Acoustic chords based on this performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96bOk33rWek
This is similar, but just a bit different from how it is played on the record,
so I made a chord chart for that as well, which you can find on the RCR page on UG.
C - x32010
G - 320013
F - x33210
Am - x02210
[Verse 1]
C
Oh country roads swerving
F C
Singing along to the roustabouts
Am G F
I'll never forget where I came from
C G
Misdirected youth passionately devout
Am G
To the city I hold dearly
F G
But everyone talks shit about
Am
And I hear talks about leaving
G
Me, I never wanted out
Am G F
I'd rather stay and make something out of this town
Am G C G F
We'll write our names in gasoline and burn them into the world
Am G F
Never thinking about what we would become
[Chorus]
F C F C
We were young impressionable kids
Am G F
Didn't know any better, didn't know any better than this
C F C
And our dreams they were our future
Am G F Am G C
And as far as I can see we'll be whatever we choose to be
[Interlude]
C F C G
Am G C F C G
whoa! whoa!
[Verse 2]
Am
We'll shake our fists at the morning sun
G C F C G
Singing "glory glory hallelujah!"
Am G
And I would give anything to feel the way I did back then
F
When I hear talks about leaving
G
But I never wanted out
C G F
I'd rather stay and make something out of this town
Am G C G F
We'll write our names in gasoline and burn them into the world
Am G F
Never thinking about what we would become
[Chorus]
F C F C
We were young impressionable kids
Am G F
Didn't know any better, didn't know any better than this
C F C
And our dreams they were our future
Am G F Am G F
And as far as I can see we'll be whatever we choose to be
Am G F
we'll be whatever we choose to be
Am G C F C G
we'll be whatever we choose to be
[Interlude]
Am G F G
[Chorus]
G C F C
We were young impressionable kids
Am G F
Didn't know any better, didn't know any better than this
C F C
And our dreams they were our future
Am G F Am G F
And as far as I can see we'll be whatever we choose to be
Am G C F
we'll be whatever we choose to be
Am G C F C G
we'll be whatever we choose to be
[Outro]
Am G C F C G
whoa! whoa!
Am G C F C
whoa! whoa!
