Louisiana Gold Chords by Anders Osborne

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_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] Came [G] from Northern [D] California
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loved to ride [D] the [G] trains
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_ [D] _ [G] had a handmade [D] beat-up leather bag where he [G] kept all his childhood [D] [G] pains
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_ _ [D] [G] Left his mama and his daddy when he was barely [D] 16
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_ _ [D] _ [G] know, we never [D] really followed [G] money never really [D] had a [G] dream
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[G] _ _ _ [D] [C] To love the thought of drifting to live by no man's plan
Solitude is freedom
_ [G] The road made him [G] a _ [D]
man
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_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] Coast to coast [D] across every [G] state on Pacific, [D] Illinois
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[D] _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ [G] saw every town he ever [D] dreamt [G] about since he was a little [D] [G] boy _ _
[D] _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ [G] He ended up [D] down in New [G] Orleans working on a [D] foursome [G] farm
Took [D] _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _ LSD [D] and danced [G] all night.
Yeah, you know, we [D] met a [G] woman that made him calm
[D] _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ [G] Just love the thought of drifting
To live by no man's plan
[C] Solitude is freedom
_ Road [G] made him a man
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_ _ [D] _ [G] Yes, I did
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Something deep [D] inside of him [G] changed when he saw [D] her face
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_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ [G] Yeah, he felt like she [D] knew him [G] well from another [D] time and [G] place
You [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ [G] know, they woke up with the [D] Sun one [G] day and the traveling [D] days were done
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[D] Settled _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
down in the [D] shotgun [G] house down on Bayou St.
[D] John
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Love the [C] thought of drifting
Live by no man's land
Solitude is freedom
_ The road made him a [G] man
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_ _ [D] _ [G] If you mind that river long enough you get Louisiana
You get Louisiana go _ Louisiana _ Louisiana _ _ _
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