Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

Sittin in six lane backed up traffic

Horns a honkin, I've about had it

I'm lookin for an exit sign

 Gotta get outta here, get it all off my mind

And like a memory from your grandpa's attic

A song comes slippin through the radio static

Changin my mood

 A little George Strait 1982

Chorus

And it makes me wanna take a back road

 Makes me wanna take the long way home

Put a little gravel in my travel

 Unwind, unravel all night long

Makes me wanna grab my honey

Tear down some two lane country

 Who knows

 Get lost and get right with my soul

 Makes me wanna take, makes me wanna take a back road

Verse 2

I've been cooped up, tied down

 'Bout forgotten what a field looks like full of corn and cotton

 If I'm gonna hit a traffic jam

 Well it better be a tractor man

 So sick and tired of this interstate system

 I need the curvin, windin, twistin dusty path to nowhere

 With the wind blowin through my baby's hair

Chorus

And it makes me wanna take a back road

 Makes me wanna take the long way home

Put a little gravel in my travel

 Unwind, unravel all night long

Makes me wanna grab my honey

Tear down some two lane country

 Who knows

 Get lost and get right with my soul

 Makes me wanna take, makes me wanna take a back road