Little Road Chords
Little Road by Cheryl Wheeler is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords C, F, Em, G, Am and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C F Em F Em C
F Em
How can there be trouble in this world?
F G
With the colour in these hills
F G
The blue October sky
F C F G
This little road that winds along the river
C F Em
Dusty barns and tractors in the fields
F G
And families sit in front yards
F G
Or stand outside the churches
F G
Kids are throwing footballs
F G
And pulling carts of pumpkins
F C F G C
And the morning sun is sparkling on the water
F Em
How can there be such trouble in this world?
F G
Where the mountains roll so gently
F G
Deer graze on the hillsides
F G
Birds chat on the phone lines
F C F G
The whole wide world's a prayer for Sunday morning
C F Em
The geese inspect the stubble in the fields
F G
And all along the roadside
F G
Families stop to wonder
F G
At the new October morning
F G
And a red tailed hawk is circling
F C
And a father hugs his daughter
F C Am F
And an old man holds the car door for his wife to come and see
C F
Then they turn and smile at me
Dm G Am
How can there be such trouble in this world?
F C F G
I know of course, I know, that this is not the only picture
F C F ~ G
I don't of course, I don't, know what to do
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