Chords for Arlo Guthrie - Walking Down The Line

[F] _ [Bb] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] Walkin Down the _ [F] _ [Bb] _
[F] _ [Bb] _ [F] _ [Gm] _ [C] _ [F] _ _ [F] _
_ _ Line, [Bb] _ [F] _ [Bb] _ [F]
I'm a Walkin Down the _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] Line, [Gm] I'm a Walkin Down [F] the [F] Line, [Bb] _ [F] I'm a walkin
You know, that's_
Wait [Db] a second.
That's not where it's at, man.
I mean, like, there's a lot of people here, man.
And obviously, you're not walking down a line.
_ I _ mean, you know_
Hey, when he wrote it, man, he probably wasn't walking down a line.
You know?
But you should sing it, because sometimes, like, you might be walking down_
I mean, like if, you know, an earthquake hits California, man,
and all the electricity goes and there's no more gasoline,
[F] you'll have to walk, you know, to wherever you're going.
You might, you know, want to sing that song. _
You might not.
You might want to stay at home.
But you could sing it staying at home, too, man.
_ [Bb] Or do it again.
_ [F] _ _ [F] _
_ [F] _ [Bb] _ [F] I'm a-walkin' down a line _
[Bb] Walkin' down a [F] line That's it.
[Bb] [F] Walkin' down a [Bb] line
[F] Speed a bee [Bb] flyin'
Any day [C] about trouble [F] of mine
Got a heavy-headed gal
Got a [Gm] heavy-headed gal
[F] _ I got a [F] heavy-headed [Bb] gal
Ain't [F] feelin' too [Bb] well
She gets [C] better only time can tell
I'm a-walkin' down a [F] line _
[Bb] Walkin' down a [F] line
_ [Bb] [F] Walkin' down [Bb] a line
[F] Speed a bee flyin'
Any day about trouble of mine
I seen the morning light
I seen [Bb] the morning light
[F] [Bb] And it ain't [F] because I'm an early [Bb] riser
[C] Didn't get to sleep last night
I'm a-walkin' [F] down a line _
[Bb] Walkin' down a [F] line
_ [Bb] [F] Speed [Bb] a bee [F] flyin'
Any day about [Gm] trouble [F] of mine
[Bb] [F] Got my walkin' shoes
Got [Bb] my walkin' shoes
_ [F] [Cm] I [Bb] got my [F] walkin' shoes
Ain't a-dauntin' to lose
[Bb] I believe I [Gm] got the [F] walkin' blues
Cause I'm walkin' down a line
_ [Bb] Walkin' down a [F] line _
[Bb] Walkin' down a line
[F] Speed a bee flyin'
Any [C] day about [F] trouble of mine
My money comes in gold
My money comes in [Bb] gold
_ [F] My [Bb] money comes [F] in gold
[Bb] [F] Rolls and flows, rolls [Gm] and flows
[G] Through the holes in the bottom [F] of my clothes
I'm a-walkin' down a line _
[Bb] Walkin' down a line
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ [F] _ [Bb]
[F] Speed a bee flyin'
[C] Any day about trouble of [F] mine _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I'd like to sing [N] you a song that is one of my husband David's favorite songs
And let me just tell you that he's fine
And _ _ _ we're _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ fine too _ _ _ _
And David was just shipped from the county jail, which is very much of a drag,
to a federal prison, which is kind of like a big summer camp after you've been in county jail long enough.
And they shackled his feet and they shackled his hands and they shaved his head and all that jazz.
And he's perfectly good-natured about the whole thing.
The last time I saw David, he was smiling as usual.
And we had waited a long time for the federal marshals to come to the house and pick him up.
And as it turned out, they could have picked him up anywhere after the 10th of July
and they waited until the 16th, so probably any noise about David would have been [G] buried in the moonshot. _
[C] Anyway, this is an organizing song, and I was happy to find out that after David had been in jail for two and a half weeks,
[F] he already had a very, very good hunger strike going with