Tom: G
G C
There’s an old gravel road
G D
following the section line,
G C
out where lives are held together
G D
with sweat and baling twine,
G C
where you rattle your bones on a tractor
G D
over thirty years old
G C
and there’s a mortgage and kids to be fed
G D G
out on Twelve Mile Road.
[Verse 2]
G C
Just a stretch of country
G D
the wind comes blowing through.
G C
The Homesteaders starved out and blew away
G D
Now there’s nobody out here but you.
G C
And you know someday it’s gonna turn around,
G D
but Lord, it turns so slow,
G C
and it ain’t rained since April
G D G
out on Twelve Mile Road.
[Chorus]
D G
Out on Twelve mile Road,
D G
lord it turns so slow.
C G Em
Hanging on to a ragged dream,
C D G
out on Twelve Mile Road
[Verse 3]
G C
You raise some hay, a few head of cows,
G D
you swing a hammer in town.
G C
You do everything you can by God do
G D
to keep your feet on the ground.
G C
‘Cuz if a man works hard enough
G D
he can turn that straw into gold
G C
Or ain’t that how it’s supposed to be,
G D G
out on Twelve Mile Road?
[Chorus]
D G
Out on Twelve mile Road,
D G
lord it turns so slow.
C G Em
Hanging on to a ragged dream,
C D G
out on Twelve Mile Road
[Verse 4]
G C
You hope for the day when the air is clean,
G D
the fences all run true,
G C
all of your worries have vanished like smoke,
G D
all the hard times are through.
G C
You’ll look down from the top of a hill
G D
and your dreams'll be there to hold.
G C
Ain’t that the way it’s supposed to be,
G D G
Out on Twelve Mile Road?
[Chorus]
D G
Out on Twelve mile Road,
D G
lord it turns so slow.
C G Em
Hanging on to a ragged dream,
C D G
out on Twelve Mile Road
D G
Out on Twelve mile Road,
D G
lord it turns so slow.
C G Em
And it ain't rained since April,
C D G
out on Twelve Mile Road
