Indiana Road Chords
Indiana Road by Fred Eaglesmith is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Bb and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verse
C Bb F C
Well, me and the girl we had a little farm south of the river road.
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A little single shack and some cattle in the barn and we grew our own food.
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We didn't have any money but it never crossed our minds
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We grew to share and we were happy there just watching the years go by.
Verse
C Bb F C
Until one day I come home there was a big black car parked out of my back door
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And a government man with a fat cigar said we couldn't live there anymore
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Said they'd pay us for the land but never for the work we did
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And they were gonna turn it in to a holiday park and a drag-strip for the kids
Chorus
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I told him, I would meet him on the Indiana road with a gun in my hand but he never showed
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Said he couldn't bring himself to sink himself that low
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I told him, I would meet him on the Indiana road with a gun in my hand but he never showed
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He went back to Ottawa, Toronto or wherever it is they go
Verse
C Bb F C
Well we wired ahead and the girl's family said to come back to Calgary
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We decided that she would go on back there without me
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And I'll never forget those tears in her eyes as I held her face in my hand
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I turned around and I headed for town and I never looked back again
Chorus
C Bb F C
I told him, I would meet him on the Indiana road with a gun in my hand but he never showed
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Said he couldn't bring himself to sink himself that low
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I told him, I would meet him on the Indiana road with a gun in my hand but he never showed
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He went back to Ottawa, Toronto or wherever it is they go
Break
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Verse
C Bb F C
Now I live in an old Ford van at the end of a dead end road
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And the girl she stopped sending letters must be seven years or more
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Me, I spend a lot of time down on the Indiana ya know
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And I draw a bead but there ain't no need I don't shoot anymore
Chorus
C Bb F C
I told him, I would meet him on the Indiana road with a gun in my hand but he never showed
C Bb F C
Said he couldn't bring himself to sink himself that low
C Bb F C
I told him, I would meet him on the Indiana road with a gun in my hand but he never showed
C Bb F C
He went back to Ottawa, Toronto or wherever it is they go
C Bb F C
He went back to Ottawa, Toronto or wherever it is they go
C Bb F C
He went back to Ottawa, Toronto or wherever it is they go
Outro
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