Merle Haggard - The Fugitive - Ramblin Fever
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
The Fugitive/Ramblin Fever
by Merle Haggard
G C D
Down every road there's always one more city
C D G
I'm on the run, the highway is my home.
G C D
I raised a lot of cane back in my younger days
C D G
While Mama used to pray my crops would fail
C D
Now I'm a hunted fugitive with just two ways
C D G
Outrun the law or spend my life in jail.
[Chorus]
G C D
I'd like to settle down but they won't let me
C D
A fugitive must be a rolling stone
G C D
Down every road there's always one more city
C D G
I'm on the run, the highway is my home.
[Instrumental]
G C D C D G
[Verse 3]
G C D
I'm lonely but I can't afford the luxury
C D G
Of having one I love to come along
C D
She'd only slow me down and they'd catch up with me
C D G
For he who travels fastest goes alone.
[Chorus]
G C D
I'd like to settle down but they won't let me
C D
A fugitive must be a rolling stone
G C D
Down every road there's always one more city
C D G
I'm on the run, the highway is my home.
[Outro]
G C D G
I'm on the run, the highway is my home
G C G D G C D G
Ramblin Fever
C
My hat don't hang on the same nail too long
G D
My ears can't stand to hear the same old song
G C G
An' I don't leave the highway long enough to bog down in the mud
D G
'cause I've got ramblin' fever in my blood
[Verse 2]
C
I caught this ramblin' fever long ago
G D
When I first heard a lonesome whistle blow
G C G
If someone said I ever gave a damn, they damn sure told you wrong
D G
I've had ramblin' fever all along
[Chorus]
C
Ramblin' fever
G D
The kind that can't be measured by degrees
G C
Ramblin' fever
G D G
There ain't no kind of cure for my disease
[Verse 3]
C
There's times I'd like to bed down on a sofa
G C
And let some pretty lady rub my back
G
And spend the early morning drinking coffee
D G
And talkin' about when I'll be coming back
[Verse 4]
C
'cause I don't let no woman tie me down
G D
And I'll never get too old to get around
G C G
I want to die along the highway and rot away like some old high-line pole
D G
Rest this ramblin' fever in my soul
[Chorus]
C
Ramblin' fever
G D
The kind that can't be measured by degrees
G C
Ramblin' fever
G D G
There ain't no kind of cure for my disease, yeah
[End]
G C G D G C G D G
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