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THE RIDE
by: David Allan Coe

Intro: A# F C, repeated twice.

CC Piano Chord 
                                    D#D# Piano Chord 

I was thumbin' back from Montgomery
D#D# Piano Chord 

with a guitar on my back
FF Piano Chord 
                                           CC Piano Chord 

When a stranger pulled up beside me in an antique Cadillac.
CC Piano Chord 
                                     D#D# Piano Chord 

Well, he was dressed like 1950, half drunk and hallow eyed
FF Piano Chord 
                                               CC Piano Chord 

Its a long walk to Nashville, would you like a ride, son.
CC Piano Chord 
                                    D#D# Piano Chord 

He sat down in the front seat, and turned on the radio
FF Piano Chord 
                                             CC Piano Chord 

and them sad old songs comin' outta them speakers was solid country gold.
CC Piano Chord 
                                                         D#D# Piano Chord 

Then I noticed the stranger was ghost white pale when he asked me for a light.
FF Piano Chord 
                                           CC Piano Chord 

And knew there was somethin' strange about this ride.

CHORUS:
A#A# Piano Chord 
                       FF Piano Chord 
                     CC Piano Chord 

He said: Mister can you make folks cry when you play and sang.
CC Piano Chord 

Can you pay your dues, can you moan the blues
GG Piano Chord 

Can you bend them guitar strangs.
A#A# Piano Chord 
                      FF Piano Chord 
                   CC Piano Chord 

He said: Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside,
A#A# Piano Chord 
                    FF Piano Chord 
                        CC Piano Chord 

Cause if your big star bound let me warn you its a long hard ride.

2.

Well, he cried just south of Nashville, and he turned that car around.
he said: (spoken) this is where you get off, boy
cause I'm going back to Alabam'.
I stepped out of that ole Cadillac and I said Mister, many thanks.
he said you don't have to call me mister, Mister.
The whole world calls me Hank.

repeat Chorus once or twice, depending on how you want to play it.

Well, here is one of them DAC songs. You can post or whatever you would
like to do with them.  I had to do this by memory, so play it and see if it
is correct.  Looking forward to a new newsletter.  Later!