G D C C (x4)  

G           D              C          
A young man driving down a dusty road
G         D                C 
Like he's got somewhere to go
G                 D           C      
Driving like he's got a desti-nation
          G                D                  C     
Like he's got somewhere to go in that beat-up Ford.
G                D                  C                
See, there was a time when he was a young lost soul 
       G       D               C 
He was chasing butterflies and rainbows
G       D                     C 
Til one day when he found his pot of gold
        G          D                    C 
And the words of a young man who turned old. 
 
Chorus: 
            G
The old man said,
                     D         C      
"You've gotta have a good imagination,
G               D                C 
If you're gonna live the life of old",
              G                 D                C 
He said, "you got to drive that Ford like it's a stallion,
        G                D                 C
And you got to wear your heart just like a gun."
            G  D C   
The old man said,
            G  D C 
The old man said. 
G                                     C
The boy walked D out with a new-found hero,
          G            D             C 
Yeah, the boy, well he walked away a man,
       G           D               C              
And he said to him-self that dusty day way down in Texas, 
          G           D              C
Well, I'm never gonna walk this path again. 
 
Repeat chorus, then 
G D C  (x2) 

G              D                      C 
The boy walked out he was dreaming of wild times,
     G            D               C
When old cowboys, they broke down cattle lines. 
    G             D                  C
But now all those fields are all but gone, 
    G                  D            C
His heart's still free and he rides on... 
            G  D C
The old man said 
            G  D C
The old man said 
            G  D C
The old man said 
            G  D C
The old man said  
            G
The old man (big strum )} said.