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[Verse]
     Em
On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha
        D
You can listen to the engine moanin' out it's one lone song
        A                                                       Em
You can think about the woman, or the girl you knew the night before
         Em
But your thoughts will soon be wandering the way they always do
            D
When you're riding sixteen hours and there's nothing much to do
        A                                                                Em
And you don't feel much like riding, you just wish the trip was through
Mmmm


[Chorus]
Em          D          Em
Say, here I am, on the road again
        D             Em
There I am, up on the stage
       D           A
Here I go, playing star again
        C   D          Em
There I go,   turn the page, ah


[Verse]
          Em
Well, you walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road
        D
And you feel the eyes upon you as you're shaking off the cold
       A                                                        Em
You pretend it doesn't bother you but you just want to explode
     Em
Most times you can't hear 'em talk, other times you can
        D
All the same old clichés: "Is that a woman or a man?"
        A                                                     Em
And you always seem outnumbered, you don't dare make a stand


[Chorus]
Em        D          Em
   Here I am, on the road again
        D             Em
There I am, up on the stage
       D           A
Here I go, playing star again
        C   D          Em
There I go,   turn the page, ah


[Bridge]
Em
Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away
D
Every ounce of energy you try to give away
       A                                                       Em
As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play


[Saxophone riff]
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[Verse]
(slightly muted chords, strum once for the quiet part)
Em
Later in the evening as you lie awake in bed
         D
With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin' in your head
    A                                                          Em
You smoke the day's last cigarette, remembering what she said


[Chorus]
Em         D          Em
Ah, here I am, on the road again
        D             Em
There I am, up on the stage
       D           A
Here I go, playing star again
        C   D          Em
There I go,   turn the page

Em         D          Em
Ah, here I am, on the road again
        D             Em
There I am, up on the stage
       D           A
Here I go, playing star again
        C   D         Em
There I go,   there I go


[Saxophone riff]
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