King of the Road - chords, tab and comments
Ever since I was a boy, this 1965 crossover record hit has resided in memory. The song about a happy hobo rapidly became a standard, and this is probably the reason for not playing it myself until recently ... added the fact that it's hard to snap fingers while playing guitar :-D
Songwriter, singer, guitarist, fiddler, drummer, TV star *and* humorist Roger Dean Miller recorded his career hit 3th of November 1964, after struggling for quite a long time with the lyrics. It started with this. The multi-talented artist died of cancer in 1992, only 56 years old, but his third wife Mary and friends still maintain an extensive memorial website. Click icon at the bottom of this page.
E F#m trailers for sale or rent B7 E rooms to let : fifty cents E F#m no phone no pool no pets B7 I ain't got no cigarettes E F#m ah but : two hours of pushin' broom B7 E buys an eight by twelve four-bit room E7 A I'm a man of means by no means B7 E king of the road [with the break, the song *should be* transposed,
even though it's not strictly nescessary, and go like this] ... F Gm I know every engineer on every train C7 F all of their children and all of their names F Bb and every handout in every town C7 and every lock that ain't locked C7 when no one's around I sing ... F Gm trailers for sale or rent C7 F rooms to let : fifty cents F Gm no phone no pool no pets C7 I ain't got no cigarettes F Gm ah but : two hours of pushin' broom C7 F buys an eight by twelve four-bit room F7 Bb I'm a man of means by no means C7 F king of the road
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