The Boy That Just Went Wrong Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]There's a spe[Ab] cial little corn[G]er
in [C]every mother's heart
For that [G]dark, [Eb]wandering boy[D]
[Eb]who took the w[G]rong path
from the start
Though she loves the [Ab]others
[G]and she [C]helps them to grow strong
[D]Deep in[Eb]side [D]she cries
[Eb]for the boy [D]that j[G]ust went home
Early one [Ab]morn[G]ing,
he's [C]done when you get up
There's a [Eb]little note that's hard to read
in[G]side his coffee cup
Mama wipes her tears away
and [C]says he must be [Db]strong
And the [Eb]neighbors never asked
[D]abo[Eb]ut the[D] boy who just wen[G]t home
But up and down the gravel road
the [C]stories told were told
[C#]About the [Eb]one who
wasn't like the rest,
the [G]one who left home
Tired of the [Ab]hard work and
[C]tired of the farm
[Eb]Nobody can really blame
[D]the war that just wen[G]t on[Ab][C][C#]
[C][C#][C][Eb][G][Ab][Db]
[Eb][Ab][G]
A letter [Ab]here, a [G]letter there,
and [C]there's none at all
Mama [D]says she stares
[Eb]upon the [G]picture on the wall
And the children no longer ask
[C]what he's gone for
[Eb]Sadly he missed the party
when June the 4th [D]just [G]went on
Maybe in some [Ab]railroad [G]yard
[C]runnin' for his life
They [Eb]nev er locked the door
in case he [G]might come home some day
Maybe on some jailhouse floor
he's [C]cold and all alone
And I bet [Eb]it is all that's m[D]ade
for the boy that just [G]went home
And finally after years and years
of [C]a hurry and a make
Mama [Eb]sends the kids
to fetch [G]Papa from the hill
And prayers [Ab]in the kitchen
tell [G]the [C]words to let it out
[Eb]Papa takes the train
[D]to [Eb]fetch the boy that [C]just [G]went [Ab]wrong
[G][C][D][Eb][G]
[C][Db][C][Eb][D][Eb][G]
There's a small crowd at the station
on a [C]dark and dismal [Db]day
[C]Pap[Eb]a's eyes are rim[D]med with tea[Eb]rs
as [G]he steps off the [Ab]train[G]
When Mama sees the [Ab]basket
[G]she [C]just breaks down
And call[D]s f[Eb]or her da[D]rlin' boy,
the boy that just [G]went [Ab]wrong
[G]You can see them softly crying
as they [C]walk across the field
[G]When [Eb]they [D]reach the churchyard
[Eb]it's [G]there they quietly kneel
And the preacher says a few kind words
about [C]our eternal home
And [D]today he's come home to stay,
the boy that just [G]went home
guess today [D]he's gone home to stay,
the boy that just went home.
[G][Ab]