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Guitar: standard tuning, capo IV
Intro SOL SOL(F#) DO SOL DO SOL RE RE(G) RE RE(E)
Notes: use Travis picking style, playing individual notes
in parentheses along with chords on either first
or sixth string. The D(F#) chord is the usual D
major chord with an F# added on the sixth string;
likewise for G(F#).
SOL SOL(F#) DO SOL
You've long been on the open road,
DO SOL RE(F#)
You've been sleeping in the rain,
SOL SOL(F#) DO SOL
From dirty words and muddy cells
DO SOL RE(F#)
Your clothes are smeared and stained,
SOL SOL(F#) DO SOL
But the dirty words and muddy cells
DO SOL RE(F#)
Will soon be hid in shame
SOL DO SOL
So only stop to rest yourself
LAm LAm(G) RE(F#) RE(G) RE(E)
Till you are off again
Chorus
SOL DO
So take off your thirsty boots
SOL DO
and stay for a while,
SOL SOL(F#) MIm
Your feet are hot and weary,
LAm LAm(G) RE(F#)
from a dusty mile,
SOL DO
And maybe I can make you laugh,
SOL DO
maybe I can try,
SOL SOL(F#)
I'm just looking for the evening,
LAm LAm(G) RE(F#) SOL DO RE7 SOL DO RE7
the morning in your eye.
So tell me of the ones you saw
As far as you could see
Across the plain from field to town
A-marching to be free
And of the rusted prison gates
That tumbled by degree
Like laughing children, one by one,
They look like you and me
Chorus
(Harmonica interlude).
I know you are no stranger down
The crooked rainbow trails
From dancing cliff-edged shattered sills
Of slandered, shackled jails
For the voices drift up from below
As the walls they're being scaled
Yes, all of this, and more, my friend,
Your song shall not be failed.
Chorus
Yes, you've long been on the open road
You've been sleeping in the rain
From dirty words and muddy cells
Your clothes are smeared and stained
But the dirty words, the muddy cells,
They'll soon be judged insane
So only stop to rest yourself
'til you are off again.
Chorus
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