Down The Road Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays800

Down The Road by Richard Clapton is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, Am, C and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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G
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  			I was 
 
G					D 
Turned out of Caf?ologne as the	sun came up the	 
 
D				Am					C 
cock was crowin' and the	ground kept swaying underneath my feet	all the 
 
G				D 
drifters are Americans		chasing dreams to Amsterdam 
 
Am					C				G 
stumbling briskly past me on the street			And I've	got 
 
G			Em			C 
this feeling in my	heart		that it's	time to raise the blinds 
 
			D			G			C 
and change the scene				Down the road I'm go -	ing 
 
G			C 
down the road I'm go -	ing		(I paint) 
 
 
 
verse two: 
 
I paint miracles on pavements,			And don't expect no payment 
Unless of course the stranger's feeling kind,	I've lived this way for years and years 
Sometimes shed a madman's tears,		My head's bursting with life most of the time 
Then I get (this feeling in my heart ?.) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Transcription: grimy solutions 
 

    	

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