I Should Have Been Home *

Blaze Foley

 

 

VERSE 1

 

 Am                    F                         

Saw a dancin' young lady, who worked in a bar...

 Am                    E                          

A dozen lone rangers, don't know who they are...

 Am                    F                         

The waitress was spinnin', my head was ajar...

 E                    Am                        

And I should have been home with you...

 Am                                            

 

 

VERSE 2

 

Saw a reelin' old drunk man, dancin' around...

Thought his gray whiskers, still must have been brown...

Ida Lupino, wouldn't keep her dress down...

I should have been home with you...

 

INTERLUDE

 

VERSE 3

 

The band rock and rolled, but it wasn't the best...

Nearly all of them, all sound like the rest...

Some girls look pretty, but you were the best...

That's why I came home with you...

 

VERSE 4

 

Got home about daylight, I been gone too long...

Woke up at eleven, and saw you were gone...

So I drank lots of coffee, and wrote you this song...

I wish I'd have been home with you...

 

 E                    Am                        

I wish I'd have been home with you...

I wish I'd have been home with you...