The Traveling Kind Chords
The Traveling Kind by Emmylou Harris is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Am, G7 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C Am G7 F G7 C
We don't all die young to save our spark
Am G7 F
From the ravag-es of time
Am G7 F G7 C
But the first and last to leave their mark
F C Am G7 C
Some-day be-come the traveling kind
Am G7 F G7 C
In the wind are names of po-ets past
Am G7 F
Some were friends of yours and mine
Am G7 F G7 C
And to those un-sung we lift our glass
F C Am G7 C
May their songs be-come the traveling kind
Am G7 F G7 C
We were born to brave this tilted world
Am G7 F
With our hearts laid on the line
Am G7 F G7 C
Be it way crossed boy or red dirt girl
F C Am G7 C
The song be-comes the traveling kind
Am G7 F G7 C
There are mountains worth their weight in gold
Am G7 F
Mere mortals dare not climb
Am G7 F Am C
Come ye tipsy sainted sin-ners both
F C Am G7 C
And claim them for the traveling kind
Am G7 F G7 C
When the music slowly starts to fade
Am G7 F
Into the light's last soft decline
Am G7 F C
Let us lie down in that evening shade
F C Am G7 Am
And rest a mooing the traveling kind
F C Am G7 C
And the song goes on for the traveling kind