King of the Road - guitar chords and comments
Lyrics without distraction HERE
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 :-DSongwriter, singer, guitarist, fiddler, drummer, TV star AND humorist Roger Dean Miller(1936-1992) recorded his career's biggest hit 3th of November 1964, after struggling for six weeks with the lyrics. Pretty strange for a man known for writing songs in five minutes.
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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