Chords for Joshua Kadison - Child Of These Roads

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[Eb] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [C] In [Bb] the middle of town was a long black [Dm] highway rolling on forever _
[Gm] With music running through my veins.
I was [Eb] gonna play and never
_ [Bb] Look back.
I was [Cm] barely legal [Dm] summer of [Eb] 82
_ _ [Gm]
The asphalt was [F] shining
The [Eb] sky was dazzling blue and [Bb] as the towns rolled by like barking [Dm] dogs
living at my heels
_ [Gm] Something in me was changing _ [Eb] fast as the speed of my wheels _
[Bb] America [Cm] was everything [Dm] and nothing like I thought [Eb] she'd be a [Gm] holy [F] roadside
attraction [Eb] for a starry-eyed kid like me a
Starry-eyed kid like me.
I was [Bb] a child [F] _ of
[Gm] these roads a
_ [Eb] _ _
[Bb] child [Cm] of
these roads [F] a _
[Bb] Wide black [F] river shining.
I [Gm] wrote her ever where she wanted [Eb] to go [Cm] just a child
[F] _ of [Bb] these roads
[F] _ _ _ [G] _ [Gm] _ _
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_ _ [Eb] _ [F] _ [Bb] First time I found Memphis I [Dm] saw the old Sun Studios _ _
[Gm] Turned into a souvenir shop [Eb] and learned the way things go.
_ [Bb] I just drove [Cm] by Graceland
Went [Dm] down south to New [Eb] Orleans.
I [Gm] played a Delta scarred [F] by many [Eb] moms and automatic banking machines _
Automatic banking machines.
I was [Bb] a child [F] _ [Gm] of these roads
_ [F] _ _ _
[Eb] a child [Bb] of
[Cm] these roads [F] a
[Bb] Wide black [F] river shining.
[Gm] I wrote her ever where she [Eb] wanted to go just [Cm] a child
Of _ _ [Bb] these roads
_ [Dm] _ _ [G] _
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[Bb] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _
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_ _ _ So from [Bb] the boy with the piano in his truck [Dm] the knave I used to be
To [Gm] all you souls in those roadside joints.
[Eb] Thanks for being kind to me
You showed me [Bb] how to love with all my [Eb] heart how [Dm] to sing when I had to [Eb] cry
How [Gm] to take each day as it [F] comes
[Eb] Then let each day go by
Let each day go by and I [Bb] guess I never did learn [F] to stay in one [Gm] place too long
[F] So _ [Eb] _ when [Bb] my time comes just [Cm] scatter my [F] ashes on the road and sing [Eb] this song _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ There goes [Bb] a child of
[F] _ [Gm] these roads a
_ [G] _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] child of
[Cm] these [F] roads a
[Bb] Wide black river [F] shining.
[Gm] I wrote her ever where she [Eb] wanted to go just [Cm] a child
[F] _ of [Gm] these roads
_ [Eb] Just a child
[F] _ Stella [Bb] child
[Gm] _ Just [Eb] a child _
_ [Bb] Stella child
[Gm] _ [Eb] Just a child [F] _ of [Bb] these roads _
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