Road Buddy chords by
Dar Williams

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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We passed the stores,

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we passed the hotels

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Filled our car with gasoline

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We drove that night, I saw the moon

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Almost got us in an accident

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And then at the rest stop

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When that woman tried to steal my wallet

Verse 2

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It felt like an adventure

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Isn't that what you would call it?

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Isn't that what you would call it?

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You're my road buddy,

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but I'm lonely all the time

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I thought we'd be joking,

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having long talks on late night drives

Verse 3

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But you drive so bad I lost my patience

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So pass the chips and turn the station

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This is not a romance

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with the road

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Where the moss grows up the trees

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To where the bird is rusty

Verse 4

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I thought we'd find each story like

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a snakeskin or an ar rowhead

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But we only stop at fast food places

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They hate their jobs, I understand

Verse 5

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They try to act familiar,

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but they're floating just above the land

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And we are all floating

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You're my road buddy,

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but I'm lonely all the time

Verse 6

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I thought we'd show that friendship could

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be stronger than the crossroads double back

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I thought I heard the Tori sing,

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I'll take that thing I

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This is not a romance with the road

Verse 7

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In those cliffs are the same as in

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the magazines I have at home

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And the tall grass reminds me of

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the same dreams I had at home

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I thought life was a road and I

wanted to begin it

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I said, my friend and I going on a

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trip so I could only stop a minute

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We go to the venting machines

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I want to watch these kid

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s with their mother

Verse 8

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Sipping on their juice boxes

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and smiling at each other

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And maybe that's their Dad

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on the phone

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Saying, hey Mom, you couldn't wait,

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go ahead, have dinner

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'Cause we're running just a little late

But we're on our way

Verse 9

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Road buddy, road buddy,

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I heard about the boxcars and the family of travelers

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But there's real estate sides in the cornfields

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I know there's love,

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I bet there's trouble

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But you just can't spend

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a lifetime on the road

Verse 10

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And there's something I finally faced

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I finally think I come from some place

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This is not a romance with the road

Outro 1

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Chords

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Am
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Em

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The original key of Road Buddy by Dar Williams is G major.

The primary chords used in Road Buddy are C, G, Am, F, D, Em.

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