{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1667624,"song":"Hitchiker","artist":"John Denver","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1667624-hitchiker-chords-by-john-denver/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1667624?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIf you're riding down the road and you come across an old man[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nholding out his thumb in the wind.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nClothes are old and dirty, that doesn't matter,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A7[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch] \r\nit's his eyes that tell you where he's been.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIf you're not afraid to take your chances on a stranger,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nhe might have some company to lend.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nPull off to the side, let the old man have a ride. [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A7[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe'll tell you all the crazy things he's seen.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bb[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI'm an old hitchhiker, highway is the only home I know.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bb[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhere you headed, I don't mind. I ain't been there in some time,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A7[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nbut it's just exactly where I wanna go.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI can tell you how I started in the circus as a barker [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\ncalling people in from far and wide.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThey never did regret the dollar that it cost them,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A7[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch] \r\nwe always left 'em feeling good inside.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWe were headed for Montana when we hired us a dancer, [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D7[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nher beauty it was more than I can say.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThen one summer night she set my soul on fire, [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A7[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLord, I wish that she was here with me today.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bb[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI'm an old hitchhiker, wonder what's awaiting round the bend.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bb[/ch]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI don't know what I might see, I don't need no guarantee,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]\r\njust a ride from here to there and back again.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI was only seventeen when I took the open highway,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch] \r\ntook it for my teacher and a friend.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI've been thirty years of thumbing, some might call it bumming,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A7[/ch]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nit's better than just crying in the wind.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIf you're driving down the road and you come across an old man,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D7[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nholding out his thumb in the rain.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou can pull off to the side, let the poor boy have a ride,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A7[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nhe can tell you all the crazy things he's seen.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bb[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI'm an old hitchhiker, looking to the far side of the hill.[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Bb[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSome people say I'll settle down, build a home in some small town.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A7[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut in my heart I know I never will, [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Bb[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'm an old hitchhiker.[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["G","Am","D7","Em","A7","D","Bb","F"],"chord_diagrams":{"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}