Cold Chisel – Houndog (Guitar)

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[Verse Riff]
  1 2 3 4  1 2 3 4
E|--------|--------|
B|--------|--------|
G|--------|--------|
D|--------|--------|
A|00706053|--------|
E|--------|00706053|

[Intro] G G [Verse 1]

Am               Em                Am            Em
Hump that coffin up round one more bend

Am               Em                Am            Em
Hump that coffin up round one more bend

        Am           Em            Am             Em
If your head needs a bandage try a roadhouse open sandwich

Am                     Em           Am            Em
Dodge the waitress and hit the road again

      Am                Em            Am            Em
I got dog's disease and asphalt on my shoes

      Am                Em            Am            Em
I got dog's disease and asphalt on my shoes

[Chorus]

          Am
I got the houndog sittin' on the side of the road

D
Houndog sittin' on the side of the road

C                      G                   D
Houndog sittin' on the side of the highway blues. Yeah the highway blues

Am Em Am Em [Verse 2]

         Am                      Em                  Am            Em
I coulda flown East-West but the ticket was outta my range

  Am                        Em                     Am            Em
I coulda gone rail but they said I looked a little strange

    Am                 Em                Am                  Em
The Budget girl's just got the sack. The interstate bus just breaks my back

    Am                       Em                    Am                  Em
I'm sick of getting home and counting my remaining change

[Chorus]

          Am
I got the houndog sittin' on the side of the road

D
Houndog sittin' on the side of the road

C                      G                   D
Houndog sittin' on the side of the highway blues. Yeah the highway blues

G G G G [Bridge]

A                Asus4
Ride the line to Hornsby station

A              Asus4    Em    A
Find my circus animals again. Undenied

A             Asus4
Don't need no communication

A                      Asus4      Em    A
Through the ghost-towns, and fade away. I'm outside

    A                  Em          A
The railway don't come out here no more

         G  F  A
And it's cold

G          F      A
Through Nambucca, up the coast

G          F       A
Grass is greener. Girls are sweeter

  D       C      A                  D   C   A
I did it all the last ten summers

G         F          A
Leave the waves and change the culture

G        F       A
Choose a far off name that suites ya

G     F        A
Bali, Bangkok, overland

G     F        A
Asian highway, Amsterdam

G      F         A         Em
Always some town unexplored

    D      C            A5             A5 
And in the end it's the motion is it's own reward

              A5     A5
It's just the motion

[Solo] C C D D C G D Bm

         C
I've had petrol-heads and country hicks

D
Bible-freaks and lunatics

C              G              D
Fifty miles to go and I'll be home

        Bm
I'll be home

          C
I got the houndog sittin' on the side of the road

D
Houndog sittin' on the side of the road

C                      G                   D
Houndog sittin' on the side of the highway blues

  A5
Ahhhhh-ooooooooo