Long I Ride chords by The Special Consensus

Chords with lyrics

It's long I ride for the little I gain.

Verse 1:
   G+G  C majorC      G+G        E minorEm       C majorC
Its rye grass in the winter time, and flowers in the spring,
   G+G      C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
But Texas in the summer is my own suffering.
G+G   C majorC    G+G        E minorEm     C majorC
I went up on Jackson hill at a diner I sat down,
    G+G        C majorC        D MajorD       G+G
And I waved at every stranger, just to move the air around.
   G+G   C majorC      G+G       E minorEm        C majorC
Hey when I left that Brooklyn girl, I never thought it through,
     G+G           C majorC      D MajorD         G+G
She had silk brocade in the bedroom, and a job that payed for two.
     G+G    C majorC     G+G       E minorEm       C majorC
I think I'll get down that old guitar and see what I may find,
     G+G        C majorC       D MajorD      G+G
made a dollar off some lawyer on the number seven line.

Chorus:
      E minorEm      D MajorD    G+G
Its long I ride for the little I gain.

Verse 2:
    G+G     C majorC     G+G            E minorEm       C majorC
These New York Folks will treat you kind, If your wallets in your hand,
    G+G           C majorC        D MajorD          G+G
But a six string on your shoulder, might as well be the devils brand.
      G+G   C majorC    G+G        E minorEm         C majorC
Well they put themselves above you, but for all that strut and brag,
   G+G          C majorC      D MajorD         G+G
I'd trade every brig on wall street for one black mountain rag.

Verse 3:
  G+G    C majorC    G+G    E minorEm      C majorC       G+G        C majorC
I rode back to my boyhood, If I could only go, Theres a little girl that stole
          D MajorD         G+G
my heart and I'd think she'd like to know.
     G+G    C majorC    G+G        E minorEm      C majorC
Well the road it goes but one way, and the only goal in sight,
    G+G             C majorC       D MajorD         G+G
Is to make a little more in the day time, then I drank down at night.
      E minorEm       D MajorD    G+G
Its long I ride, for the little I gain.

Bridge:
   G+G                         E minorEm
They say the ? girls are fair, and they all sing right on key,
                       D MajorD       G+G
But I went down and I never found, one that sings as good as me.

Verse 4:
   G+G      C majorC    G+G        E minorEm        C majorC
They say thats theres a wondrous land for any good man that dies,
    G+G         C majorC     D MajorD        G+G
and if its got drinking women, well then I'll be surprised.

Chorus:
       E minorEm       D MajorD    G+G
It's long I ride, for the little I gain,
       E minorEm       D MajorD    G+G
It's long I ride, for the little I gain,
      E minorEm  D MajorD   G+G