Sam Stone

by John Prine

Date Added
8/9/2025
**Chords:**
   C   G   Am   F

   C                   G
Sam Stone came home
             Am              F
To his wife and family
   C                  G
After serving in the conflict
                 Am             F
Overseas, and the time that he served
   C                G
Was a long time
                     Am             F
But the pain was real, and Sam Stone
              G
Tried to heal

   C                   G
But the drugs that he took
                    Am             F
Made him feel like he was free
   C                  G
But the price of that freedom
                  Am                F
Was a heavy price to pay for him
   C               G
And he lost his way
                       Am                F
But he just wanted to find a way to stay

   C                G
Sam Stone came home
                    Am                  F
To a world he didn't know
   C                   G
And the only thing he wanted
                   Am             F
Was to find a place to go
   C               G
But the shadows followed him
                 Am                F
And the pain was never far away
   C                 G
Sam Stone came home
                 Am           F
But he left a part of him to stay