D                                     G
        It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas
          D                          A
        Closing time another day is done
                D                                  G     E
        When a boy walks in the door and points a pistol
                  D        A                   D
        He can't find a job,Lord he's found a gun

[Verse 2]
      D                                          G
        He pulls it off with no trace of confrontation
                 D                                 A
        Then he lets the old man run out in the street
               D                                        G     E
        Even though he knows they'll come with guns a blazing
                D           A                 D
        And already he can feel that great relief

[Chorus]
      D                            C  G
        Oh how many travelers get weary
         D                                     A
        Bearing both their burdens and their scars
         D                                       C  G
        Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining
          D              A              D
        Fly like eagles out among the stars

[Verse 3]
      D                                  G
        He pictures the arrival of the cruisers
                  D                           A
        Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes
             D                                       G    E
        He knows that when they're shooting at this loser
                   D              A               D
        They'll be aiming at the demons in their lives

[Verse 4]
      D                                      G
        The evening news it carries all the details
            D                            A
        He dies in every living room in town
                D                        G     E
        At his home a bottle's thrown in anger
                 D          A                       D
        And his father cries we'll never live this down

[Chorus]
      D                            C  G
        Oh how many travelers get weary
         D                                     A
        Bearing both their burdens and their scars
         D                                       C G
        Don't you think they'd love to start all over
              D              A              D
        And fly like eagles out among the stars
                         A              G
        Fly like eagles out among the stars