From _Sitting By the Road_ album
Travis picking with guitar tuned down a half step (key of F#)
For 2 consecutive measures of the same chord, I play the first with an outside - in
pattern, skipping the "and of 1", playing two alternating bass notes in a row. For the second measure I
use a more rolling pattern, e.g. inside-out, sometimes using ring finger variation.
Doesn't matter, use what you like.
** D riff
|--0H2-------0------|
|--------3-------3--|
|------2-------2----|
|--0-------0--------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
[Intro instrumental]
GG
CC
GD
GG
[Chorus]
G
I'm goin' down to the Greyhound station
C
Gonna get a ticket to ride
G
Find a big fat lady with two or three kids
D
And sit down by her side
G
Ride 'til the sun comes up and down around me
C
'Bout two or three times
G
Smokin' cigarettes in the last seat
D
Try to hide my sorrow from the people I meet
[Verse]
G
And get along with it all
C
Go down where people say y'all
G
Sing a song with a friend
D
Change the shape that I'm in **
G C
And get back in the game and start playin' again
G D G
G
I'd like to stay but I might have to go
C
To start over again
G
Might go back down to Texas might go to somewhere
D
That I've never been **
G
And get up in the mornin' and go out at night
C
And I won't have to go home
G
Get used to bein' alone
D
Change the words to this song **
G
Start singin' again
C G D G
[Instrumental]
(same as intro)
GG
CC
GD
GG
G C
I'm tired of runnin' 'round lookin' for answers to questions that I already know
G D
I could build me a castle of memories just to have somewhere to go **
G C
Count the days and the nights that it takes to get back in the saddle again
G
Feed the pigeons some clay
D
Turn the night into day **
G C
Start talkin' again, when I know what to say
G D G
[Chorus]
G
I'm going' down to the Greyhound station
C
Gonna get a ticket to ride
G
Find the big fat lady with two or three kids
D
And sit down by her side **
G
Ride 'til the sun comes up and down around me
C
'Bout two or three times
G
Smokin' cigarettes in the last seat
D
Tryin' to hide my sorrow from the people I meet
[Verse]
G
And get along with it all
C
Go down where people say y'all
G
Feed the pigeons some clay
D
Turn the night into day **
G C
Start talkin' again when I know what to say
G D G
[Outro instrumental]
GG
CC
GD
GG
