The Road To Kaintuck chords by Johnny Cash

• Capo on 2nd

Key: G

🎸 Intro:

1   2   3   4 | 1   2   3   4

G       C   G | G       D   G
G       C   G | G       D   G


🎸 Chorus:
G
We're goin' west to Kaintuck down the road to Moccasin Gap
                    C
Down the wilderness road
    G            C         G
The Dug Road the old Reedy Creek Road
    C            G
The road down to Troublesome
    D                     G
The road through Moccasin Gap

Narration, 🎸 Verse 1:
G        C G                   D         G  G            C G          D     G
          There was a time when going way out West meant going to Kaintuck
G             C          G    D               G
The dark and bloody ground as Indians called it
G            C           G              G    D              G
Indians wars were ragin' and men like Daniel Boone and Michael Stoner
G                  C      G        G         D        G
Came down the wilderness road like countless families did
G          C       G                             G    D      G
Through a place in south West Virginia called Big Moccasin Gap

G    C G G     D G

G    C G                            G       D           G
      It's a hot day in '73 and this is my wife and my kids with me
G              C      G                 G              D         G
Daniel Boone lost his boy the other day, "young Jim Boone is dead twenty miles away"
G    C G                                 G     D               G
      The wagons turn and went back home, even Daniel couldn't make it alone
G                  C      G   G         D               G
I guess probably Daniel could but he stopped awhile in Castlewood



G D G       A

Middle 8:
(Embrace the key change!)

A
Well if you love your wife and love your baby man
           D
You better turn them wagons back as soon as you
can
      A
Ev'ry Injun in these hills has gone berserk
                       E              A
And you're never gonna make it to Kaintuck


A            G Key changes back:


🎸 Chorus:
G
We're goin' west to Kaintuck down the road to Moccasin Gap
                    C
Down the wilderness road
    G            C         G
The Dug Road the old Reedy Creek Road
    C            G
The road down to Troublesome
    D                     G
The road through Moccasin Gap

🎸 Outro:
                 C         G
The Dug Road the old Reedy Creek Road
    C            G
The road down to Troublesome
    D                     G
The road through Moccasin Gap


G      C   G   G      D   G   (X2)

G              G      D   G   (X2)
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