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Guitar: Hold On To Me Babe (Tom Paxton cover) (Including lyrics and chords)

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Channel: threelegsoman · 2008 · Music

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Another of Paxton's contemplative love songs most likely written when he was on tour.

Hold On To Me Babe
Tom Paxton 
No capo 

G                                                                     C                              G     
As my aching head keeps begging for a sleep that will not come,
                                                                 D       
I rise and walk the morning streets again,
            G                                                      C                                G      
I keep wonderin' how you're doin' and I wonder where you are
                                    D                                    G     
And I know I'll be all right but I don't know when.

G                  C               G             D              
Hold on to me babe, wherever you may be,
G                  C              G                    D G     
Hold on to me babe, I'm with you always.

There was something deep inside you like a secret burning pain
In a prison where you would not let me go.
I was sure we'd find an answer till I woke and found you gone,
Now just what it was I guess I'll never know.

I keep hangin' on to somethin', but I don't know what it is,
But at least I know the sound of my own name.
And I work as hard as ever and I see the same old friends,
But there's somethin' deep inside and it ain't the same.

As my aching head keeps begging for a sleep that will not come,
I rise and walk the morning streets again,
I keep wonderin' how you're doin' and I wonder where you are
And I know I'll be all right but I don't know when.

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