Chords for Readin', Rightin', Rt. 23

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They learned reading, writing, _ Route 23, [G] two jobs that lead away to the city [D] factory.
_ _ They didn't [A] know that that old highway [G] would lead them to a world of [D] misery. _ _ _
_ _ _ Have you ever been down Kentucky Way, say South Preston Fir?
Have you ever been up in Holler, or have you ever heard [G] a mountain man cough his life away,
digging that black [D] coal in those dark mines, those dark mines?
_ If you [C] had you might [G] just understand the reason that they left it all [D]
behind.
_ _ _ _ _ They learned reading, writing, _ Route [Bm] 23, [D]
[G] two jobs that lead away to the city [D] factory. _
_ They learned reading, writing, _ roads to the north [G] to the luxury of a country to coal miners [D] and hairpins.
_ They thought reading, writing, _ Route 23, [G] all the things they _ [D] had never seen. _
_ _ _ They [A] didn't know that that old highway [G] would lead them to a world [D] of misery. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Have you ever seen them flip kids in the car after work on Friday night,
pull up in a Holler about 2 a.m. like they were burning briars?
[G] They lived in Alamo, fed up that late to hold those little [D] brain kids in their _ arms, in their arms. _
[C] Yet I'm proud to say that I've been [G] blessed to hut by their wee little billy [D] car. _ _ _ _ _
They learned reading, writing, _ Route 23, two [G] jobs that lead away to the city [D] factory.
_ _ They learned reading, writing, _ roads to the north [G] to the luxury of a country to coal miners [D] and hairpins. _ _
They thought reading, writing, _ Route 23, all [G] the things they had _ _ [D] never seen.
_ _ They didn't [A] know that that old highway [G] would lead them to a world of [D] misery.
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It [A] turns out that old highway [G] led you to a world of [D] misery. _ _ _ _ _
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