fret Intro: Packed up my piano, and a suitcase full of clothes and went looking for some better place to hide Ride across the border, in a broken down Sedan with a bottle and a rifle on my mind On and on and on and on the miles stretch for hours the radio keeps spitting out the tune Every other song is just another tired rhythm another tired lovers tune It's a long long way back to Nashville where I come from, where I've been It's a long long way back to Nashville but I promise I will see you again Intro: Through the ice and fog this morning the sun is coming up I'm standing on the shores of the Hudson bay Over glass fired violet, silence, silence calling up the day And every man is an island, an island in his own special way there's a white ghost out on the water, the water with one good song and nothing else to say It's a long long way back to Nashville where I come from, where I've been It's a long long way back to Nashville but I promise I will see you again In heaven