Chords for [newportfolk] Ramblin' Jack Elliott & Pete Seeger sing "Hard Travelin"

And I never [Db] met him before, I just went over there to see [G] him.
So he didn't forget that he wasn't [F] interested in that, because he said,
the man in the next bed over just got off the operating table, he better not make any noise.
[G] _
[E] So I didn't play the guitar, but he said if I went across the street, I could meet his kids and his [G] wife, Marjorie.
Little Arlo was about three and a half years old at that [F] time.
So I went over and met [N] them and said hello, and Marjorie showed me around their [C] new apartment that they just moved into.
It wasn't out [G] in Coney Island anymore.
[C] I ended up going to [Eb] California with this friend to drive him out [C] there.
It took eight days, I was gone three months, and I sang this song in every bar I roomed for him.
Car traveling.
[Gm] And I got back to New York about [Eb] three months later, and I called up Woody, and I said,
This is Buck Elliot, but my name ain't Buck [C] anymore, I've changed it to Jack Buck.
_ [Eb] And Spooner [C] Wonderbird, it's kind of a long [Bb] story, can't explain it.
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He says there's a [C] thousand Jacks for every Buck. _
But I had to stick [A] with it.
I'd been through so many name changes by [Gb] that time.
Xerxes was my favorite.
_ [Ab] I was known as Xerxes in New England for a [Gm] while.
_ [C] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[Am] Anyway, I got to sing this song with Woody when I got back to [Bb] New York.
He invited me to [Gb] a party where he was going to be playing.
I thought, let's do that [C] song, Hard Traveling.
[G] He couldn't remember the words, and I was [Ab] amazed.
You wrote it?
You wrote it?
You don't remember it?
I didn't realize [G] then that Woody had written over 2,000 [Ab] songs,
and he didn't [Gm] remember all the words to every one of them.
_ [A] But I think it goes something like this.
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_ _ _ I've been having some hard traveling, I [A] thought you'd know.
I've been having some hard traveling [E] way down the road.
And I've been having some hard [D] traveling, hard rambling, hard [E] gambling.
I've been having some hard traveling, Lord.
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[B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ I've been riding them fast travelers, I thought you'd know.
I've been riding them flying [Gb] passengers way down [E] the road.
[A] I've been riding them dead [D] enders, flat wheelers, kicking up [E] cinders.
I've been having some hard [A] traveling, Lord.
_ I've been laying in a hard rock jail, I thought you'd know.
I've been laying out 90 [B] days way [E] down the road.
[A] And I've been hot, and I've been [D] firing on, and I've been sucking that red hot [E] on.
And I've been doing some hard [A] traveling, Lord. _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ I've been hitting some hard harvest, I thought you'd know.
North Dakota to Kansas [Em] City [E] way down the road.
Cutting that wheat and stacking [D] that hay, trying to make about a dollar a [E] day.
And I've been doing some hard [A] traveling, Lord.
Yeah! Woo! _
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[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ I've been walking the Lincoln Highway, I thought you'd know.
I've been hitching on 66 [Gb] way [E] down the road.
[A] Heavy load and a worried [D] mind, looking for a woman that's hard to [E] find.
I've been doing some hard [A] traveling, Lord.
Yeah!
Woo! _ _