Thank God For The Road chords by The Flatlanders

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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There's the sky,
C 
here's the earth
This is the road for all it's worth
G 
It's a ribbon, it's a river,
D 
G 
it's a wave
C 
It's an arrow and it's a snake
It's asleep and it's awake
G 
And it stretches from
D 
G 
the cradle to the grave

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Verse 2

Thank God for the road

And the hubcaps and the headlights

And the mudflaps and the taillights

And the dim lights and the bright lights

Verse 3

Thank God for the road

And the miles that come between us

The little rains that come to clean us

The guardian angels who have seen us

Verse 4
C 
Thank God for the road
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No matter what it takes to drive it
D 
Life and death can seem so private
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Still you think you will survive it
C 
Thank God for the road

Interlude 1

Verse 5
G 
There's the sky, here's the earth
C 
This is the road for all it's worth
G 
It's a ribbon, it's a river,
D 
G 
it's a wave
C 
It's an arrow and it's a snake
It's asleep and it's awake
G 
And it stretches from
D 
G 
the cradle to the grave

Verse 6

Thank God for the road

The soft shoulders you can cry on

The hard nerves you rely on

The fast curves you can die on

Verse 7

Thank God for the road

And the stars that shine above it

No matter what you once thought of it

You always knew you'd come to love it

Verse 8
C 
Thank God for the road
G 
And those old telephone poles
D 
A cup of coffee and a sweet roll
When you're trying to
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save your own soul
C 
Thank God for the road