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Wide Open Road

Johnny Cash


This is a simplified version of the song that I created for a 5-year-old student. It's played on just the 6th string. Instead of chord names, only the 6th string fret number is provided.

Playing a bass line on the 6th string is the easiest way to play a song on guitar--perfect for total beginners or kids who want to sing and play at the same time.


 

Intro:  2 2 3 4 4 4 4 3   2  

            0   0   0   0

 

                0

Well, you said you had enough you said that you where leavin`

            5                            

I said shove off honey baby, I ain`t greavin’

 0

Pack your bags and pull out this evening 

               2               7 

There’s a wide open road

 

0   

Early this mornin’ you where nowhere about and so I

5

  searched the town but you had done pulled out 

              0

I looked north, east, west and then

                                    2    7       0

a-leadin’ south I saw a wide open road

 

Chorus:

                0

There’s a wide open road 

                 5                      0

It’s leadin’ south from my abode

           5                                     0

If you stick around and turn your damper down

                2    7       0

There’s a wide open road

 

                 0

Well the reason I was looking for you all over town

            5

Was to tell you that your kitty cat is still around

              0

And you left your wedding ring when you went down

         2             7 

that wide open road

 

               0

If you’re gonna stay away then honey let me know how to

  5

cook hot biscuits, how to roll the dough,

0

Everything’s gone crazy since I told you to go 

                 2   7       0

Down the wide open road

 

Chorus 2:

                 0

There’s a wide open road 

                5                      0

And honey I want you to know

             5                                      0

You can look down south or you can turn back home

                      2    7       0

And there’s a wide open road

 

Repeat Intro


This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.