Proclaimers - King Of The Road guitar chord

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Sent to archive by: rkh2@ukc.ac.uk (Ryan Harding)

Originally posted by: cseb@frodo.lfi.uni-hannover.de (Christian Sebeke)

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The Proclaimers' version may use different chords but then you might want to

transpose it for your voice anyway.

Here we go (taken from a greatest hits collection):

KING OF THE ROAD

(Roger Miller)

Bb            Eb           F              Bb  

  Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents,

               Eb            F

  No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes, ah but

Bb             Eb                  F         Bb

  Two hours of pushing broom buys an eight by twelve fourbit room,

               Eb                F            Bb

  I'm a man of means by no means, King of the Road

  

  

Bb              Eb             F            Bb

  Third box car midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine,

               Eb             F               Bb

  Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues, I smoke

              Eb           F                   Bb

  Old stogies I have found, short, but not too big around,

               Eb                F            Bb

  I'm a man of means by no means, King of the Road

  

         B                 E

  I know every engineer on every train,

  F#                      B

  All of the children and all of their names

                       E

  And every handout in every town

      F#

  And ev'ry lock that ain't locked when

  

  No one's around I sing ...

B             E            F#             B  

  Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents,

               E             F#

  No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes, ah but

B              E                   F#               B

  Two hours of pushing broom buys a eight by twelve fourbit room,

               E                 F#           B

  I'm a man of means by no means, King of the Road

rep. last verse