Standard (EADGBE)

 Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich

And welcome me back to town

Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlor

 And I'll show you how it all went down

Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels

 And a good saloon in every single town

 Oh and I remembered something you once told me

 And I'll be damned if it did not come true

Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down

 And they all lead me straight back home to you

 `Cause I headed West to grow up with the country

 Across those prairies with those waves of grain

 And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea

 And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee

 We flew straight across that river bridge, last night half past two

Switchman wave his lantern goodbye and good day as we went rolling through

Billboards and truck stops pass by the grievous angel

 And now I know just what I have to do

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 And the man on the radio won't leave me alone

 He wants to take my money for something that I've never been shown

 And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea

 And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee

 The news I could bring I met up with the king

 On his head an amphetamine crown

 He talked about unbuckling that old bible belt

 And lighted out for some desert town

Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels

 And a good saloon in every single town

 Oh but I remembered something you once told me

 And I'll be damned if it did not come true

Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down

 And they all lead me straight back home to you

Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down

 And they all lead me straight back home to you