The Ride

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[Verse]
A                              C
I was thumbin from Montgomery
C                          D
I had my guitar on my back
D                                 
When a stranger stopped beside me 
       A
in an antique Cadillac
A
He was dressed like 1950
       C
Half-drunk and hollow-eyed
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He said "It's a long walk to 
                              A
Nashville, would you like a ride, 
son?"

     A
Well I sat down in the front seat
         C
And he turned on the radio
          D                        
And them sad old songs comin outta 
                    A
them speakers was solid country gold
A                             
Then I noticed the stranger was 
                            C
ghost-white pale when he asked me 
for a light
        D                    
And I knew there was somethin 
                       A
strange about this ride

[Chorus]
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           G                       
He said "Drifter, can you make 
   D                     A
folks cry when you play and sing?"
A
"Have you paid your dues?  Can you 
moan the blues?"
          E
"Can you bend them guitar strings?"
          G                     
He said "Boy, can you make folks 
  D                    A
feel what you feel inside?"
                  G                
"Cause if you're big star bound, 
      D                        A
let me warn ya it's a long hard 
ride"

[Break]
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[Verse]
 A
Well he cried just south of 
Nashville
         C
And he turned that car around
        D                          
He said "This is where you get off,
                  A
 boy, cause I'm goin' back to 
Alabam'
A                                 C
As I stepped out of that Cadillac
 C
I said "Mister, many thanks."
         D
He said "You don't have to call me 
mister, mister"
      A
"The whole world called me Hank"

[Chorus]
           G                       
He said "Drifter, can you make 
   D                     A
folks cry when you play and sing?"
A
"Have you paid your dues?  Can you 
moan the blues?"
          E
"Can you bend them guitar strings?"
          G                     
He said "Boy, can you make folks 
  D                    A
feel what you feel inside?"
                  G                
"Cause if you're big star bound, 
      D                        A
let me warn ya it's a long hard 
ride"

           G                       
He said "Drifter, can you make 
   D                     A
folks cry when you play and sing?"
A
"Have you paid your dues?  Can you 
moan the blues?"
          E
"Can you bend them guitar strings?"
          G                     
He said "Boy, can you make folks 
  D                    A
feel what you feel inside?"
                  G                
"Cause if you're big star bound, 
      D                        A
let me warn ya it's a long hard 
ride"
            G                    
"If you're big star bound, let me 
  D                        A
warn ya it's a long hard ride"