G		Em
You've long been on the open road
	      C		     D7
You've been sleeping in the rain
      G		      Em
From dirty words and muddy cells
       Am		      D7	
Your clothes are soiled and stained
	 G		    Em
But the dirty words of the mother cells
      C                D7
Will soon be judged insane
   G		  Em  
So only stop and rest yourself
     Am	            D   D7
And you'll be off again

     G              C
Oh, take off your thirsty boots
      G	        C
And stay for awhile
      G                Em    Am
Your feet are hot and weary      
              D7
From a dusty mile
     G           C 
And maybe I can make you laugh
     G            C
And maybe I can try
G               Em      Am
Looking for the evening
         D7             G     Em  Am  D  D7
And the morning in your eyes

      G		    Em
Then tell me of the ones you saw
    C		      D7
As far as you could see
   G		        Em
Across the plains from field to town
 Am		 D7	
Marching to be free
    G		    Em
And of the rusted prison gates
      C		    D7
That tumble by debris
      G		       Em
Like laughing children one by one
  Am                    D  D7
They look like you and me

     G              C
Oh, take off your thirsty boots
      G	        C
And stay for awhile
      G                Em    Am
Your feet are hot and weary      
              D7
From a dusty mile
     G           C 
And maybe I can make you laugh
     G            C
And maybe I can try
G               Em      Am
Looking for the evening
         D7             G     Em  Am  D  D7
And the morning in your eyes

    G		     Em
I know you are no stranger down
  C		  D7
Crooked rainbow trails
      G		             Em
From dancing cliffheads to shattered sills
     Am		     D7	
To slander shackled jails
           G		    Em
Where the voices drift up from below
     C		      D7
His walls are being scaled
    G		      Em
Yes all of this, and more my friend
      Am		D	D7
Your song shall not be failed

     G              C
Oh, take off your thirsty boots
      G	        C
And stay for awhile
      G                Em    Am
Your feet are hot and weary      
              D7
From a dusty mile
     G           C 
And maybe I can make you laugh
     G            C
And maybe I can try
G               Em      Am
Looking for the evening
         D7             G     Em  Am  D  D7
And the morning in your eyes
 
                                  Repeat chorus