Johnny Cash – The Road To Kaintuck (Guitar)
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Chords
Based off of Ian_K [a]'s tab for the Pleasant Sisters' version of this song.
They play it on Capo 2, Cash plays it with no capo.
Around 110 bpm
[Intro]
1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 4
G C G | G D G
G C G | G D G
[Chorus]
G We're goin' west to Kaintuck down the road to Moccasin Gap C Down the wilderness road G C G The Dug Road the old Reedy Creek Road C G The road down to Troublesome D G The road through Moccasin Gap
[Narration, Verse 1]
G C G D G G C G D G There was a time when going way out West meant going to Kaintuck G C G D G The dark and bloody ground as Indians called it G C G G D G Indians wars were ragin' and men like Daniel Boone and Michael Stoner G C G G D G Came down the wilderness road like countless families did G C G G D G Through a place in south West Virginia called Big Moccasin Gap
G C G G D G
G C G G D G It's a hot day in '73 and this is my wife and my kids with me G C G G D G Daniel Boone lost his boy the other day, "young Jim Boone is dead twenty miles away" G C G G D G The wagons turn and went back home, even Daniel couldn't make it alone G C G G D G I guess probably Daniel could but he stopped awhile in Castlewood
G D G A
[Middle 8]
(Embrace the key change!)
A Well if you love your wife and love your baby man D You better turn them wagons back as soon as you
can
A Ev'ry Injun in these hills has gone berserk E A And you're never gonna make it to Kaintuck
A G [Key changes back]
[Chorus]
G We're goin' west to Kaintuck down the road to Moccasin Gap C Down the wilderness road G C G The Dug Road the old Reedy Creek Road C G The road down to Troublesome D G The road through Moccasin Gap
[Outro]
C G The Dug Road the old Reedy Creek Road C G The road down to Troublesome D G The road through Moccasin Gap
G C G G D G (X2)
G G D G (X2) - END -