G   A
She knows the high stakes



D                  G         D        G           
She traveled this road as a child,

D                 G                D         G  
Wide-eyed and grinning she never tired,

             G                             D
But now she won't be coming back with the rest,

              G                         A
If these are life lessons, she'll take this test



Chorus


D                   G                   D               G           
As her folks drive away her dad yells "check the oil",

D                    G                    D              
Moms stares out the window and says "I'm leaving my girl",

             G                          D    
She says "it didn't seem all that long ago,

           G                          A
When she stood there and let her own folks know"



Chorus