Road Ladies Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

CStA7/C♯raight D7into Verse 1 (Just Organ Fills between stopping and starting

until the run up to Bb9 A9) Vocal Frank

D7Don't it ever get lonesome? yeah! G7

 Don't it ever get sad when you go out on the Froad?D

(Spoken oh, there was one time in Minneapolis, when I thought I had the

clap for sure)

D7/F♯ G Don't it ever get lonesome? whoa-ho! ( SpokeCn - lonesoG7me ain't the word)

 Don't it ever get sad when you go out on a thirty day tFourD?

 You got noA7thing but groupies and promoters to love you G7

 and a pile of laundry by the hotel Ddoor. D7/F♯ G G♯dim A7 A♯9 A9

Verse 2

conventional 12 Bar Blues ) Vocal Frank

D7Don't it ever get lonesome, don't it ever give a young man the blues?

G7Don't it ever get lonesome, don't it ever make a young man wanna go back

D7home?

 When the PA7.A. system eats itG7, and the band plays some of the most terrible

 shit you've ever knowDn.D7/F♯ G G♯dim A7 A♯9 A9

Chorus

Same chords as Verse 2 except at end)

Don't you ever miss your house in the country and your hot little mamma too?

Don't you ever miss your house in the country and your hot little mamma too?

Don't you better get a shot from the doctor for what the

D D7/F♯ G G♯dim A7 to Solo over 12 Bar

Road Ladies do to you.

Verse 3

conventional 12 Bar Blues – same chords) Vocal Howard (flambé)

I know someday I will never, I'll never go out on the road again.

I know someday I will never, I ain't gonna roam the country side. No more.

I'm gonna hang up little holidays yeah

and heal my knees up, from when I was doing on the floor.

See me doing it! see me doing on the floor.

Chorus

Don't you ever miss your house in the country and your hot little mamma too?

Don't you ever miss your house in the country and your hot little mamma too?

Don't you better get a shot from the doctor for what the

DRoad LadD7/F♯ies doG toG♯dim you. A7

End

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