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Twelve Mile Road by Jason Dea West
Twelve Mile Road
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:C
Capo:5th fret
The C is normally played like a C/G (332010), I noted a simple C for reasons of
clarity
Hard to pinpoint the timing as it's sung with a loose rythm, just listen to the
original for the right groove
[Intro]
G C G
G C G
[Verse 1]
G C
There’s an old gravel road
G D
It's following the section line
G G/F# Em
Out where dreams are held together
C G
With sweat and baling twine
G C
Where you rattle your bones on a tractor
G D
Over thirty years old
G G/F# Em
And there’s a mortgage and kids to be fed
C D G
Out on Twelve Mile Road
[Verse 2]
G C
Well, it's just a stretch of country
G D
The wind comes blowing through
G G/F# Em
The Homesteaders starved out and blew away
C D
Ain't nobody out here but you
G C
And you know someday it’s gonna turn around
G D
But Lord, it turns so slow
G G/F# Em
But it ain’t rained since April
C D G
Out on Twelve Mile Road
[Chorus]
D G
Out on Twelve Mile Road
D Em
Lord it turns so slow
C G Em
Hanging on to a ragged dream
G D G C G
Out on Twelve Mile Road
[Verse 3]
G C
Now you raised some hay and a few head of cows
G D
You swing a hammer in town
G G/F# Em
You do anything you can goddamn do
C G
To keep your feet on the ground
G C
Cause if a man works hard enough
G D
He can turn that straw into gold
G G/F# Em
Or ain’t that the way it’s supposed to be
C D G
Out on Twelve Mile Road?
[Chorus]
D G
Out on Twelve Mile Road
D Em
Lord it turns so slow
C G Em
Hanging on to a ragged dream
C D G
Out on Twelve Mile Road
[Interlude]
G C D G
[Verse 4]
G C
Now you dream of the day when the air is clean
G D
The fences all run true
G G/F# Em
All of your worries just vanished like smoke
C G
And all the hard times are through
G C
You’ll look down from the top of the hill
G D
Your dreams are there to hold
G G/F# Em
Or ain’t that the way that it’s supposed to be
C D G
Out on Twelve Mile Road?
[Chorus]
D G
Out on Twelve Mile Road
D Em
Lord it turns so slow
C G Em
I've been hanging on to a ragged dream
G D G
Out on Twelve Mile Road
D G
Out on Twelve Mile Road
D Em
Lord it turns so slow
C G Em
Hanging on to a ragged dream
C D G
Out on Twelve Mile Road
[Outro]
C D G
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