New Cut Road chords by Bobby Bare

SimplifiedG · C · D · Em

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Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
Coalman Bonner was a fiddle
playin' fool
D 
He was a backwoods rounder
and a breaker of mules
Coalman Bonner's got a
wor' out bow
G 
He been playin' two days
down a new cut road

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Verse 2

Now Coalman's little sister said,

"You better act right, Coalman

Daddy's going to Louisville,

he'll be back tonight

He gonna get another wagon

and a good pair of mules

Oh, we gonna move to Texas,

we just waitin' on news"

Verse 3
G 
Now Coalman's daddy,
he pulled up in the yard
D 
He said, "Back up your lives kids,
it's getting too hard
Kentucky's alright but
there's too many people
G 
Well, just the other day,
I thought I saw a church steeple"

Verse 4
G 
Now Coalman said,
"Daddy don't you worry 'bout me
C 
D 
I wanna stay here in Kentucky
'til the day I dee
I'm wanna drink that sour mash,
I'm gonna raise that mare
G 
Yeah, I got me a woman
with a foxy red hair"

Verse 5
G 
"We all been movin' west since
the day he got married
D 
I'm getting off the wagon,
I'm too old to be carried
I'm gonna stay in Kentucky
where the blue grass grows
G 
C 
G 
I'm gonna play it all night down
Em 
G 
a new cut road"

Interlude 1

Verse 6
G 
Now Coalman's daddy said,
"What's it all comin' to?
D 
Young people these days are
just stubborn as mules"
He can't make 'em go,
he's too old for that
G 
It's that damned ol' fiddle
and that bowler hat

Verse 7
G 
Now Coalman's momma said,
"Let the boy stay
D 
'Cause he's raised up solid,
he can find his own way
But as for me, honey, I'm with you
G 
I always thought Kentucky was just
passin' through"

Verse 8
G 
Coalman's little sister, she started
in a cry
D 
And his daddy shook his hand for the
very last time
Coalman's momma said,
"Somebody gotta do it
G 
Wouldn't be no Kentucky,
'less you didn't stick to it, Coalman"

Verse 9
G 
Coalman Bonner stood on the porch
of that cabin
D 
Watched 'em all go to Texas
in a covered wagon
He pulled out his fiddle and
G 
he rosined up his bow
C 
G 
And he played a little tune called