Verse
B F#/A# B
I'm out here a thousand miles from my home
E B/D# F#/C# B
Walkin' a road other men have gone down
B F#/A# B
I'm seein' your world of people and things
B B/F# F#/C# B
Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings
[Verse 2]
B F#/A# B
Hey hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a song
E B/D# F#/C# B
'Bout a funny old world that's comin' along
B F#/A# B
Seems sicked it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn
B B/F# F#/C# B
It looks like it's a-dyin' and it's hardly been born
[Verse 3]
B F#/A# B
Hey hey Woody Guthrie but I know that you know
E B/D# F#/C# B
All the things that I'm sayin' and a many times more
B F#/A# B
I'm singin' you this song, but I can't sing enough
B B/F# F#/C# B
'Cause there's not many men that done the things that you done
[Verse 4]
B F#/A# B
Here's to Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly too
E B/D# F#/C# B
And to all the good people that traveled with you
B F#/A# B
Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
B B/F# F#/C# B
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind
[Verse 5]
B F#/A# B
I'm leavin' tomorrow but I could leave today
E B/D# F#/C# B
Somewhere down the road someday
B F#/A# B
The very last thing that I'd want to do
B B/F# F#/C# B
Is to say I've been hittin' some hard travelin' too