G    C                                                G
Moses pain takes your bag and head on in to the city
G    C                                           G
It looks like they could use another troubadour
G     Dm                    C                           G
All the fair ladies there, they'll be begging for mercy
G     Dm                    C                           G
Don't forget your chambermaid she's waiting on the seventh floor

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They wanna show you to high cotton when you sing about slavery
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They wanna sell and reproduce your golden morgues
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They wanna get down to the bottom of what it is that propells you
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They'll never know that hard luck road you've been on

[Verse]
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They just remember that country doctor with the twitching eyelids
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The one who showed you, Moses, how you where gonna get to heaven
G            Dm                    C                      G
One who brought you your mothers world just to scrap it and sing it
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And the one who you will meet, Moses, when you make a bad call

[Verse]
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One made you see that maiden in the doorway
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She was summoning you to travel on loves sweet two lane highway
G            Dm                    C                      G
Just remember the art of war and them affairs down in Eden
G     Dm                    C                                      G
Don't become the type of person that you told me you would never become

[Verse]
G        C                             G
And there in the paradise when you put your pin to the page
G      C                                               G
And beauty never knew the world until you came of age
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There clowns whispering if thunder whispering with rain
G     Dm                                        C
Keep writing those sweet rugged melodies of love
C                                      G     C    G
If Moses' allright the legend of pain

[Outro]
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  Keep on riding            X 7