Long Hard Road chords by
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Key: D major

Verse 1
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Here's a song about being
a road musician.
This is called It's a Long Hard Road.
Way back in my memory
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there's a scene that I recall
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Of a little run -down
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cabin in the woods
Where my daddy never promised
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that our blue moon would turn gold
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But he lay awake nights
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wishin' that it would
When the world was on our radio
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Hard work was on our mind
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We lived our day to day
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in plain dirt fashion
With old overalls and cotton balls
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All strapped across your back
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It's hard to make believe
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there's nothin' wrong
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And mama kept the Bible read
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and daddy kept the family fed
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And somewhere in between
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I must have grown
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Cause one day I was dreaming
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that a  song I was singing
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Takes me down the road
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to where I want to go
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And I   know it's a long,
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A A 
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road
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D D 
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A A 
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D D 
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Now sometimes I remember
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when I stay up late at night
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Now the sun up came
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and we got up and went
In the shadow of a workin' day
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our moonlight hours were spent
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Singin' songs along with
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D D 
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Grandma's radio
Now I'm beating down
a blacktop rug,
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sleeping in a sack,
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living in my memories, all in vain.
And those city lights ain't all that bright
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compared to what it's like
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To see lightning bugs go
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dancing in the rain
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And mama played the guitar then
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and daddy played the mandolin
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And the raindrops played
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the timbrel like a drum
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But I   just kept on dreamin'
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as a song I was singin'
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Takes me down the road
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to where my name is known
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And I'm gone, it's a long hard road
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Now I   know,
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it's a long hard road
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