| Em | |
| On a long and lonely highway east of Omaha |
| D | |
| You can | listen to the engine, moanin' out as one long song |
| Am | Em | |
| You can | think about the woman, or the girl you knew the night | before |
| Em | |
| And your thoughts will soon be wandering the way they always do |
| D | |
| When you're | riding sixteen hours and there's nothing much to do |
| Am | Em | |
| You | don't feel much like ridin', you just wish the trip was | through |
| Chorus |
| D | Em | |
| But here I | am, on the | road again |
| D | Em | |
| Here I | am, up on | stage |
| D | Am | |
| Here I | go, playing the | star again |
| C | D | Em | |
| There I | go, | turn the | page |
| Em | |
| You walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road |
| D | |
| And you | feel the eyes upon you, as you're shaking off the cold |
| Am | Em | |
| You | pretend it doesn't bother you, but you just want to | explode |
| Em | |
| Sometimes you hear 'em talkin', other times you can't |
| D | |
| All the | same old cliches is that a woman or a man |
| A | Em | |
| And you | always seem outnumbered, you dare not make a | stand |
| Chorus |
| D | Em | |
| But here I | am, on the | road again |
| D | Em | |
| Here I | am, up on | stage |
| D | Am | |
| Here I | go, playing the | star again |
| C | D | Em | |
| There I | go, | turn the | page |
| Em | |
| Out there in the spotlight, you're a million miles away |
| D | |
| Every ounce of energy you try to give away |
| Asus2 | Em | |
| And the | sweat pours from your body like the music that you | play |
| Em | |
| Later on that evening, as you lie awake in bed |
| Dsus2 | |
| Echoes of the amplifiers ringin' in your head |
| Am | Em | |
| And you | smoke the day's last cigarette, remembering what she | said |
| Chorus |
| D | Em | |
| But here I | am, on the | road again |
| D | Em | |
| Here I | am, up on | stage |
| D | Am | |
| Here I | go, playing the | star again |
| C | D | Em | |
| There I | go, | turn the | page |
Try alternating on your tonic notes (ie for the A chord hit the open A and E alternately) and build on that thru the song getting stronger as you go. Just how I like to play it, not how Seger does it...
i play it with a basic ,dw, paus, dw, up,up,dw,dw,up,dw,up,dw simple and sounds great
try a minor instead of a
I just started playing like a month ago and i know all four of these chords....plus like nine more this is perfect format and chords sound pretty close to me rhanks.
Just make it yours. change things if you want , give it something of you .
here is the intro tabs
|----14h15p14----------------15-14--------------------------------------|
|-------------15----12----12-------15----12-----------------------------|
|----------------14----14-------------14----14-12-11--------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------12-----------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------12-14-----------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
IF you're playing accoustic try picking the song. Em-64341234 D-43231234 A-53231234. Its just a basic picking pattern that works for a lot of songs. On this song try hitting the root note a little harder than the rest. Especially the e, make it really ring out. that lonesome e really sets the mood for the song.
if you strum the top 3 strings (GBE) one after the next (GBEBGBEBG), I think its pretty similar to the part that bob seger plays. an alternate fingering that works for the Em chord is 453 (4 on G, 5 on B, and 3 on E).
Correction Bob 'SEGER'
Lyrics are not right either