The Ride

THE RIDE 
by David Allan Coe 

Capo 3 

Intro: G  D  A   

A                                   
Well I was thumbing from Montgomery. 
C 
Had my guitar on my back. 
D                                           
When a stranger stopped beside me  
A 
in an antique Cadillac. 
A                               
He was dressed like 1950  
C 
half-drunk and hollow-eyed 
         D                     
He said "It's a long walk to Nashville  
                  A 
would you like a ride, son." 
 A                                
I sat down in the front seat.  
     C         
He turned on the radio and them 
D                                             
sad old songs comin' out of them speakers  
A 
was solid country gold. 
 A                                                       
Then I noticed the stranger was ghost white pale  
         C        
when he asked me for a light 
      D                                          A 
And I knew there was somthin' strange about this ride. 



[Refrão]
         G                          D                      
He said "Drifter can you make folks cry 
                A 
when you play and sing? 
         A                        
Have you paid your dues? Can you moan the blues? 
        E 
Can you bend them guitar strings?" 
         G                     D                  A       
He said "Boy can you make folks feel what you feel inside 
                 G                    
CAuse if you're big star bound  
           D                      A 
let me warn ya' it's a long, hard ride." 


        A                               
Then he cried just south of Nashville  
        C                     
and he turned that car around. 
       D                               A   
He said "This is where you get off boy 

'cause I'm goin' back to Alabam 
A                                     
As I stepped out of that old Cadillac  
      C 
I said "Mister, many thanks." 
D 
He said "You don't have to call me Mister, Mister. 
A 
The whole world called me Hank." 

      
Chorus: 


                  G                  
'Cause if you're big star bound  
        D                      A 
let me warn ya' it's a long, hard ride."