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 parlour

 And I'll tell 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

 And I remember something that 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 Tennesee

 We flew straight across that river bridge,

 Last night half past two

 The switchman waved his lantern goodbye and good day as we

 Went rolling through

 Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel

 And I know just what I have to do

Solo

 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 see

 And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennesee

 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 headed out for some desert town

 Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels

 And a good saloon in every single town

 And I remember something that 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