Chords for Nashville Skyline TV: Rodney Crowell - Long Hard Road 1986
Tempo:
89.15 bpm
Chords used:
F#
C#
B
D#m
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Once I came to Nashville and kind of got into the system and started realizing what the professionals were really doing
and what I was going to have to do [B] to join the ranks, [A] you know.
So [Gm] it took about five years.
Actually, [C] I'm still working on it.
Writing pop songs seems to me to have evolved to a place where people are using drum machines and synthesizers
and a lot more than just say the old singer-songwriter thing that still seems to be happening in Nashville.
And that's what I am.
I'm a singer-songwriter, guitar player kind of songwriter.
The ambience, it seems, of this show is a lot like what it used to be at [B] Bishop's Pub where, you know, songwriters would come in
and just sing their songs and be characters, you know.
I'm going to do a song [F#] called The Sharecropper's Dream [E] or Long [F#] Hard Road.
Way back in my memory [B] there's a scene that I [F#] recall
[C#] A little run-down cabin in [F#] the woods
And my daddy never promised that [B] our blue moon would turn gold
[C#] But he'd lay awake nights wishing that it would
When the world was on our radio, [B] hard work was [F#] on our mind
[C#] We lived our day to day in plain [F#] dirt fashion
But old overalls and cotton [B] balls all strapped [F#] across your back
[C#] Man, it's hard to make believe there ain't nothing wrong
[D#m] Mama kept the Bible [B] read and daddy kept our family fed
[F#] And somewhere in between I must [C#] have grown
I [D#m] just kept on [B] dreaming that a song that I was singing
Takes me down the road to where my name is [C#] known
And now I [D#m] know [C#] that's a long, [F#] long road
[B] [F#] [C#]
[F#]
[B] [F#] [C#]
[F#]
And sometimes I remember when I [B] stay up late [F#] at night
[C#] Son of Cain, we got up [F#] and went
In the shadows of our working day [B] our moonlight hours spent
Singing [C#] songs along with grandma's [F#] radio
Now I'm beating down an old blacktop road, I'm [B] sleeping in a [F#] sack
[C#] Living of my memories all [F#] in vain
Those old city lights ain't all that [B] bright compared to what [F#] it's like
[C#] Lightning bugs go dancing [F#] in the rain
[D#m] Mama played the guitar [B] then and daddy made a saw [F#] blade bend
And raindrops played the tin roof [C#] like a drum
[D#m] And I just kept on [B] dreaming that a song that I was singing
Takes me [F#] down the road to where I want to [C#] go
And now I [D#m] know [C#] that's a [F#] long, long road
Yes, [D#m] I know [C#]
that's a [F#] long, long road
Mmmm
[B] [F#] [C#]
[F#]
[N] Thank you!
[G]
[F#]
and what I was going to have to do [B] to join the ranks, [A] you know.
So [Gm] it took about five years.
Actually, [C] I'm still working on it.
Writing pop songs seems to me to have evolved to a place where people are using drum machines and synthesizers
and a lot more than just say the old singer-songwriter thing that still seems to be happening in Nashville.
And that's what I am.
I'm a singer-songwriter, guitar player kind of songwriter.
The ambience, it seems, of this show is a lot like what it used to be at [B] Bishop's Pub where, you know, songwriters would come in
and just sing their songs and be characters, you know.
I'm going to do a song [F#] called The Sharecropper's Dream [E] or Long [F#] Hard Road.
Way back in my memory [B] there's a scene that I [F#] recall
[C#] A little run-down cabin in [F#] the woods
And my daddy never promised that [B] our blue moon would turn gold
[C#] But he'd lay awake nights wishing that it would
When the world was on our radio, [B] hard work was [F#] on our mind
[C#] We lived our day to day in plain [F#] dirt fashion
But old overalls and cotton [B] balls all strapped [F#] across your back
[C#] Man, it's hard to make believe there ain't nothing wrong
[D#m] Mama kept the Bible [B] read and daddy kept our family fed
[F#] And somewhere in between I must [C#] have grown
I [D#m] just kept on [B] dreaming that a song that I was singing
Takes me down the road to where my name is [C#] known
And now I [D#m] know [C#] that's a long, [F#] long road
[B] [F#] [C#]
[F#]
[B] [F#] [C#]
[F#]
And sometimes I remember when I [B] stay up late [F#] at night
[C#] Son of Cain, we got up [F#] and went
In the shadows of our working day [B] our moonlight hours spent
Singing [C#] songs along with grandma's [F#] radio
Now I'm beating down an old blacktop road, I'm [B] sleeping in a [F#] sack
[C#] Living of my memories all [F#] in vain
Those old city lights ain't all that [B] bright compared to what [F#] it's like
[C#] Lightning bugs go dancing [F#] in the rain
[D#m] Mama played the guitar [B] then and daddy made a saw [F#] blade bend
And raindrops played the tin roof [C#] like a drum
[D#m] And I just kept on [B] dreaming that a song that I was singing
Takes me [F#] down the road to where I want to [C#] go
And now I [D#m] know [C#] that's a [F#] long, long road
Yes, [D#m] I know [C#]
that's a [F#] long, long road
Mmmm
[B] [F#] [C#]
[F#]
[N] Thank you!
[G]
[F#]
Key:
F#
C#
B
D#m
A
F#
C#
B
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Once I came to Nashville and kind of got _ _ into the system and started realizing what the professionals were really doing
and what I was going to have to do [B] to join the ranks, [A] you know.
_ So [Gm] it took about five years.
Actually, [C] I'm still working on it.
Writing pop songs seems to me to have evolved to a place where people are using drum machines and synthesizers
and a lot more than just say the old singer-songwriter thing that still seems to be happening in Nashville.
And that's what I am.
I'm a singer-songwriter, guitar player kind of songwriter.
The ambience, it seems, of this show is a lot like what it used to be at [B] Bishop's Pub where, you know, songwriters would come in
and just sing their songs and be characters, you know.
I'm going to do a song [F#] called The Sharecropper's Dream [E] or Long [F#] Hard Road. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Way back in my memory [B] there's a scene that I [F#] recall
[C#] A little run-down cabin in [F#] the woods
And my daddy never promised that [B] our blue moon would turn gold
[C#] But he'd lay awake nights wishing that it would
When the world was on our radio, [B] hard work was [F#] on our mind
[C#] We lived our day to day in plain [F#] dirt fashion
_ But old overalls and cotton [B] balls all strapped [F#] across your back
[C#] Man, it's hard to make believe there ain't nothing wrong
_ _ [D#m] Mama kept the Bible [B] read and daddy kept our family fed
[F#] And somewhere in between I must [C#] have grown
I _ _ [D#m] just kept on [B] dreaming that a song that I was singing
Takes me down the road to where my name is [C#] known
And now I [D#m] know [C#] that's a long, [F#] long road _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And sometimes I remember when I [B] stay up late [F#] at night
[C#] Son of Cain, we got up [F#] and went
In the shadows of our working day [B] our moonlight hours spent
Singing [C#] songs along with grandma's [F#] radio
_ Now I'm beating down an old blacktop road, I'm [B] sleeping in a [F#] sack
_ [C#] Living of my memories all [F#] in vain
Those old city lights ain't all that [B] bright compared to what [F#] it's like
[C#] Lightning bugs go dancing [F#] in the rain
_ _ [D#m] Mama played the guitar [B] then and daddy made a saw [F#] blade bend
And raindrops played the tin roof [C#] like a drum
_ [D#m] And I just kept on [B] dreaming that a song that I was singing
Takes me [F#] down the road to where I want to [C#] go
_ And now I [D#m] know [C#] that's a [F#] long, long road
Yes, [D#m] I know [C#]
that's a [F#] long, long road
_ _ Mmmm
_ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ Thank you! _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
Once I came to Nashville and kind of got _ _ into the system and started realizing what the professionals were really doing
and what I was going to have to do [B] to join the ranks, [A] you know.
_ So [Gm] it took about five years.
Actually, [C] I'm still working on it.
Writing pop songs seems to me to have evolved to a place where people are using drum machines and synthesizers
and a lot more than just say the old singer-songwriter thing that still seems to be happening in Nashville.
And that's what I am.
I'm a singer-songwriter, guitar player kind of songwriter.
The ambience, it seems, of this show is a lot like what it used to be at [B] Bishop's Pub where, you know, songwriters would come in
and just sing their songs and be characters, you know.
I'm going to do a song [F#] called The Sharecropper's Dream [E] or Long [F#] Hard Road. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Way back in my memory [B] there's a scene that I [F#] recall
[C#] A little run-down cabin in [F#] the woods
And my daddy never promised that [B] our blue moon would turn gold
[C#] But he'd lay awake nights wishing that it would
When the world was on our radio, [B] hard work was [F#] on our mind
[C#] We lived our day to day in plain [F#] dirt fashion
_ But old overalls and cotton [B] balls all strapped [F#] across your back
[C#] Man, it's hard to make believe there ain't nothing wrong
_ _ [D#m] Mama kept the Bible [B] read and daddy kept our family fed
[F#] And somewhere in between I must [C#] have grown
I _ _ [D#m] just kept on [B] dreaming that a song that I was singing
Takes me down the road to where my name is [C#] known
And now I [D#m] know [C#] that's a long, [F#] long road _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And sometimes I remember when I [B] stay up late [F#] at night
[C#] Son of Cain, we got up [F#] and went
In the shadows of our working day [B] our moonlight hours spent
Singing [C#] songs along with grandma's [F#] radio
_ Now I'm beating down an old blacktop road, I'm [B] sleeping in a [F#] sack
_ [C#] Living of my memories all [F#] in vain
Those old city lights ain't all that [B] bright compared to what [F#] it's like
[C#] Lightning bugs go dancing [F#] in the rain
_ _ [D#m] Mama played the guitar [B] then and daddy made a saw [F#] blade bend
And raindrops played the tin roof [C#] like a drum
_ [D#m] And I just kept on [B] dreaming that a song that I was singing
Takes me [F#] down the road to where I want to [C#] go
_ And now I [D#m] know [C#] that's a [F#] long, long road
Yes, [D#m] I know [C#]
that's a [F#] long, long road
_ _ Mmmm
_ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ Thank you! _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _