Wichita

Writer:  Gillian Welch (Irving Music, BMI)
Artist:  Tim & Mollie O'Brien
Album:   Away Out On The Mountain
Key:     Bb



She went back to Wichita
She went back to her Ma and Pa
Reckon I saw her next to my truck
Pumping gas with the car packed up

We talked as neighbors will
There waiting for the tanks to fill
We talked about nothing, how it might snow
How far she had to go

    Going back where the grass grows tall
    And the fields burn in the fall
    You can still hear the night birds call
    Back in Wichita

She came in eighty five
She came here as a July bride
But it never got easy, never got rich
Ain't got much of what she came here with

Good times have all been spent
She ain't broken but she's badly bent
There's nothing she wants here, nothing that shines
She's made up her mind

    Going back where the grass grows tall
    And the fields burn in the fall
    You can still hear the night birds call
    Back in Wichita

        She says, for all my time well I ain't got much to show
        You can tell that man of mine and anyone who wants to know

    Going back where the grass grows tall
    And the fields burn in the fall
    You can still hear the night birds call
    Back in Wichita

    Going back where the grass grows tall
    And the fields burn in the fall
    You can still hear the night birds call
    Back in Wichita

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