Текст песни с аккордами
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[Intro]
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[Verse]
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As the Sunday sun sets down on Reno, Nevada
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I'm not really a gambling man, but I'm quite partial to a flutter
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And if you're playing Black Jack, they'll let you drink for free
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And that sounds like a pretty good deal to me
E A
So I pull up to a table, and I sink my first Coors Light
E B
I get chatting to an old man, sat by my side
E A
He can't quite place my accent and he asks me where I'm from
E B E
Like many before he thinks that I'm Australian
E A
I tell him I'm from England, from Essex to be precise
E B
We both lose a couple of hands and sink some more Coors Light
E A
He asks me what I'm doing, so far away from home
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I tell him I've been singing on the road
[Chorus]
E A
He asks me where I've been
What I've seen
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And what I might have learnt
B E
Travelling on this giant piece of dirt
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I've seen the rivers and the mountains, the forests through the trees
B E
I've seen the deserts and canyons, I've seen the tumbleweed
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I watched the sunset of the west coast, with sand between my toes
B E
I've been East freezing my bollocks off, in six inches of snow
A E
I've seen the interstates and freeways, from my rental car
B E
Mostly though, I've seen a lot of bars
A B E
I've seen a few music venues and a, shit-tonne of bars
[Verse]
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London, Gatwick, JFK, Boston, Baltimore
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To the American Visionary Art Museum down the Appalachian Trail
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To the suburbs of Atlanta and the Gainesville BBQ
E B E
Where I ended in a karaoke bar doing Jimmy Buffet tunes
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Left onto the I10, the "Big Easy", New Orleans
E B
I played a bit of washboard with my main [...]
E A
I felt like Chris Christopherson, flat out in Baton Rouge
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When they let me sing some songs in the Red Dragon listening room
A E
In fact I've been singing songs every time I stop
B E
Somehow I'm calling this my job
[Chorus]
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I've heard the banjos and the trumpets, been to where the blues was born
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Danced to dubstep and to punk rock, and I shopped in record stores
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I read the Great American Novel, by the Great American Novelist
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And give me half a chance, I'll build myself a white picket fence
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Cause I love the American culture, its music, books and poetry
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And the wonderful Americans that I've met on my journey
[Verse]
E A
Flashback to the casino and the old man he said "Son
E B
Sounds like you've seen more of this country than I have ever done
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I come from Salt Lake City, that's where I was born and raised
E B E
I still live in Utah and I barely left the state
A E
But you still haven't told me what you've learnt
B E
Sounds like you're just driving round and getting drunk
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And it's not like you're any good at Blackjack either
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You haven't won a dollar since you've been here
[Chorus]
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I've seen casinos and the churches, the prisons and the shopping malls
B E
The ballparks and the stadiums, the junk-food drive-throughs
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The fast cars and the titty bars, the broken traffic lights
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The homeless and forgotten folk, downtown late at night
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And I've seen the foreign policy, the oily, bloody hands
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I've seen the police brutality sweep across the land
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And if there's one thing that I've learned
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It's that a dollar costs more than it's worth
A E
I didn't come in here to win
B E
I just came in for a drink
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