Never Got Off The Ground 
by Alison Krauss and Union Station 
 
Tabbed by Dan Craggs (dan(remove)craggs(at)gmail(dot)com) 
 
CAPO 3 
 
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My father was a farmer, 
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but his head was in the sky. 
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He worked every day but Sunday 
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till the day he died. 
 
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He prayed for rain and thunder, 
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and listened for the sound. 
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In the dryers he went under, 
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he never got off the ground. 
 
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We all dream when we're younger 
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that we will to great things. 
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Me, I used to have a hunger. 
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to wear a pilot's wings. 
 
 
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But the circles that I ran in 
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turned my head around, 
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and the planes I had my plans in 
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never got off the ground. 
 
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Don't raise your hopes; 
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you hear so many say 
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"The higher they get, 
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the closer they are to fly-ing away." 
 
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Fly high away! 
 
 
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Don't raise your hopes; 
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you hear so many say 
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"The higher they get, 
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the closer they are to fly-ing away." 
 
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They say they're but for fortune, 
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is the way it would have been 
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if we could take a bigger portion, 
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and fill our hands again. 
 
 
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You see them on the sidewalks 
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in the parks all over town; 
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those who've taken flight, 
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but never got off the ground. 
 
 
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