Intro:
A C#m/A D Dm A
Verse:
A C#m/A
Pardon me sir, you got a dime?
D Dm A
I'm trying to find my way back to New Orleans.
A C#m/A
Broke down and fallen on hard times,
D Dm A
I need just one kind favor to get back on my feet.
C#m D A
Lost my ticket for a Greyhound bus,
D A E
when it left me in the dust and gone away.
C#m D A D A E
Man at the station says, "Boy get lost, start going your own way."
A C#m/A D
Im walking 40 days and nights under the Texas sun,
Dm A
won't someone help me please?
A C#m/A
Pardon me sir, you got a dime?
D Dm A
I'm trying to find my way back to New Orleans.
A C#m/A D Dm A
Verse:
I did my time in Baton Rouge, in Birmingham and Huston, too,
but all I ever see
Was weary faces just like mine, waiting in endless lines,
just'a trying to find a seat.
Chorus: