Paperback Book
Jon Trafton
the riff
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** main verse/theme is G F C. I believe this is played in cut time - 2/2, but if
you count it
out it out 1-2-3-4 the G will be on 1 and 2, F on the 3 and C on
the 4. **
I know, I know, I know, please don't tell me
You heard I'm headed down
a one-way road
everybody's following the story
Nothing that I feel the
need to know
What is yet to come is anybody's guess
Worry too much about future
happiness
Instead of taking things for what they are right now
Spend my
whole life living out the past
C C# D G x2
So I'm packing everything I own in boxes
Head out to the border out of
town
Throw it off the bridge and hit the highway
Don't know where I'm
headed or where I'm bound
F
Learn your life from a paperback
book
F# G
And never from the chances you
took
F
F# G
Is it possible to know true happiness without sorrow?
Leaving this old town won't cause me trouble
Wish I'd done it sooner than
today
Faltered at the starting gate for ages
Now it's time I get out on my
way
C C# D G x2
jam is three 2/2 bars of G and one of F C
Well my car broke down in the middle of the scenery
Walked ten miles with
my thumb out but no one sees me
The blisters on my feet about to kill
me
Summer heat a 'weighin' on my back
F
People round here are nice I'm told
F# G
but they keep passing by all the
same
F
F# G
Some folks simply roll along while others are just strange
Well I get myself from one jam into another
Test my patience - test my
will to fly
Nothing's gonna block my destination
Cause it keeps on
changing places in my mind