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Woody Guthrie - Hard Travelin Chords

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Hard Travelin Chords

(ver. 2)
Woody Guthrie
The following figure is played wherever there is a long F:

  F      /D        /C      /a-A
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----3-3-----3-3-|-----3-3-----3-3-|
|-----0-0-----0-0-|-----0-0-----0-0-|
|-----0-0-----0-0-|-----0-0-----0-0-|
|---------2-------|-0---------------|
|-----------------|---------0h2-----|
|-3---------------|-----------------|

Verse 1

    F         /D          /C   /a-A       F                      [etc.]
Oh, I've been havin' some hard travelin', I thought you knowed.
                                      G            C
I've been havin' some hard travelin', way down the road.
F                                     Bb
I've been havin' some hard travelin', hard ramblin', hard gamblin'
    C                                     F
An' I've been havin' some hard travelin', Lawd.

Verse 2 

    F         /D          /C   /a-A       F                      [etc.]
Oh, I've been ridin' them blind passengers, I thought you knowed.
                                   G            C
I've been ridin' in fast wheelers, way down the road.
F                                     Bb
Blind passengers, flat wheelers, dead enders, kicking up cinders
    C                                     F
An' I've been havin' some hard travelin', Lawd.

Verse 3

    F         /D          /C   /a-A       F                      [etc.]
Ooh, I've been workin' in a hard rock tunnel, I thought you knowed.
                                      G            C
I've been pourin' red hot slag way down the road.
F                                     Bb
I've been a-blastin' an' I've been firin' an' I've been pourin' the red hot iron
    C                                     F
An' I've been havin' some hard travelin', Lawd.

Verse 4

    F         /D          /C   /a-A       F                      [etc.]
Oh, I've been walkin' that Lincoln Highway, I thought you knowed.
                                      G            C
I've been hitchin' on the '66, way down the road.
F                                     Bb
Heavy load, a worried man, I'm a-lookin' for a woman that's a-hard to find
    C                                     F
I've been havin' some hard travelin', Lawd.

Verse 5

    F         /D          /C   /a-A       F                      [etc.]
Oh, I've been hittin' some hard harvestin', I thought you knowed.
                                      G            C
North Dakota to Kansas City way down the road.
F                                     Bb
Bunchin' that wheat an' stacking that hay, trying to make about a dollar a day
    C                                     F
An' I've been havin' some hard travelin', Lawd.

Verse 6

    F         /D          /C   /a-A       F                      [etc.]
Oh, I've been locked in a hard rock jail, I thought you knowed.
                                      G            C
I've been layin' out ninety days, way down the road.
F                                     Bb
The mean old judge he says to me, "That's a-ninety days for vagrancy."
    C                                     F
An' I've been hittin' some hard travelin', Lawd.

Verse 7

    F         /D          /C   /a-A       F                      [etc.]
Oh, I've been havin' some hard travelin', I thought you knowed.
                                      G            C
I've been hittin' some hard travelin', way down the road.
F                                     Bb
I've been hittin' some hard travelin', hard ramblin', hard gamblin'
    C                                     F
An' I've been havin' some hard travelin', Lawd
            
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