Capo 1 
 
         C5    
This old highway seems so lonesome  
            E5 
When you're goin' where you've been 
      F5 
And a lonesome song can make you cry 
G5 
Time and time again 
       C5 
If I'd listened to a friend of mine 
    A5 
Ten years ago today 
           F5  
I'd have a better job 
                     G5 
Than what I've got today 
 
 
        C5 
But the billboards on the highway 
        E5 
And the brake lights on the cars 
        F5 
Make me jump out on the highway 
        G5 
With my bag and my guitar 
       C5 
If she comes or if she goes 
           A5 
It doesn't matter anymore 
          F5         G5            C5 
Cause I'm ridin' my thumb to Mexico 


F5         G5            C5 C5 A5 
Ridin' my thumb to Mexico-o--o 
F5               G5             C5 
It don't matter when or how I go 
F5             G5           C5   C5   A5 
I'm ridin' my thumb til I see her again 
    F5        G5            C5 
I'm ridin my thumb to Mexico  
 
 
The reason why she left me's 
Not the reason that I'm here 
I'm a travlin' kind of man 
Just need a change of atmosphere 
If there's any place I haven't been 
At all that's where I'll go 
So I'm ridin' my thumb to Mexico 
 
Chorus