Key: Ab major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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young wife
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Never had a life
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Her mother said she'd married young.
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And her husband's a fool
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Never listened to
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All the things she's never done.
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So she packs up that ol'
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She's had about all
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A suitcase, a hope, and a hard rain.
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She's gonna find it all somewhere.
Verse 2
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On the road
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On the road
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Where it's goin' nobody knows.
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If it's anywhere, you'll find it
On the road.
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Verse 3
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There's a teenage kid
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No matter what he did
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Nobody ever understands.
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And he don't measure up
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And he's had enough
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Can't be his Daddy's little man.
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So he pulls out that hot rod Chevy.
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Puts in his favorite cassette.
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He ain't goin' to no college.
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The world is waitin' up ahead.
Verse 4
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On the road
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On the road
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There's a white line in the distance.
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Where it's goin' nobody knows.
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If it's anywhere, you'll find it
Interlude 1
On the road.
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Verse 5
The kids, they never come around.
And a gold-plated watch
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When the company shut his life down.
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So he takes down that old
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Airstream.
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They don't know where they're bound.
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Sixty five years and still
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For somethin' that they never found.
Verse 6
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On the road
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On the road
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Where it's goin' nobody knows.
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If it's anywhere, you'll find it.
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D
On the road.
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D
On the road.
Outro 1
On the road.
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