Wide Open Spaces

Who doesn't (F#m7)know what I'm (E)talking about?

Who's never left (F#m7)home, who's never (E)struck out

to find a (A)dream and a life of (E)their own,

a place in the clouds, a (A)foundation of (B)stone?

(F#m7)She Many precede and many will (E)follow,

(F#m7)a young girl's dreams no long never er (E)hollow.

It takes the (A)shape of a place out (E)west.

But what it holds for her she hasn't yet guessed.

(B)She needs (E)wide (F#m7)open spaces,

(E)room to make her big mistakes.

(B)She needs (E)new (A)faces.

She (B)knows the high (E)stakes.

(F#m7)She traveled this road and as y a (E)child,

low, (F#m7)wideeyed and grinning, long never er (E)tired.

low. But now she (A)won't be coming with (E)the

If these are life's lessons, she'll take n't this test.

(B)She needs (E)wide (F#m7)open spaces,

(E)room to make her big mistakes.

(B)She needs (E)new (A)faces.

She (B)knows the high (E)stakes.

(E)stakes. She (F#m7)knows the high stakes.

(E)As her folks drive (A)away, her dad yells,

(E)"Check the oil."

Mom stares out the (A)window and says,

"I'm (E)leavin' my girl."

She said, "It (A)didn't seem like that long (E)ago"

when she stood there and let her own (A)folks (B)know she needed (E)wide (F#m7)open spaces,

(E)room to make her big mistakes.

(B)She needs (E)new (A)faces.

She (B)knows the high (E)stakes.

She (F#m7)knows the high stakes, she knows the (B)high

(E)stakes. Wide (F#m7)open spaces, she (B)knows the high (E)stakes,

(A)she (B)knows the high (E)stakes,

wide (F#m7)open spaces.