Key: D major•
Verse 1
D
G
D
On
a highway through
G
the desert beneath an overpass
A
D
Sat two hikers just watchin' cars go by
Now one was wearin'
G
sandles with straggly matted hair
A
D
Rose colored glasses for his eyes
Verse 2
D
Now the other was a cowboy,
G
he'd been down on his luck
A
Lost his money at the Tuscon Rodeo
D
And he sat beside what remained
G
of his trusty pickup truck
A
And like the hippie now he's
D
thumbin' down the road
Verse 3
A
Now some folks don't realize
D
but it's a well know fact
G
Cowboy's and hip
A
D
pies ain't never got along
A
Now was it just coincidence
D
or some weird act of fate
G
That brought these two to
A
D
gether on the road?
Verse 4
D
Well they sat there without talking while
G
the morning sun rose high
A
When a hot desert breeze
D
commenced to blow
And the fragrance of the incense
G
and six weeks without a bath
A
Finally drifted down and
D
reached the cowboy's nose
Verse 5
A
Well, man that really did it,
D
he couldn't take no more
G
And he tied his old bandana
A
D
'round his face
A
Said, "You greasy stinking hippie
D
you'd put a skunk to shame
G
A
Boy, you're a discrace to the
D
human race"
Verse 6
D
Now the hippie,
G
he just sat there and gave the cowboy a smile
A
Said, "Man, you don't smell so
D
sweet yourself
Well, I'm not too sure what that
G
green stuff is on your boots
A
And on your jeans but whew,
it's enough to make a buzzard belch"
D
G
D
Verse 7
A
The cowboy said, "Now listen,
D
I ain't gonna that that stuff from you
G
A
D
No long haired freak's gonna talk to me that way,
get up"
A
Well, the hippie said, "Now hold on man,
D
what good's that gonna do?
G
You know fighting never settles
A
D
nothing anyway"
Verse 8
D
Said, "You know man, in a lot of ways,
G
we're an awful lot alike
A
D
Once you get down beneath the skin
Like two books with different covers
G
but the same words inside
A
D
We're both brothers of the wind"
Verse 9
A
"Now we both love our freedom
D
and we'll answer to no man
G
And you've heard it said
A
D
to thine own self be true
A
We're just a couple of free spirts
D
drifting across the land
G
A
D
Doing exactly what we want to do"
Verse 10
D
G
Said, "Now me I got my thing and you,
you got yours
A
And I don't see why we
D
can't get along
They say the closest thing to freedom
G
is livin' on the road
A
In a country where freedom's
D
almost gone"
Verse 11
D
Well the cowboy,
G
he just stood there and never said a word
A
But you know this hippie sure
D
made a lot of sense
Well, they shook hands and parted
G
as a truck pulled to the side
A
And the hippie,
D
he went east and I went west
G
D
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ChordsD G A
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