Dar Williams - Traveling Again (Traveling I)
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: F G C F G F
N.C. F G C
Have I got everything? Am I ready to go?
F G
Is it gonna be wild, is it gonna be the best time?
Am F G C
Or am I just saying so-o-o-o? Am I ready to go?
F G C
What do I hear when I say I hear the call of the road?
N.C. Am
I think it started with driving
F G Am G
More speed, more deals, more sky, more wheels
Am F G
More things to leave behind
C
Now it's all in a day for the modern mind
F G C
And I am traveling again
F G Am
Calling this a ghost town and where is the heartland?
F G Am
And I'm afraid, oh, was there any good reason
F G Am F G C
That I had to go, when all I know is, I can never come back, yeah, yeah
F G C
Traveling, I made a friend, he had a trouble in his head
F G
And all he could say, that he knew that the bottle
Am F G C
Drank the woman from his bed, from his bed
F G C
He said, "I'm not gonna lose that way again"
Am
But sober is just like driving
F G Am G
More joy, more dread, someone turns her head
Am F G
And smiles and disappears
C
He's gotta take it like it is and it goes too fast
F G F G Am
And he is just like me, caught in-between, no sage advisor
F
Does weary mean wiser?
Dm Am F
And someday, will I sing the mountains that carried me away
Dm G
Away from home and hometown boys like you
F G C
Yeah, what about us? Was it really that bad?
F G
Oh, its hard to believe I want a highway road-stop
Am F G C
More than all the times we had on little dirt roads
F G C
What am I reaching for, that's better than a hand to hold?
N.C. Am
It really was about driving
F G Am G
Not fame, not wealth, not driving away from myself
Am F G
It's just myself drove away from me
C
And now I gotta get it back and it goes so fast
F G C
So I am traveling again
F G Am
Sitting at the All-Night, picking up a pen
F G Am
And I'm afraid, oh, was there any good reason
F G Am F C
That I had to go, when all I know is, I am all alone again
F G Am
You are the ghost town, and I am the heartland
F G Am
And I can say, oh, that's a very good reason that I had to go
F G Am F G
But now all I know, is I can never come back, yeah, yeah
C F G C F-C
And I will never go back
