Country Road chords by Margo Price

• Difficulty: Beginner

♫ Intro:

Am Am G G
Fmaj7 F F Am




♫ Verse :
Am                 G
Hey kid where ya goin' with those brand new wheels you got
   F                          Am
You think you're gonna last forever, forever says you're not

     Am                G
Won't ya take me down this gravel road and out a little ways
 F                          Am Am
Forget about this prison town, these goddamn summer days

Dm        C          G         Am
 Ever since you went away well it's gotten bad 'round here
 F         C         G       G
Sometimes I wanna see it burn in my rear-view mirror

 Dn         C          G     Am
You're so lucky you made it out and you don't even know
    F             C      G     G
But I still see your car driving up and down County road

    Am Am G G
County road
    F  F F Am
County road




♫ Verse :
 Am                    G
I've got this joint let's go get high and shoot a little dice
Fmaj7                   F        Am
I'll pour some gin you can buy me in oh, wouldn't that be nice

 Am                       G
Ever since the storm came through well there's not much left to save
  F      Fmaj7                      Am
Developers they bought your house they're gonna tear it down in May

Dm            C        G        Am
Keep waking up from this nightmare dream time cuts like a knife
F               C                  G   G
I wish I could have back what I didn't know were the best years of my life

Dm          C         G     Am
Maybe I'm lucky I'm already dead and I don't even know
    F             C                G     G
But I still see your headlights runnin' through the trees out on County road

    Am Am
County road


[Instrumental/Solo}
Am Am Em G
Am Am F  D D




♫ Verse :
  Am              G
Remember when we got drunk that time in Ontario
 F                  Am
Listening to Warren Zevon on the stereo (stereo, stereo)

Am                         G
I keep thinking 'bout that very last night when we went down to the bar
 F                             Am
And even though you're no longer here you'll never be that far

Dm       C       G           Am
 Hey kid you know it's been three years since the change
 F         C            G        G
The band broke up, boys don't talk and the city's rearranged

Dm         C         G       Am
No one's lucky and no one's saved and no one really knows
  F             C           G     G
Why it was you who had to go down like that out on County road

    Am Am G G
County Road


♫ Outro:
    F   F F Am Am Am
Why it was you
    G  G  F F F Am Am Am G G F F - FADE OUT
Why it was yooooou