The Open Road
John Hiatt

NOTE: Lead is played CAPO on 7th fret

INTRO (4x):
Bm   G    D

Bm                G          D
Shrunken head and mardi gras beads
Bm                     G           D
Hanging on a rear view mirror that bleeds
Bm                      G    D
Keepin' her eyes on the open road
Bm                   G        D    
No telln' where that sumbitch goes

Bm    G    D   (2x)

Bm                         G       D
Got her doors locked doin' seventy five
Bm                           G       D
Don't care to be caught now, dead or alive
Bm                  G        D
Seen enough to kill anyone's soul
Bm                     G    D
Keepin her eyes on the open road
Bm                     G    D
Keepin her eyes on the open road

CHORUS
G                       A         D
The open road where the hopeless come
G          A         D
To see if hope still runs
G                                      A
One by one they bring their broke down loads
G                            A
And leave 'em where the hobo dreams are stowed
           Bm   G    D    A
Out on the open road
           Bm   G    D    A
Out on the open road

Bm    G    D   (2x)
 

Bm                      G      D
Midnight fallin' like a bag of bones
Bm                    G         D
Weighted down now the rest with stones
Bm                         G            D
Bouncing off the river the moon made of steel
Bm                           G        D
Crackin' off the chrome of a steering wheel

Bm                     G          D
Anything back there is burned and dead
Bm                      G          D
Any love they made, any words they said
Bm                    G           D
Nothing to do now but drop it and roll
Bm                     G    D
Into the lights of the open road
Bm                     G    D
Into the lights of the open road

G                       A         D
The open road where the hopeless come
G          A         D
To see if hope still runs
G                                      A
One by one they bring their broke down loads
G                            A
And leave 'em where the hobo dreams are stowed
           Bm   G    D    A
Out on the open road
           Bm   G    D    A
Out on the open road

Bm    G    D   (4x)

Bm                G          D
Shrunken head and mardi gras beads
Bm                     G           D
Hanging on a rear view mirror that bleeds
Bm                      G    D
Keepin' her eyes on the open road
Bm                   G        D    
No telln' where that sumbitch goes

G                       A         D
The open road where the hopeless come
G          A         D
To see if hope still runs
G                                      A
One by one they bring their broke down loads
G                            A
And leave 'em where the hobo dreams are stowed
           Bm   G    D    A
Out on the open road
           Bm   G    D    A
Out on the open road
           Bm   G    D    A
Out on the open road
           Bm   G    D    A
Out on the open road