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THOUSAND ROADS - David Crosby
Em11:  x05030
E (w/ RIFF)
I used to walk around with my eyes on fire
My nerves real close to my skin
Had a fistful of questions and a brand on my cheek
We would skate where the ice got thin
CHORUS 1:
 G/F#                         G            D                 A(Em11)
     And the smoke blowin' down from a cabin on the hill
                   G              D     A(Em11)
And smoke blowin' down in the street
              G                  D               A(Em11)
Some kind of sweet smelling mystical backdrop
TGo the story unDfolding at my feAet
There's an edge to the twist of the acrobat in the air
There's an edge to the twist of the knife
There's a hard heart of darkness hovering there
Just around the corner from life
CHORUS 2:
And I, I have no answers
I got no patented path to set you free
Besides, I wouldn't know where you wanted to go
And it's probably not the same place as me
Now there's a thousand roads up this mountain
You can get lost in a minute if you try
And it's probably enough that I was just laughing today
And looking this close in your eye
CHORUS 3:
I said there's a thousand roads up this mountain, yeah
You can get lost in a minute if you try
It's probably enough that I was just laughing today
Looking this close in your eye
In your eye
In your eye
RIFF:
  (E)
e|----------------------------|
B|----------------------------|
G|----------------------------|
D|-----0---------2---(2)-(2)--|
A|-0h2------------------------|
E|-------3(bend)--------------|

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Thousand Roads

by David Crosby

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G/F#

Em11

THOUSAND ROADS - David Crosby

Em11: x05030

E (w/ RIFF)

I used to walk around with my eyes on fire

My nerves real close to my skin

Had a fistful of questions and a brand on my cheek

We would skate where the ice got thin

CHORUS 1:

G/F# G D A Em11

()

And the smoke blowin' down from a cabin on the hill

G D A Em11

()

And smoke blowin' down in the street

G D A Em11

()

Some kind of sweet smelling mystical backdrop

G D A

To the story unfolding at my feet

There's an edge to the twist of the acrobat in the air

There's an edge to the twist of the knife

There's a hard heart of darkness hovering there

Just around the corner from life

CHORUS 2:

And I, I have no answers

I got no patented path to set you free

Besides, I wouldn't know where you wanted to go

And it's probably not the same place as me

Now there's a thousand roads up this mountain

You can get lost in a minute if you try

And it's probably enough that I was just laughing today

And looking this close in your eye

CHORUS 3:

I said there's a thousand roads up this mountain, yeah

You can get lost in a minute if you try

It's probably enough that I was just laughing today

Looking this close in your eye

In your eye

RIFF:

()

e|----------------------------|

B|----------------------------|

G|----------------------------|

D|-----0---------2---(2)-(2)--|

A|-0h2------------------------|

E|-------3(bend)--------------|

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