[Intro ]G C G C (x2) 

Verse 
G                         C             G 
Long as I'm alive, I will be my father's son. 
C                 G             D 
Go from town to town to find my way. 
G                               C                   G 
Playing this guitar and singing songs about these roads, 
C                      G            D 
I went down from the time I was a child. 
G  
There was good hearted women. 
           C                   G 
There was sunshine.  There was rain. 
     C                  G                  D   
The whole world changed around me - I'm the same. 
G                                  C             G 
Tomorrow is a cloudy shade of all I've done 'til now. 
          C                 G           D    
Drinking all my beer and whiskey 'for I go to lay me down. 



[Refrão]
C                                       G 
The road will give you pleasure. Oh the road will bring you pain. 
    D                                C             G 
The truth of life gets tested as you go along your way. 
C                                   G 
Days turn quick to night time every hour on the run. 
 D                        C             G 
At 27 years, Lord, give me just another one. 

Intro (x2) 

Verse 
G                        C                 G 
Got a little lady back at home who misses me. 
C                           D 
Freckles in her eyes - her lips so soft and sweet. 
      G                                    C           G 
She tells me how she loves me.  How she hates to see me go. 
  C               G           D 
I miss her every hour I am out here on the road. 

Intro (x2) 

Bridge 
Em                     C                   D                  Em 
In the first year, I was learning.  In the fifth, I joined a band. 
 Em                        C                  D                  Em 
In the tenth, I played for Jesus.  Four years down, worked for the man. 
Em                        C             D             Em 
In the fifteenth, was a rock and roller rebel with a dream. 
Em                        C                  D     
Twenty-something's got to give.  I've got to do this now for me. 

Chorus 

Same as intro