Won’t you (Bb)scratch my itch, sweet (Eb)An nie Rich,

and wel come me (F)back to town.

Come out of your porch or step in to your (Bb)par lor and I’ll (C)tell you how it all went down.

(Bb)Out with the truck ers and the (Bb7)kick ers and the cow boy an gels,

and a (Bb)good sa loon in (Bb7)ev ’ry sin gle town.

Oh, and (Eb)I re mem bered some thing you once told me,

and I’ll be damned if it did not come true.

(Eb)Twen ty thou sand roads

I went (Bb)down,

(F)down,

(Gm)down,

and (Eb)they all led me straight back home to (Bb)you.

’Cause I head ed on west the ra di o to (Eb)grow up (F)with the coun try,

He wants a (Gm)cross those prai ries for with those that waves I’ve nev er been of shown.

grain.

And I saw my dev il,

and I saw my deep blue sea.

And I (Eb)thought a bout a cal i co (F)bon net

from (Eb)Chey enne to (F)Ten nes see.

(Bb)We flew straight a cross that (Eb)riv er bridge

last night, (F)half past two.

Switch man waved his lan tern good bye and good day as (C)we went roll ing through.

Bill boards and truck stops pass by the griev ous an gel,

and (Bb)now I know just (F7)what I have to (Bb)do.

And the

The (Bb)news I could bring I met (Eb)up with the king; on his head, an am (F)phet a mine crown.

Talked a bout un buck ling that old Bi ble (Bb)belt and light ed (C)out for some des ert town.

(Bb)Out with the truck ers and the (Bb7)kick ers and the cow boy an

gels,

and a (Bb)good sa loon in (Bb7)ev ’ry sin gle town.

Oh, but (Eb)I re mem bered some thing you once told me,

and I’ll be damned if it did not come true.

(Eb)Twen ty thou sand roads

I went (Bb)down, (F)down,

(Gm)down,

and (Eb)they all led me straight back home to (Bb)you.

(Eb)Twen ty thou sand roads

I went (Bb)down, (F)down,

(Gm)down,

and (Eb)they all led me straight back home to (Bb)you.