Me And This Road

G F#/D Em Cadd9 An old county road runs by my house and ends on the river bank G F#/D Cadd9 In '73 they shut the ferry down G F#/D Back up the road there's a church and a store Em Cadd9 With a bench full of lying old men G F#/D Cadd9 In the middle of a wide spot they call a town G F#/D Em Cadd9 I'm just a young man living to make me old plowing these fields by the river road G F#/D Cadd9 Where hopes dreams and my granddaddy lived and died G F#/D Em Cadd9 They go as far as my eyes can see but they ain't far enough for me G F#/D Cadd9 When I drive to the river and I look at the other side G Cadd9 G Cadd9 Me and this road, we ain't been nowhere G Cadd9 D As far as I know this whole world's just a county fair Cadd9 D Em Cadd9 But somewhere there's a bridge that'll take us out of here G F#/D Cadd9 Free as a river flows me and this road G F#/D Em Cadd9 We'll find a long stretch of blacktop where there ain't no dead-end signs G F#/D Cadd9 And leave these fences fields and farms behind G F#/D Em Cadd9 There's a bigger town on a bigger road fame and fortune I've been told G F#/D Cadd9 And across that river we'll search till I find mine G Cadd9 G Cadd9 Me and this road, we ain't been nowhere G Cadd9 D As far as I know this whole world's just a county fair Cadd9 D Em Cadd9 But somewhere there's a bridge that'll take us out of here G F#/D Cadd9 Free as a river flows me and this road G F#/D Em Cadd9 Well I shook my father's hand now I'm off to find the promised land G F#/D Cadd9 And I hope I bring him back a little gold G F#/D Em Cadd You know his dream was the same as mine but it got lost somewhere in time G F#/D Cadd9 In a dusty field along that river road G Cadd9 G Cadd9 Me and this road, we ain't been nowhere G Cadd9 D As far as I know this whole world's just a county fair Cadd9 D Em Cadd9 But somewhere there's a bridge that'll take us out of here G F#/D Cadd9 Free as a river flows me and this road