Steve Earle – Jericho Road (Guitar)

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Same pattern of chords repeated in the first part of each verse: Em (bass run: 0-2-3) - G - D - Cmaj7. The second part ("Well Joshua...") goes G - D - Cmaj7 - B7. [Intro] Em G D Cmaj7 Em G D Cmaj7 Em G D Cmaj7 Em G D Cmaj7 [Verse]
      Em   G   D                Cmaj7         Em G
I was walking, walking down the Jericho Road

    D     Cmaj7       Em        G
And every mile that I travelled showed

       D                 Cmaj7        Em G D Cmaj7
And I'm walking down the Jericho Road

               Em  G    D                Cmaj7         Em G
I just kept on walking, walking down the Jericho Road

        D       Cmaj7    Em        G
And the sun set red over fields of gold

        D               Cmaj           Em G D Cmaj7
And I'm walking down the Jericho Road
[Chorus]
     G                             D
Well Joshua fit the battle, that's how the story goes

        Cmaj7                 B7
And the walls come a-tumbling down, I know

              Em  G    D       Cmaj7                  Em G D Cmaj7
But I'm still walking, walking down the Jericho Road
[Verse]
          Em  G    D       Cmaj7              Em G D
I met my mother walking down the Jericho Road

  Cmaj7   Em  G    D       Cmaj7
Tears in her eyes and her head hung low

  Em  G    D                 Cmaj7       Em G D Cmaj7
And she was walking down the Jericho Road

          Em  G    D       Cmaj7              Em G D
I met my father walking down the Jericho Road

 Cmaj7   Em  G    D       Cmaj7
His back bent over from a heavy load

  Em  G    D                 Cmaj7       Em G D Cmaj7
And he was walking down the Jericho Road
[Chorus]
        G                             
I said, "Papa, don't you know me?

               D      
Won't you lay your burden down?"

  Cmaj7                               B7
He just shook his head and told me, "Son, you better turn around"

     Em  G    D          Cmaj7                           Em G D Cmaj7
And he kept on walking, walking down the Jericho Road
[Interlude] Em G D Cmaj7 Em G D Cmaj7 Em G D Cmaj7 Em G D Cmaj7 [Verse]
      Em   G   D                Cmaj7         Em G
I met my brother walking down the Jericho Road

    D     Cmaj7       Em        G
And his hands were bloody but his face was clean

       D                 Cmaj7        Em G D Cmaj7
And he was walking down the Jericho Road

               Em  G    D                Cmaj7         Em G
I met my sister walking down the Jericho Road

        D       Cmaj7    Em        G
With a babe in her arms that I'd never seen

        D               Cmaj           Em G D Cmaj7
And she was walking down the Jericho Road

     G                             D
She said, "It's just a little orphan child I found along the way

        Cmaj7                 B7
I'll raise him as my own, and he'll forgive us all someday"

              Em  G    D       Cmaj7                  Em G D Cmaj7
And she kept on walking, walking down the Jericho Road