Key: D major
Verse 1
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Eb
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This song was first released on the Spirit
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album. It is the only album it has been released on.
Verse 2
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If your drivin' down the road and
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you come across an old man
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C
Holdin' out his thumb in the wind
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His clothes are old and dirty and dirty
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that doesn't matter
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G
It's his eyes that tell where he's been
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If you're not afraid to take
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your chances on a stranger
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He might have some company to lend
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Dm
Why don't you pull off to the side
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and let that old man have a ride
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He can tell you all the crazy
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things he's seen
Verse 3
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Eb
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I'm an old hitchhiker
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The highway is the only
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home I know
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Where you're headed I don't mind
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I ain't been there in some time
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G
And it's just exactly where I want to go
Verse 4
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I can tell you how I started in
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the circus as a barker
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C
Drawin' people in from far and wide
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They never did regret the
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dollar that it cost 'em
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We always left 'em feelin'
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good inside
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We were headed for Montana
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when we hired us a dancer
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C
Her beauty it was more than I can say
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Then one summer night
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she set my soul on fire
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Lord, I wish that she was
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here with me today
Verse 5
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Bb
C
I'm an old hitchhiker, I wonder
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what's a waitin' 'round the bend
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I don't know what I might see
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and I don't need no guarantee
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Just a ride from here to there
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and back again
Interlude 1
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C
Dm
Am
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Verse 6
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I was only seventeen when I
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took the open highway
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C
Took it for my teacher and a friend
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I've been thirty years a-
thumbin'
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Some might call it bummin'
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G
But it's better than just cryin' in the wind
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Dm
So if you're drivin' down the road and you come across
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C
an old man holdin' out his thumb in the rain
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Why don't you pull off to the side
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let the poor boy have a ride
D
He can tell you all the crazy
G
things he's seen
Verse 7
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Bb
C
I'm an old hitchhiker lookin' to
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the far side of the hill
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Some people say I'll settle down
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Build a home in some small town
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G
But within my heart I know I never will
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I'm an old
Verse 8
hitchhiker
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Words by Steve Weisberg and
Verse 9
John Denver,
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music by Steve Weisberg
Outro 1
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