Turnpike Tom Chords by Steve Goodman
Tempo:
100.35 bpm
Chords used:
D
G
Em
F
Am
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[C] [Bb]
[D]
[G] [Gm] [D]
[G] [Em] [D]
First time I met old Turnpike Tom, sitting in a diner in Bloomington.
[G] He said, are you going my way?
[D] He had a sleeping bag and his hat was torn.
Both his thumbs were two feet long [G] from years of hitching on the highway.
[D] He [F] said, mister, [Em] won't you give me [Am] a ride?
[F] I'm a one-headed [Em] man looking for a place [Am] to
[A] hide.
[D] Oh, we finished the [G] coffee and we got in the
[D] car and we drove [G] off.
Hadn't gone [D] far when Tom began [A] to tell his
[D] sad story.
He said, along around 1942, buddy, I robbed
a bank in Kalamazoo [G] just to get enough money to marry my [D] true darlin'.
But she died when she heard what I had done ever since I've been on the [G] run.
Standing on the highway, [D] calling, [F] calling, mister, [Em] won't you give [Am] me a ride?
[F] I'm a one-headed [Em] man looking for a [Am] place to hide.
[A] [D] He said, now I'm getting [G] old and I'm ready to die.
[D] Too tired to [G] run and too sick to [D] try, and soon [A] I'll be hitching [D] upstairs in the Skyway.
[G] Oh, [D]
[G]
[D]
[G]
[D] play that again.
[G]
[D] She said, I can't pay you for the ride.
Just once before I [G] die, I'd like to do somebody a [D] favor.
Out of his pocket come a rusty old key along with a map and he give them to me.
[G] And then he said, here's an end to all your [D] labor.
[F] Way [Em] down in Greenboro, [Am] Tennessee, [F] in the back of [Em] Rusty's Roadside [Am] Cabaret.
[A] [D] There is twenty [G] thousand in unmarked [D] grain.
The money I [G] stole, that's in the machine
[D] that hangs on the [A] wall at Rusty's [D] Roadside Men's Room.
So three nights later at Rusty's door, I drank a beer and then I had one [G] more.
Then I headed for the treasure.
[D] I just locked, pulled, turned back, called and said, this machine was under a sign which [G] read,
sanitary, three [D] for a quarter.
So [F] I took out [Em] the key and I [Am] broke the lock.
[F] There to [Em] my bewilderment [Am] and shock.
[A] I [D] found a sign which [G] read, you've just been [D] had in a sanitary [G] way by certain pike [D] town.
The outlaw [A] with the fastest [D] sense of humor.
And if you meet someone with a troubled mind, you just give him the key and feed him the [G] lie.
Tell him his days will [D] soon be better.
He [F] said, mister, [E] you've been taking him [Am] for a ride.
[F] There ain't nothing [Em] but fool's gold [Am] here inside.
[A] [D] Oh, the real [G] gold that's inside us all.
[D] Remember [G] that you only call [D] for lies and [A] stories when [D] you want to.
[B]
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[D]
[G] [Gm] [D]
[G] [Em] [D]
First time I met old Turnpike Tom, sitting in a diner in Bloomington.
[G] He said, are you going my way?
[D] He had a sleeping bag and his hat was torn.
Both his thumbs were two feet long [G] from years of hitching on the highway.
[D] He [F] said, mister, [Em] won't you give me [Am] a ride?
[F] I'm a one-headed [Em] man looking for a place [Am] to
[A] hide.
[D] Oh, we finished the [G] coffee and we got in the
[D] car and we drove [G] off.
Hadn't gone [D] far when Tom began [A] to tell his
[D] sad story.
He said, along around 1942, buddy, I robbed
a bank in Kalamazoo [G] just to get enough money to marry my [D] true darlin'.
But she died when she heard what I had done ever since I've been on the [G] run.
Standing on the highway, [D] calling, [F] calling, mister, [Em] won't you give [Am] me a ride?
[F] I'm a one-headed [Em] man looking for a [Am] place to hide.
[A] [D] He said, now I'm getting [G] old and I'm ready to die.
[D] Too tired to [G] run and too sick to [D] try, and soon [A] I'll be hitching [D] upstairs in the Skyway.
[G] Oh, [D]
[G]
[D]
[G]
[D] play that again.
[G]
[D] She said, I can't pay you for the ride.
Just once before I [G] die, I'd like to do somebody a [D] favor.
Out of his pocket come a rusty old key along with a map and he give them to me.
[G] And then he said, here's an end to all your [D] labor.
[F] Way [Em] down in Greenboro, [Am] Tennessee, [F] in the back of [Em] Rusty's Roadside [Am] Cabaret.
[A] [D] There is twenty [G] thousand in unmarked [D] grain.
The money I [G] stole, that's in the machine
[D] that hangs on the [A] wall at Rusty's [D] Roadside Men's Room.
So three nights later at Rusty's door, I drank a beer and then I had one [G] more.
Then I headed for the treasure.
[D] I just locked, pulled, turned back, called and said, this machine was under a sign which [G] read,
sanitary, three [D] for a quarter.
So [F] I took out [Em] the key and I [Am] broke the lock.
[F] There to [Em] my bewilderment [Am] and shock.
[A] I [D] found a sign which [G] read, you've just been [D] had in a sanitary [G] way by certain pike [D] town.
The outlaw [A] with the fastest [D] sense of humor.
And if you meet someone with a troubled mind, you just give him the key and feed him the [G] lie.
Tell him his days will [D] soon be better.
He [F] said, mister, [E] you've been taking him [Am] for a ride.
[F] There ain't nothing [Em] but fool's gold [Am] here inside.
[A] [D] Oh, the real [G] gold that's inside us all.
[D] Remember [G] that you only call [D] for lies and [A] stories when [D] you want to.
[B]
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ First time I met old Turnpike Tom, sitting in a diner in Bloomington.
[G] He said, are you going my way?
[D] _ _ He had a sleeping bag and his hat was torn.
Both his thumbs were two feet long [G] from years of hitching on the highway. _
[D] _ _ He [F] said, mister, [Em] won't you give me [Am] a ride?
_ _ [F] I'm a one-headed [Em] man looking for a place [Am] to
[A] hide.
[D] Oh, we finished the [G] coffee and we got in the
[D] car and we drove [G] off.
Hadn't gone [D] far when Tom began [A] to tell his
[D] sad story.
_ He said, along around 1942, buddy, I robbed
a bank in Kalamazoo [G] just to get enough money to marry my [D] true darlin'.
But she died when she heard what I had done ever since I've been on the [G] run.
Standing on the highway, [D] calling, _ _ [F] calling, mister, [Em] won't you give [Am] me a ride?
_ [F] I'm a one-headed [Em] man looking for a [Am] place to hide.
[A] _ [D] He said, now I'm getting [G] old and I'm ready to die.
[D] Too tired to [G] run and too sick to [D] try, and soon [A] I'll be hitching [D] upstairs in the Skyway. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ Oh, [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ play that again. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ She said, I can't pay you for the ride.
Just once before I [G] die, I'd like to do somebody a [D] favor.
_ _ Out of his pocket come a rusty old key along with a map and he give them to me.
[G] And then he said, here's an end to all your [D] labor.
_ _ _ [F] Way [Em] down in Greenboro, [Am] Tennessee, _ _ [F] in the back of [Em] Rusty's Roadside [Am] Cabaret.
_ [A] _ [D] There is twenty [G] thousand in unmarked [D] grain.
The money I [G] stole, that's in the machine
[D] that hangs on the [A] wall at Rusty's [D] Roadside Men's Room.
_ So three nights later at Rusty's door, I drank a beer and then I had one [G] more.
Then I headed for the treasure.
[D] _ _ _ I just locked, pulled, turned back, called and said, this machine was under a sign which [G] read,
sanitary, three [D] for a quarter.
_ So [F] I took out [Em] the key and I [Am] broke the lock.
_ _ [F] There to [Em] my bewilderment [Am] and shock.
[A] I [D] found a sign which [G] read, you've just been [D] had in a sanitary [G] way by certain pike [D] town.
The outlaw [A] with the fastest [D] sense of humor.
_ _ And if you meet someone with a troubled mind, you just give him the key and feed him the [G] lie.
Tell him his days will [D] soon be better.
He [F] said, mister, [E] you've been taking him [Am] for a ride.
_ [F] There ain't nothing [Em] but fool's gold [Am] here inside.
_ [A] _ [D] Oh, the real [G] gold that's inside us all.
[D] Remember [G] that you only call [D] for lies and [A] stories when [D] you want to. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ First time I met old Turnpike Tom, sitting in a diner in Bloomington.
[G] He said, are you going my way?
[D] _ _ He had a sleeping bag and his hat was torn.
Both his thumbs were two feet long [G] from years of hitching on the highway. _
[D] _ _ He [F] said, mister, [Em] won't you give me [Am] a ride?
_ _ [F] I'm a one-headed [Em] man looking for a place [Am] to
[A] hide.
[D] Oh, we finished the [G] coffee and we got in the
[D] car and we drove [G] off.
Hadn't gone [D] far when Tom began [A] to tell his
[D] sad story.
_ He said, along around 1942, buddy, I robbed
a bank in Kalamazoo [G] just to get enough money to marry my [D] true darlin'.
But she died when she heard what I had done ever since I've been on the [G] run.
Standing on the highway, [D] calling, _ _ [F] calling, mister, [Em] won't you give [Am] me a ride?
_ [F] I'm a one-headed [Em] man looking for a [Am] place to hide.
[A] _ [D] He said, now I'm getting [G] old and I'm ready to die.
[D] Too tired to [G] run and too sick to [D] try, and soon [A] I'll be hitching [D] upstairs in the Skyway. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ Oh, [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ play that again. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ She said, I can't pay you for the ride.
Just once before I [G] die, I'd like to do somebody a [D] favor.
_ _ Out of his pocket come a rusty old key along with a map and he give them to me.
[G] And then he said, here's an end to all your [D] labor.
_ _ _ [F] Way [Em] down in Greenboro, [Am] Tennessee, _ _ [F] in the back of [Em] Rusty's Roadside [Am] Cabaret.
_ [A] _ [D] There is twenty [G] thousand in unmarked [D] grain.
The money I [G] stole, that's in the machine
[D] that hangs on the [A] wall at Rusty's [D] Roadside Men's Room.
_ So three nights later at Rusty's door, I drank a beer and then I had one [G] more.
Then I headed for the treasure.
[D] _ _ _ I just locked, pulled, turned back, called and said, this machine was under a sign which [G] read,
sanitary, three [D] for a quarter.
_ So [F] I took out [Em] the key and I [Am] broke the lock.
_ _ [F] There to [Em] my bewilderment [Am] and shock.
[A] I [D] found a sign which [G] read, you've just been [D] had in a sanitary [G] way by certain pike [D] town.
The outlaw [A] with the fastest [D] sense of humor.
_ _ And if you meet someone with a troubled mind, you just give him the key and feed him the [G] lie.
Tell him his days will [D] soon be better.
He [F] said, mister, [E] you've been taking him [Am] for a ride.
_ [F] There ain't nothing [Em] but fool's gold [Am] here inside.
_ [A] _ [D] Oh, the real [G] gold that's inside us all.
[D] Remember [G] that you only call [D] for lies and [A] stories when [D] you want to. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _