The Avett Brothers – The Traveling Song (Ukulele)

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Intro One and a two and three... E F C G F C

        C
Well I guess if my daddy hadn't brought me up

Down a long dirt road in a pickup truck

      F                             C
I'd feel alright, 'neath the city lights 

        G               F                   C
Couldn't leave the city lights it just ain't right 

        C
I was born out west of Cheyenne town

While my ma and pa was ramblin' 'round

         F                          C
I'm a rambler too, but I'm country bound 

       G              F              C
I'll travel till my country home is found 

            F
And I will travel (Ooh)

            C
Yeah, I will travel (Ooh)

         G              F              C
I will travel 'till my country home is found

Interlude: F C G F C

     C
Well a country song on the radio

Country star but what do you know

       F                        C
He's a city boy singin country tunes 

      G            F               C
I'm a country boy with those city blues 

         F
So I will travel 

          C
Yeah I will travel 

     G                F                 C
I will travel 'till my country home is found

Interlude: F C (2x) G F C

F
Well Chestertown (lets go)

C
Charlestown (let's go)

G
Albany (lets go)

F
Neptune (lets go)

C
Pittsburgh (let's go)

G
Cleveland town (let's go)

[Repeat F C G C 2x]

C 
I've got the wheels to ride and the wheels to run,

Some say I got ramblin' in my blood

      F                      C
No pretty girl can slow me down 

       G              F                  C
I'll travel 'till my country home is found 

          F
So I will travel 

        C
I will travel 

        G              F                C
I will travel till my country home is found 

               F
Yeah, I will travel 

        C
I will travel 

        G                F               C
I will travel 'till my country home is found