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Key : C
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[Intro]
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A# | F | C | C | F 
C

[Verse 1]
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C
 Well, I was thumbin' from Montgomery
D#
 I had my guitar on my back
F                                          C
 When a stranger stopped beside me in an antique Cadillac
He was dressed like nineteen fifty
     D#
Half drunk and holloweyed
                 F
He said, "It's a long walk to Nashville
                 C
Would you like a ride, son?"

[Verse 2]
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    Cm7                               F
And I  sat down in the front seat, he turned on the radio
         F
And them sad old songs comin' out of them speakers
    C
Was solid country gold
Then I noticed the stranger was ghostwhite pale
        D#
When he asked me for a light
      F                                           C
And I knew there was something strange about this ride

[Chorus (1)]
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         A#                          F                          C
He said, "Drifter, can ya make folks cry when you play and sing?
Have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues?
        G
Can you bend them guitar strings?"
         A#                       F                    C
He said, "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
                 A#                    F                          C
'Cause if you're big star bound let me warn ya, it's a long, hard ride"

[Verse 3]
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A# F C        C
     Then he cried just south of Nashville
       D#
And he turned that car around
        F
He said, "This is where you get off, boy
       C
'Cause I'm goin' back to Alabam'"
As I stepped out of that Cadillac
D#
 I said, "Mister, many thanks"
F
 He said, "You don't have to call me Mister, Mister
    C
The whole world called me Hank"

[Chorus (2)]
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         A#                          F                          C
He said, "Drifter, can ya make folks cry when you play and sing?
Have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues?
        G
Can you bend them guitar strings?"
         A#                       F                    C
He said, "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
                 A#                    F                          C
'Cause if you're big star bound let me warn ya, it's a long, hard ride"
         A#                          F                          C
He said, "Drifter, can ya make folks cry when you play and sing?
Have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues?
       G
Can you bend them guitar strings?"
         A#                       F                    C
He said, "Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
                 A#                    F                          C
'Cause if you're big star bound let me warn ya, it's a long, hard ride"

[Outro]
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          A#                    F                          C
If you're big star bound let me warn ya, it's a long, hard ride
                 A#
You know you got a lot of competition out there
F                                  C
Now the sound, it ain't like it was in the fifty's when I was here
             A#                  F
And then you got Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson
C                                   A#                  F
 You got Clarke and Billy Joe Shaver and David Allan Coe
C
 And you even got my son

[Fade Out]
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A# | F | C 
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