Tuning: Standard
Difficulty: Novice
Capo at 5th, transpose +5,(or leave like this to sing with baritones!)
Intro: DBm x4
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Ward Bond, was his sidekick Rowdy Yates?
DBmDBm
Drove that wagon train out West, right along this interstate
GEmGEm
Cross the high plains of Kansas to the Colorado line
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Spent a lot of sleepless nights 'round the campfire, they had mountains on their minds
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DBmDBm
Those high plains people, they're different somehow
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You spent your life leaning into a hard wind, I guess you're less likely to take a bow
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All these stories buried out here, they're calling to me
DBmDBm
Like the earthquakes in California like the hills back in Tennessee
AEm - D/F# - G
I gotta circle back, touch something near
DAEm - D/F# - G
Find out which way to go to get on out of here
ABm - G
I lost my thread and I've lost some time
DAG (hold) DBm x2
But it takes a lot of ground for me to, change my mind
DBmDBm
Well it's 99 in Topeka, the wind is blowin' hot
DBmDBm
Blowin through my oldest daughter's hair with everything else I forgot
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I drove her out to college, drove back through an empty space
DBmDBm
Thinkin' back to when she was a baby, tryin' hard to see that face
AEm - D/F# - G
I gotta circle back, touch something near
DAEm - D/F# - G
Find out which way to go to get on out of here
ABm - G
I lost my thread and I've lost some time
DAG (hold) DBm x2
But it takes a lot of ground for me to, change my mind
(Solo over verse + chorus)
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Two kids up and at 'em, one more left at home
DBmDBm
She's a spark plug, a real fire cracker, and in four years she'll be gone
GEmGEm
They just blow through your life, like the wind on the plains
DBmDBm
Like the dust that covers everything, 'til the rivers fill with rain
AEm - D/F# - G
I gotta circle back, touch something near
DAEm - D/F# - G
Find out which way to go to get on out of here
ABm - G
I lost my thread and I've lost some time
DAG (hold) DBm x2
But it takes a lot of ground for me to, change my mind
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