Chords for Ricky Skaggs & Del McCoury, Travelin' Down This Lonesome Road

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_ _ _ _ _ _ The recording session that Bill Monroe had [G] in town here.
Oh wow.
Before that [Dm] they had to go to Chicago.
[C] _ [A] That's right.
[N] What year was it, 49?
Yep.
49.
Yep.
And you know the Brothers Harmonies moved from a man living on a guitar, when Mr.
Monroe
came to Nashville, put together a band and joined the Granville Occary in 39, and then
they took on a band sound.
Bill was still kind of looking for, you know, a uniqueness, but this is one of the early
[C] Bluegrass recordings that they did with the full band.
This [D] is called Traveling Down This [F] Lonesome Road. _ _ _ _
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_ _ Traveling down this lonesome road, [C] oh how I [F] hate to go.
_ _ _ The rain is gone, the rain is dry, and it's all for coal.
_ _ _ _ Thank you, sweethearts.
_ _ _ _ I don't want to let me [C] miss traveling down [F] this lonesome _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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_ _ _ road. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ I remember dear, not long [C] ago, you said you'd be [F] my own.
_ _ _ I thought you'd go away and leave me [C] all alone.
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The light of love is haunting me, my sweetheart, you're so alone.
How you gone and left me here, [C] traveling this [F] lonely road.
_ _ I'm traveling down this lonesome [C] road, oh how I [F] hate to go.
_ _ The rain is gone, the rain is dry, and it's all for coal. _ _ _ _
_ Thank you, sweetheart, and I love you so.
How you gone and left [C] me here, traveling this [F] lonely road.
My heart is _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ broken, _ so what [C] I'm gonna do for you, [F] my babe?
_ _ _ _ _ _ That's what I need [C] to hear. _
[F] You broke my heart, you left me here, now I'm growing old.
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Traveling this [F] lonesome road.
_ _ _ I'm traveling down this lonesome [C] road, oh how I [F] hate to go.
_ _ _ The rain is gone, the rain is dry, and it's all for coal. _ _
Thank _ you, sweetheart, and I love you so.
_ How you gone and left [G] me [C] here, traveling this _ [G] lonesome road.
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