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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:47:38 -0500
From: "Suzan Verner" <my_takamine@hotmail.com>
Subject: Nowhere Road by Steve Earle

Song - Nowhere Road
Artist - Steve Earle
Album - Ultimate Earle

Key G# (capo on 1st Fret and play in G)
Intro: G(strum) (notes)  F E D  E(hammer on to F) B(hammer on to C) A B A   
G(strum) (2 X)

There's a road, in Oklahoma
                       F            C
Straighter than a preacher
                   G
Longer than a memory

And it goes, forever onward
                  F             C
Been a good teacher
                          G
For a lot of country boys like me


I push that load from here to someday
                        F          C                               G
I'll push as long as I'm alive, but I don't know how long I'll last

Cause it's just a road, it ain't no highway
                         F                     C
I'm blowin' by the double five
                       G
I know I'm going way too fast


Chorus:
D         C                         G                                D
I been down this road just searching' for the end
           C                         G                             D
It don't go nowhere, it just brings you back again
                              G
Leaves you lonely and cold, standin' on the shoulder
                                      F                         C
But you've come too far to go back home
                              G
So you're walkin' on a nowhere road

(do intro notes once here)
G
Some folks say, if you keep rollin'
                          F                   C
And keep it on the yellow line
                           G
It'll take you on the big highway

But there's a toll to pay, if you're going

                          F                     C
The keeper of the gate is blind
                            G
So you better be prepared to pay

Repeat Intro