King of the Road - chords, tab and comments
At the bottom you'll find a link to the complete lyrics.
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.