L.A.Freeway - chords, tab and comments


I first heard this song performed by Jerry Jeff Walker, who in 1975 was the first one of many artists to record it, and I still cling to his version and arrangement. He also made "Desperados Waiting for a Train" famous. Clark included of course both with his first album "Old No. 1" two years later. He has released several albums on various labels, but is mainly estimated as a considerable songwriter ... and, in fact, a luthier.
G           G7               C            Am
go pack up all your dishes  make note of all good wishes
G                   Em               A7                   D7
say goodbye to the landlord for me  sons of bitches they always bore me
G                G7          C                      Am
throw out those L.A. papers and that moldy box of vanilla wafers
G         Em                 A7                D7
adios to all this concrete  gonna get me some dirt road back street
            C                    D7              G          Bm        C
if I could just get off of that L.A. freeway without being killed or caught
G         Bm        Em                      Am                  D9        D7
down the road in a cloud of smoke for some land  some land that I ain't bought
            C                    D7            G            Bm         C
if I could just get off of that L.A. freeway without being killed or caught
G major
G
G seventh
G7
C major
C
D seventh
D7
D ninth
D9
A minor
Am
A seventh
A7
E minor
Em
B minor
Bm
Guy Clark