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- A ROAD IS JUST A ROAD (Mary-Chapin Carpenter & John Jennings)
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- [Actually in A; capo 2.]
- [Each chord is half a measure.]
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- G G D D G G C C G G D D G G G G
- [intro]
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- G G D D
- He pulled out in a cloud of dust
- G G C C
- Laying rubber and spewing rust
- Em Em D D
- And on any road he'd take
- C G/B Am D
- He'd have his foot on the pedal and my heart on the brake(break)
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- G G D D
- Underneath the smooth tar curves
- G G C C
- A road is only dust and dirt
- Em Em D D
- On a lonely interchange
- C Am D D
- The signs all look the same
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- G G D D C C D D
- 'Cause a road is just a road and a feeling's just a feeling
- G G D D C C D D
- No matter where you go, from Waterloo to Wichita
- G G D D C C Em/B Em/B
- A road is just a road that the one you love is leaving on
- C C Em/B Em/B D D G G G G
- And midnight's another dawn, 100 miles ago [these two G's are only
- played the first time.]
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- His wheels spun out of sight of me
- Believing that I'd set him free
- But I'd heard the voice of the prisoner
- Saying he couldn't get enough of her
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- You go by land, you go by air
- You go by sea, hell I don't care
- You can go any way you choose
- Wearing out the soles of your traveling shoes
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- And a road is just a road and a feeling's just a feeling
- No matter where you go, from Bangor, Maine to Bakersfield
- A road is just a road that the one you love is leaving on
- And midnight's another dawn, a hundred miles ago
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- [Guitar solo: same chords as chorus.]
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- F F C C
- And every sleepless night I see him
- G G C C C C
- Screaming by the scenery
- F F C C
- Not noticing another mile
- G G C C C C D D D D
- That's rolled down between him and me
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- 'Cause a road is just a road and a feeling's just a feeling
- No matter where you go, from Saskatoon to San Antone
- A road is just a road that the one you love is leaving on
- And midnight's another dawn, a hundred miles ago
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- Yes, a road is just a road and a feeling's just a feeling
- No matter where you go, from San Bernardino to Sault Ste. Marie
- A road is just a road that the one you love is leaving on
- And midnight's another dawn, a hundred miles ago
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- - Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu
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