Down The Road By The Way Chords
Down The Road By The Way by Billy Joe Shaver is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords G, C, D and Cadd9. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
INTRO: G
C D G Cadd9
Well it's down the road and up the hill and just around the bend
G D
Pick 'em and put 'em down and pick 'em up again
C D G Cadd9
And it sets me into wonderin' what it's really all about
G D G
Fightin' for the things we know we'll always be without
C
Down the road by the way
G
Where the laughin' waters play
D
'Cross the ribbon-wavin' sand
G
We go walkin' hand in hand
C
Nothin' old and nothin' new
G
Nothin' special there to do
D
In those good old yesterdays
G
Down the road by the way
C D G Cadd9
Well it's light and lovely Brenda comin' cool across the waves
G D
Floatin' over rows she helped me hoe in yesterdays
C D G Cadd9
And it's me whose thirsty now for all that sweet milk gone to waste
G D
Somewhere on the road of no returnin' yesterdays
C D G Cadd9
Well it's down the road and up the hill and just about the bend
G D
Pick 'em and put 'em down and pick 'em up again
C D G Cadd9
And it sets me into wonderin' what it's really all about
G D
Fightin' for the things we know we'll always be without
OUTRO: C D G Cadd9 G D
C D G Cadd9 G D
C D G Cadd9 G D G