200 Miles Away 
 Aaron Traffas 
  
 Intro 
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 Verse 
 D 
 I hear the coyotes calling 
 G                A 
 Their melancholy pierces the night 
 D 
 I feel those wheat fields waving 
 G                         A 
 Calling me with their collective spite 
 G 
 I know tomorrow morning 
 D                  G 
 Fate will dictate my part 
 Em 
 But I never believed in fate 
  	 A 
 Because I know the coyote’s heart 
   
 Chorus 
 D 	  	   G 
 You’re 200 miles away 
  	  	  	   D 
 On the other side of the state 
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 And I’m going round and round in a wheat field 
  	    A 
 Trying to beat the rain 
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 The sun goes down; it won’t matter much 
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 We’ll keep on cutting ‘till the straw gets tough 
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 I’ll be free when we get through 
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 I'll head back to town and back to you 
  
  
 Outside the chaff is blowing 
 Inside my muscles ache 
 Outside the sun is setting 
 In it I see your face 
 I’ll be damned if I leave 
 Before the harvest moon assumes a crescent shape 
 I’d hit the road with the hammer down 
 If only I could these fetters break 
  
 I see the storm clouds rolling 
 Oklahoma's gift: the rain 
 I see the weather, unlike you, 
 Never minded the grain 
 The squall line across the field moves 
 Just like your life crossed mine 
 As I roll the tarp I think 
 I should have been done in time