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Sent to archive by: rkh2@ukc.ac.uk (Ryan Harding)
Originally posted by: cseb@frodo.lfi.uni-hannover.de (Christian Sebeke)
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The Proclaimers' version may use different chords but then you might want to
transpose it for your voice anyway.

Here we go (taken from a greatest hits collection):

KING OF THE ROAD
(Roger Miller)


Bb (x1333x@1)          Eb (x43121@3)         F (133211@1)            Bb (x1333x@1) Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents,
               Eb (x43121@3)          F (133211@1) No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes, ah but
Bb (x1333x@1)           Eb (x43121@3)                F (133211@1)       Bb (x1333x@1) Two hours of pushing broom buys an eight by twelve fourbit room,
               Eb (x43121@3)              F (133211@1)          Bb (x1333x@1) I'm a man of means by no means, King of the Road


Bb (x1333x@1)            Eb (x43121@3)           F (133211@1)          Bb (x1333x@1) Third box car midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine,
               Eb (x43121@3)           F (133211@1)             Bb (x1333x@1) Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues, I smoke
              Eb (x43121@3)         F (133211@1)                 Bb (x1333x@1) Old stogies I have found, short, but not too big around,
               Eb (x43121@3)              F (133211@1)          Bb (x1333x@1) I'm a man of means by no means, King of the Road

         B (x2444x@1)               E (022100@1) I know every engineer on every train,
  F# (244322@1)                    B (x2444x@1) All of the children and all of their names
                       E (022100@1) And every handout in every town
      F# (244322@1) And ev'ry lock that ain't locked when

  No one's around I sing ...

B (x2444x@1)           E (022100@1)          F# (244322@1)           B (x2444x@1) Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents,
               E (022100@1)           F# (244322@1) No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes, ah but
B (x2444x@1)            E (022100@1)                 F# (244322@1)             B (x2444x@1) Two hours of pushing broom buys a eight by twelve fourbit room,
               E (022100@1)               F# (244322@1)         B (x2444x@1) I'm a man of means by no means, King of the Road

rep. last verse