Road Of Good Intentions Chords
by John Gorka
Road Of Good Intentions by John Gorka is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords C, F, G, Dm7 and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
th Fret
Intro: C F G
F G C
There's addition and subtraction
F G C
But division overall
F G F
Hope, once in fluid motion
Dm7 G
Has slowed behind a crawl
F G C
Oh, the images are strong now
F G C
The words are pretty good
F G F
But there's more fiction out of Washington
Dm7 G
Than out of Hollywood
F G C
On the road of good intentions
F G Am F
All gets justified to hell
C F
The price revealed in stories
G C
Too short, too sad to tell
INTERLUDE: F G C F G
F G C
Is this permanent improvement
F G C
Through abbreviated lives
F G F
Or another tragic venture
Dm7 G
Shocking when the bill arrives?
F G C
By the rubble where the house was
F G C
There are markers in the dirt
F G F
Children with no need of freedom
Dm7 G
They can no longer be hurt
F G C
On the road of good intentions
F G Am F
All gets justified to hell
C F
The price revealed in stories
G C
Too short, too sad to tell
INTERLUDE: F G C F G
F G C
Oh, the soldiers and their families
F G C
With life and limb they pay
F G F
While the ones who sent them marching
Dm7 G
Get to dance the night away
F G C
I always come back to the soldiers
F G C
With their courage and ideals
F G F
I've seen them smoking in the airport
Dm7 G
There's no telling how it feels
F G C
On the road of good intentions
F G Am F
All gets justified to hell
C F
The price revealed in stories
G C
Too short, too sad to tell
OUTRO: F G C