Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I have a friend lives up in Portland,
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I stayed there with him one time
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He had a new a pair of high- top sneakers,
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didn't fit him but they fit me fine
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we drove down the California line
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he headed home, he left me behind
Verse 2
shoes and be on your way
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travelin' to do
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other day
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
black Chuck Taylors
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A finer shoe has never been worn
I can see where I've been
in the color fadin'
I can what I learned where
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they're frayed and worn
concrete pavement
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Of London, and Dublin, and New York town
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I shook out the sand from the ocean beaches,
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I left it on the floor of an airport lounge
Interlude 2
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Verse 4
at the bluegrass fester
It was squishy squashin' through the
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fields all day
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I rinsed them out in the cool lake water,
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I washed that mountain mud away
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the wind outside it howls and blows
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and warm my soaked and wrinkled toes
Interlude 3
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Verse 5
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These are shoes that like to travel,
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no tellin' where they'll take me to
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They're still not done
scratchin' gravel
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They still gotta show me a thing or two
Outro 1
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Em
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