Get your kicks on/route 66 Chords

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Get your kicks on/route 66 by Nat King Cole is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, F#m, C#7, F#7, B7, E7 and E6. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			E        A       F#m     E 
If you ever plan to motor west, 
 
          A             F#m              E 
Travel my way, take the highway that is best. 
 
          C#7     F#7   B7          E   
Get your kicks on Route six - ty - six. 
 
 
    E         A      F#m   E 
It winds from Chicago to L-A, 
 
          A            F#m            E 
More than two thousand miles all the way. 
 
         C#7      F#7   B7         E   
Get your kicks on Route six - ty - six. 
 
 
(Bridge:) 
 
	   E (tacit)               F#m (tacit) 
Now you go through Saint Looey, Joplin, Missouri, 
 
     E                E7 
And Oklahoma City is mighty pretty. 
 
	A    F#m     E          F#m  E 
You see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico, 
 
  A                 F#m 
Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona, 
 
E         A       F#m       B7	 
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernandino. 
 
 
       E       A          F#m     E 
Won't you get hip to this timely tip: 
 
      A            F#m         E 
When you make that California trip 
 
         C#7      F#7   B7          E   
Get your kicks on Route six - ty - six. 
 
 
(Repeat Bridge) 
 
 
(Repeat Last Verse) 
 
 
(Coda:) 
 
	    C#7       F#7   B7         E   
Get your kicks on Route six - ty - six. 
 
	    C#7       F#7   B7         E 
Get your kicks on Route six - ty - six. 
 
	    C#7       F#7   B7         E     A    B7     E6 
Get your kicks on Route six - ty - six. 
 
 
 
    
 

    	

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100 BPM Andante