Rambling Waltz

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G G Am Am*

Alone on the stage, you're a cowboy in lights

D D* C G

Charming the audience, night after night

G G Am Am*

They clap their hands for you, they all wish you well

D D* C D D* Dsus4 D

They go home to families, you go home to hotels

Well there's cranky bartenders, old chambermaids

Young waitresses who might like to get laid

Some treat you with contempt, and some with respect

Their faces stay with you, their names you forget

You're a rambler, a singer of songs

Am G C D D* Dsus4 D

Women don't understand, and don't wait for you long

G G Am Am*

Now you gotta keep moving, travelling on

D D* C G C G C

The road's calling you, and you wish you were gone

Well, some call you a rambler, some call you a rogue

Some think you're a gambler, some think you're a joke

If I knew you better, I might not agree

But all I know of you is what I can see

With guitar in your hand and the light in your eyes

You come on so strong, you appear to be wise

When it's all over, you've nothing to so

But sit in some barroom and down quite a few

You're a rambler, a singer of songs

Women don't understand, and don't stay with you for very long

Now you gotta keep moving, travelling on

The road's calling you, and you wish you were gone

Oh you're tired of the East Coast, you long for the West

Where the sun always shines, and the beer tastes the best

But you need what you're getting up there on the stage

And you like making more than a journeyman's wage

So you're trapped in the music that you do so well

You're trapped in the comforts of fancy hotels

It's nothing you've said, I just think I can tell

If you had your way, you'd be gone

You're a rambler, a singer of songs

Women don't understand, and don't love you for long

Now you gotta keep moving, travelling on

The road's calling you, and you wish you were gone

G G Am Am*

Now you gotta keep moving, travelling on

D [stop] C [stop] G C G C G C G.

The road's calling you, now you're gone

The intro uses this picking pattern, and the rest of the song is

similar, but I can't exactly figure it out.

E ------3-----|------3-----|

B 0-----------|-1----------|

G --------0---|--------0---|

D ----0-------|----2-------|

A ------------|3-----------|

E 3-----------|------------|

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