• Song:

    Sorrow Is A Highway

  • Artist:

    Yonder Mountain String Band

  • Album:

    Town By Town

Tabbed by AJ C.
Key E minor

This is a pretty number off Town by Town. It's fairly simple. I am going by the 
album version since I have not heard them play it live.

Intro:
Em (022000@1)  G (320003@1) C (x32010@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D   G (320003@1)Verse 1:
GMy (320003@1)heart is like the white line
C (x32010@1)           D (xx0232@1)           C (x32010@1)      D (xx0232@1)  GDivided, (320003@1)separated in these feelings over you
GMy (320003@1)mind, it is also like the white line      when without a bassist,
C (x32010@1)       D (xx0232@1)          C (x32010@1)     D (xx0232@1)   G (320003@1)     walk down G (320003@1)name="chord_320002@1">G/F# G/FEndlessly (120003@1)searching, a man without a clue

Chorus:
Em (022000@1)                             G (320003@1)         DYou've (xx0232@1)got me thinking there's a fire down below
C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)   
'Round and 'round in circles is as far as I can go
C (x32010@1)                          G (320003@1)    G/F# (320002@1)name="chord_022000@1">Em
Same old repetition, feeling up and down again
G (320003@1)         C (x32010@1) D*
Sorrow is a highway
   C (x32010@1)   D (xx0232@1)      GIt (320003@1)never seems to end

Jam 1: verse chords

Verse 2:
GAnother (320003@1)day, it is ending
  C (x32010@1)            D (xx0232@1)
I feel my feet upon the ground
    C (x32010@1)       D (xx0232@1)  GAnd (320003@1)know they walk alone
GWhat (320003@1)do I care now though if another day is ending
    C (x32010@1)             D (xx0232@1)            C (x32010@1)       D (xx0232@1)    GThe (320003@1)days will end until my name is carved in stone alone

[ Chorus ]

Jam 2: Verse chords x2
       Chorus chords

Verse 3:
GThe (320003@1)time has come for leavin'
    C (x32010@1)           D (xx0232@1)          C (x32010@1)    D (xx0232@1)       GThe (320003@1)time to fall away like the pedals leave the rose
GBut (320003@1)what good does this leavin'
      C (x32010@1)                 DI (xx0232@1)can still hear my heart breakin'
    C (x32010@1)      D (xx0232@1)   Gthe (320003@1)sound it never goes

[ Chorus ]

    C (x32010@1)                         G (320003@1)    G/F# (320002@1)name="chord_022000@1">Em
The same old repetition feelin' up and down again
G (320003@1)        C (x32010@1) D*
Sorry is a highway
   C (x32010@1)   D (xx0232@1)      GIt (320003@1)never seems to end

Outro: Intro chords

*The riff played runs down G Aeolian starting at A on the 3rd string after the D 
chord. I just mess around with it, Adam is too fast.

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