Key: C major
Verse 1
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Up and down,
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in and out,
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a lifetime of rambling and roaming
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Shuffling around from town to town,
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just to get where I'm going
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I, I, I know
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Cause I stood out there on
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that open road
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With my fortune to be told
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And it all spread out like a ribbon
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of gold
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The signs went whizzin' by
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Everything was movin' so fast
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Up in the distance,
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I'm sure there's something
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But nothing's holding us back
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We were already gone
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There's a jackpot up there
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So we just let it roll
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And it all spread out like a
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ribbon of gold
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I don't listen when the
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boys start bitchin'
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bout the way things went
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Cause I was there and I was listenin'
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I'm tellin' you we had a blast
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We were gone, gone, gone
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Standin' on some corner in
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the early mornin'
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No direction home
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Paint it all straight out
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like a ribbon of gold
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Yeah, like a ribbon of gold guitar so lo
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Come on,
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boys! guitar solo
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Paint it as far as Manhattan,
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Kansas
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That's where the whole thing fell apart
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At Debbie's headrest
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in the middle of a cornfield
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The bikers nearly tore us apart
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And we could not go
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For three long days looking at your home
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As you moved on down that open road
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Yeah, it all spread out like a ribbon
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of gold
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Lights of Los Angeles are
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right there in front of us
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Soon we'll put this thing in park
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And we'll say goodbye on
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Hollywood Boulevard
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An d I'll walk home in the dark
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We've been so far gone
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What can you say after
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what we've done
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It's just maybe so long enough
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to see you out there on that open road
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Where it all spins out
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like a ribbon of gold
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Yeah, like a ribbon of gold
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An d it was so beautiful
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I'm a little bit blue
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