A                               D     A  
Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich   
A              E       A  
And welcome me back to town  
A                              D              A  
Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlour  
         B                        E  
And I'll show you how it all went down  
A                             A7                     D  
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels  
      A                           D  
And a good saloon in every single town  


    D          E                  A  
And I remember something you once told me  
    D                 E               A  
And I'll be damned if it did not come true  
D               E            A     C#m   F#m               
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down  
    D                E                     A  
And they all lead me straight back home to you  


         C#m            D       E        A   
`Cause I headed West to grow up with the country  
 F#m                  E                 A  
Across those prairies with the waves of grain  
      C#m                 D      E         A  
And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea  
      D                      E           D           E       A  
And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennesee  


A                            D     A  
We flew straight across that river bridge,  
A          E         A  
last night half past two  
A                              D                A  
The switchman wave his lantern goodbye and good day  
   B              E  
as we went roling through  
A                         A7                   D  
Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel  
        A                       D  
And now I know just what I have to do  

{SOLO}  
        C#m              D           E  A  
And the man on the radio won't leave me alone  
 F#m                          E                              A  
He wants to take my money for something that I've never been shown  
      C#m                 D      E         A  
And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea  
      D                      E           D           E       A  
And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennesee  


A                            D         A  
The news I could bring I met up with the king  
A              E           A  
On his head an amphetamine crown  
A                          D              A  
He talked about unbuckling that old bible belt  
    B                           E  
And lighted out for some desert town  
A                             A7                     D  
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels  
      A                           D  
And a good saloon in every single town  


    D          E                  A  
And I remember something you once told me  
    D                 E               A  
And I'll be damned if it did not come true  
D               E            A     C#m   F#m               
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down  
    D                E                     A  
And they all lead me straight back home to you  


D               E            A     C#m   F#m               
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down  
    D                E                     A  
And they all lead me straight back home to you