Nowhere Road
Steve Earle

Submitted By Tiny Man

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[Intro]    G


G                                                                            F           C                    G
There's a road, in Oklahoma   Straighter than a preacher         Longer than a memory
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and it goes, forever onward   Been a good teacher        for a lot of country boys like me


G                                                                                 F                           C
I push that load from here to someday  I'll push as long as I'm alive,      but I don't know how
G                                                                                              F              C
long I'll last    'Cause it's just a road, it Ain?t no highway   I'm blowin' by the double five
                     G                     D
I know I'm going way too fast



[Chorus]
         C                      G                              D
I been down this road just searching' for the end
                  C                 G                   D
It don't go nowhere, it just brings you back again
                                        G
Leaves you lonely and cold, standin' on the shoulder
                                                            C
But you've come too far to go back home
                                       G
So you're walkin' on a nowhere road


[Solo]        G





G                                                                                        F             C                         G
Some folks say, if you keep rollin'  And keep it on the yellow line       It'll take you on the big
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highway  But there's a toll to pay, if you're going  The keeper of the gate is blind
                             G                                 D
So you better be prepared to pay




[Chorus]
         C                      G                              D
I been down this road just searching' for the end
                  C                 G                   D
It don't go nowhere, it just brings you back again
                                        G
Leaves you lonely and cold, standin' on the shoulder
                                                            C
But you've come too far to go back home
                                       G
So you're walkin' on a nowhere road



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